{"id":7108,"date":"2013-10-02T02:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T06:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2013-10-02T02:09:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T06:09:34","slug":"space-flights-acts-of-self-sacrifice-and-strange-sonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7108","title":{"rendered":"Space Flights, Acts of Self-Sacrifice, and Strange Sonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/EuropaReport_BR_b.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4320\" title=\"EuropaReport_BR_b\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/EuropaReport_BR_b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Although <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/e\/4113_EuropaReport.htm\">Europa Report<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7073\">M<\/a>] (Magnolia) doesn\u2019t hit shelves  until next Tuesday, here\u2019s an early review of this fairly ambitious sci-fi  found footage &#8216;documentary&#8217; which retraces through onboard and external  surveillance cameras the fate of the first privately funded mission to find  microbial life on Jupiter\u2019s frozen moon Europa.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been a space &amp; sci-fi fan for years, and getting a  chance to see Europa\u2019s epidermis of glacier-like ice, even as imaginative CGI,  is fun. Sebastian Cordero\u2019s film has some flaws, but the film is still worth a  peek for genre fans wanting a sci-fi tale with a little more scientific  substance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Gravity2013_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4318\" title=\"Gravity2013_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Gravity2013_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Also uploaded is Steven Price\u2019s experimental-styled  impression of deep space as \u2018heard\u2019 by Sandra Bullock in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/g\/CD_0469_Gravity2013.htm\">Gravity<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7069\">M<\/a>] when she\u2019s expunged from the  safety of the Space Station. I\u2019m avoiding specific details of the film because  I want to see Alfonso Cuaron\u2019s ambitious film without an preconceived ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I\u2019ll catch it IMAX 3D is up in the air, since I\u2019m one of those wusses  who can\u2019t handle an IMAX camera strapped to the from of a plane, skidoo, or  rollercoaster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SpaceSounds.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4317\" title=\"SpaceSounds\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SpaceSounds-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Price\u2019s score is available from Water Tower Music, and for  those interested in hearing actual space sounds, Don Gurnett, a professor at  the University of Iowa\u2019s Department of Physics and Astronomy has archives some  \u2018favourites\u2019 in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu\/space-audio\/sounds\/\" >gallery <\/a>that features the sounds with spectrographic video.<\/p>\n<p>You can also read the latest thoughts from NASA&#8217;s Mars Curiosity Rover\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarsCuriosity\" >via Twitter<\/a> , but only when the U.S. Government&#8217;s shutdown has ended&#8230;. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh reviews of space exploration media in the form of Steven Price&#8217;s score for Gravity (Water Tower Music) and Sebastian Cordero&#8217;s ambitious found footage sci-fi documentary, Europa Report (Magnolia), plus links to actual space sounds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2242,2240,2244,2255,2241,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1QE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}