Thursday 12 November 2009 at 12:00 am - November Monthly Meeting - Blast! The Movie
Posted by: Michael Cook Category: Monthly Meetings
When: Thursday 12 November 2009 at 12:00 am Ends: Thursday 12 November 2009 at 02:00 am
Location: Whitby Library - Central Branch Meeting Room 1 A/B 405 Dundas Street West Whitby, Ontario
The DRAA will be hosting the screening of Blast!, a high energy film about cosmological research, at its regular monthly meeting on November 11.
From the blastthemovie.com web site . . .
"Filmmaker Paul Devlin follows the story of his brother, Mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists hoping to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon.
Their adventure takes them from Arctic Sweden to Inuit polar bear country in Canada, where catastrophic failure forces the team to try all over again on the desolate ice in Antarctica. No less than the understanding of the evolution and origins of our Universe is at stake on this exciting escapade that seeks to answer humankind's most basic question, How did we get here?
BLAST! is about the crazy life of scientists. Their professional obsessions, personal and family sacrifices, and philosophical and religious questioning all give emotional resonance to a spectacular and suspenseful story of space exploration."
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