Tomorrow Never Comes by Orestes
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As many may know, a couple days ago Discovery launched. It was the first maned space mission from the US since the Columbia Disaster. After that accident, our goverenment grounded NASA from any maned missions until they could be assured it would never happen again. I got to thinking about that, and its a little hypocritical don't you think? How many airplanes crash, killing far more people; the govenment doesn't ground all air travel now does it? Or what about lifes lost in Iraq due to malfuntioning choppers and other equipment? Seems what they want to be 'safe' is selective. Dwelling on this I thought of this image. An extra-safe astronaut doing his work on a moon much like ours, sees a flash and looks up at an earth much like ours, to see the horror as a massive nuclear plant explodes, which if had been scurtinized as much as his space program for safety, would have never happened.
Anywho, just some of my ramblings. :P
Now the tech stuff. Render 6400 x 4800, Planet made my hand in Photoshop CS. The lander is from www.strafe.com/2001, (I built the dish on it) the space suit is Sixus1's TSS freebie. Both rendered in Bryce and PW'ed in with Photoshop.
Have a great day!
Comments (38)
gradient
Ouch!...awesome render, fantastic planet and postwork!
HonorMac
"Hey... I can see my house from he-- Oh, Crap!!" Another stunning piece of work, Sir. I love the exaggerated effect of the smoke cloud and explosion... And, of course, the level of detail overall is simply delicious. Despite pseveral people missing your point and railing about the age of the shuttle or the relative cost per mission, I agree with your base assertion. Holding ourselves to a blindingly small margin of error in space missions holds us back to a degree that's simply criminal. How much further would we have reached into the solar system if we only demanded space travel be as safe as air travel? How much further yet if only as safe as automobile travel? How much more advanced would our methods be by now, and how much less expensive per mission? And the perverse thing...? Our safety record would actually look -better-, at least at first glance! If you only send 10 people into space, one fatality gives you a hideous 10% mortality rate... If we dropped the standard to auto travel level, we'd have thousands and thousands of people in space by now, and a mortality rate of perhaps a tiny fraction of 1% per annum. And, most importantly, it's worth it. In spades. Sorry to re-rant in your comments area.. Thanks for the opportunity and inspiration to do so. :-)
Pixara
Superb!
Svarg
Fantastic work! Your art speaks quite clearly of your talent and taste. Space is the most forbidding place humans have ever been and probablt shall ever go. As long as we keep going there some of us shall die in the effort. To think we could make it absolutely safe is arrogant beyond measure. But go we must. It is our nature and I am glad of it. Great Image!
RealUser
wonderful spacerender and great work in ps
gattone_blu
Splendid image
QUEST-CHRONICLER
I'm no expert on the NASA Space Programs, but I do have my own personal input on this matter. I know that they are expensive & can be made safer than they currently are, but red tape and financial costs, might play a factor in preventing further safety advancements. In general though, perhaps the U.S Government should spend more money on more essential products & services, rather that several billions of dollars on the Military Industrial Complex & on outdated NASA Space programs. All My opinions, Mind You...... An interesting, yet ominous 3D image. Nice point of view from space. Good work showing the astronaut & the craft on the moon.
DukeNukem2005
The perfect image of space. I too very much like to represent space.