The ISS was designed to perform scientific experiments in microgravity, a condition which is naturally not present on the moon.
A space elevator is totally infeasible at the moment. It is absolutely safe to predict that none of us will see such an installation realized in her or his lifetime.
Wrong, most films are shot open matte today to allow for a TV-Version without black bars. This method is not compatible with Panavision or Cinemascope. Most cinemas don't even have anamorphotic projection lenses any more.
The compression argument makes sense if they really crunch down a whole movie to 5 gigs.
The resolution of 35mm projection is amazingly bad. The area available for one image on film is just 16mm * 22mm, which is cropped to about 12mm * 22mm due to the widescreen format. That is a surface area of just 264 mm^2 on film, more than three times less than standard slides you take with your SLR camera. I don't know the technical details of the digital system in discussion but it should be no problem to beat 35mm film digitally. When it comes to IMAX, it's another story...
It would have been a worse idea to keep the Russians out as they provide the cheapest and most reliable transportation system for supplies and the only human transportation system operable right now. It was never intended to use the ISS as a starting point for planetary missions.
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The ISS was designed to perform scientific experiments in microgravity, a condition which is naturally not present on the moon. A space elevator is totally infeasible at the moment. It is absolutely safe to predict that none of us will see such an installation realized in her or his lifetime.
Wrong, most films are shot open matte today to allow for a TV-Version without black bars. This method is not compatible with Panavision or Cinemascope. Most cinemas don't even have anamorphotic projection lenses any more. The compression argument makes sense if they really crunch down a whole movie to 5 gigs.
The resolution of 35mm projection is amazingly bad. The area available for one image on film is just 16mm * 22mm, which is cropped to about 12mm * 22mm due to the widescreen format. That is a surface area of just 264 mm^2 on film, more than three times less than standard slides you take with your SLR camera. I don't know the technical details of the digital system in discussion but it should be no problem to beat 35mm film digitally.
When it comes to IMAX, it's another story...
It would have been a worse idea to keep the Russians out as they provide the cheapest and most reliable transportation system for supplies and the only human transportation system operable right now.
It was never intended to use the ISS as a starting point for planetary missions.