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Red Planet
2000 · Film · 106 min
Directed by Antony Hoffman
Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
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> Val Kilmer film Red Planet-
Actually this is the one I was thinking of ...
... the one were the guy ludicrously jumps between orbiting crafts at the last minute, and, thus, makes it back to Earth.-
Gotta say I found it entertaining.-
This was also a plot point used much before The Martian; in the 2000 Val Kilmer film Red Planet- stranded astronauts make their way to the spot where Pathfinder's 'Sojourner' rover rests, in order to pull it's radio and use it to communicate an SOS with the orbiting station.
It's been a long time since I've seen that (widely panned as not-very-good) movie, but I feel I remember a line about the little rover using an 'off the shelf computer modem' - this is actually true, the little rover communicated back to the Pathfinder base station with a straight up off-the-shelf RS232 9600bps wireless transparent modem link. [0] [1] I remember that detail as it showed that, even though the movie itself was... uhhh... interesting, science-wise, it clearly had someone in an advisory role that knew something about real JPL hardware on Mars at the time.
[0] https://urgentcomm.com/public-safety/data-communications-from-pathfinder-to-public-safety
[1] http://www.iki.rssi.ru/mpfmirror/rovercom/itworks.html#rover-radio
I just watched Real Genius the other day. It's one of my favorite Val Kilmer movies. Another one that seems to be forgotten was Red Planet [1] I would like to see the robot dog developers make something closer to AMEE envisioned in that movie.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTcOOzD-JQs
A little more recent:
https://youtu.be/oJGJEepIOt0?t=38
It's from Red Planet (2000):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199753/
That dribbling and re-grasping? oh man. Ugly bags of mostly water should be very afraid of the future. Meatbags are able to achieve similar level of skill, but not repeatability and endurance, not to mention the scale. Think about any Jackie Chan movie. We have one Jackie, and it takes him >20 takes to get some things right, but in the future we can have an army of robot Jackie Chans getting every single movement right at the first try.
Forget Bigdog or Atlas, turns out future will be exactly like AMEE from Red Planet.
That IS Guerilla Strategy then. Crazy. I hope he has videos about it and publishes these. He should install a 6th Alarm that shoots an electrified fisher-net and can shoot with a taser gun, in case the owner is detected too near.
It's interesting that I learned what guerilla strategy is from a robot in a science fiction movie.
Scene from the movie "Red Planet" from the year 2000: http://youtu.be/GltSAI25gaA?t=5s
Story in this scene: The reason why the AMEE didn't kill the Astronauts, was because it wanted leave a wounded back, to demotivate the moral of the others, so that they choose worse strategies to fight against AMEE's plans. One of the Astronauts asked, why didn't she kill all of us and only wound him. The other guy said: It's because she knows all about "Guerilla Strategy" and she applies that to reach her goals. She punctuated him, so that he will die, but slowly, which is to break our moral.