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...Passengers experience 4 min. of weightlessness ? Cabin holds six passengers ? Pilots...
...huge turbojet launch plane. Then SpaceShipTwo drops away and rockets off into space at 3,500 m.p.h. on its laughing-gas engine. Aboard the spaceship the two pilots will cut the rockets and the ship will coast up to 80 miles, well outside the atmosphere. For 4 min., the six passengers (now astronauts!) can unstrap and float weightless around the cabin. Earth will look like a shiny ball with white swirls surrounded by a totally black sky. Diving back into the atmosphere will be a wild ride, peaking at nearly 6 Gs--twice the rush you feel on the average...
...Branson have 100 engineers looking at new technology for both orbital and suborbital flights as well as lunar flybys in a "glass bubble." On Necker, the two men pored over ideas for a plane that would fly orbitally, cutting flying time between New York City and London to 20 min. once in orbit...
Originally, of course, every movie was a short. The first narrative film, The Great Train Robbery, made in 1903, was a 10-min. Western. But advances in technology and changes in viewing habits meant that by the '60s, shorts had become the currency of film schools and festivals, and by 2005 they had lost so much pop-culture clout that short-subject Oscar winners had to accept their awards in their seats, with their backs to much of the audience. "Next year they're gonna give out Oscars in the parking lot," joked host Chris Rock...
...every filmmaker's dream, really," says Hertzfeldt, whose 17-min. movie is playing at the Animation Show, a festival touring the U.S. "Produce your own stories, work largely alone and answer to nobody." Ari Sandel, who's nominated for West Bank Story, his film-school master's thesis, puts its appeal another way: "Look, if it's bad, it's over in 10 minutes...