The Last Days on Earth

The Story


Damon Miller is a young filmmaker who lives in London with his girl friend. She's pregnant. He's been fascinated by Asteroids and Comets. He is doing his research to find out more about possible threats from outer space, mainly to make a movie about this topic. One day he's invited to meet with a Government agency, the UK SPACE AGENCY. They tell him that the world will End in two months and that they are currently creating a video archive to preserve images from Earth before it's destruction. The planet will be hit by two Asteroids large enough to End life. Over the past years, several World Governments have come together and secretly built a space station that can house up to 100.000 people. They ask Damon to capture the last days on Earth on video, they are especially interested in people's reactions when they learn about the End of the world, a few days prior to impact. He'll become the "Architect of the past" by making HIS view of the world, THE way future generations will see the people on Earth. What an absurd idea, he thinks at first. But in return he can choose 5 people to survive the Apocalypse and live in the space station. [It sounds like a far fetched idea. But think about it again. Wouldn't it be spooky and fascinating to see actual video footage from 65 Million years ago when the Dinosaurs were wiped out? Or imagine we would have seen real video footage from the rise and fall of the Roman Empire!] You can receive a long treatment and Cast&Crew information if you send an email to g.richters@me.com I am always happy to answer your questions. But here are some details every person on this planet should be familiar with:




Facts


- Currently there are over 400,000 NEOs (Near Earth Objects) accounted for, that orbit close to Earth.




- Currently we only account for 40% of all NEOs. - Our annual budget to detect, catalogue and protect ourselves from space threats is $10 Million. Facebook is currently spending over $700 Million per year, just to give a little example.




- We currently have no evacuation plan in place, should a NEO hit Earth.




- We currently have over 20 different technologies available "in theory" that can protect us from NEOs, such as divert them from their current path. But none of those technologies are even close to their development phase.




- In 2008 a NEO hit the Sudan desert. It slipped through our radar and was detected 16 hours before impact. If it's target had been New York City, the entire state would have been wiped out with no time to evacuate.




There is hope!

We are not talking about investments that will go into the Billions of US $$$ but with our current budgetary restrains there is not much we can do to defend ourselves. The worst thing we could do (and this is currently our biggest protection) is to try and "nuke" the space objects (exactly what they did in the movie DEEP IMPACT). Such an impact would smash the Asteroid into Millions of pieces. Each piece can destroy the entire New York City area and these pieces would rain down everywhere, in MILLIONS, it would be out of control.

What will happen to my money?

We will be shooting everything on two Canon 5D MK IIs which are Full HD Video cameras that are used in movies such as George Lucas new RED TAILS and the popular TV Show Dr. House. We already own these camera +lenses, a steadicam, an ABC camera crane, tripods etc.



Your money would be used to rent additional locations, pay for the actors, buy food and for some additional equipment.




This film will be a wake up call but I NEED YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS Please help me make this movie into a reality.




I will never forget it.




Thank You!

Grigorij Richters

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[pinaddtv]

@acesonfire No, Discovery Channel. I left their watermark.

[pinaddtv]

@gramsci1111 Yes, on th one hand you are absolutely right. You know I think of war as a "luxury" which we don't have right now. The world should come together, and secure this planet first. Then we can play silly games.

We are currently aware of 2% of all the space objects that are orbiting close to Earth. Anyone of those objects can wipe out a city the size of NYC.

[TWsplashify]

@drdjjl I wonder if you know how many close calls we had with asteroids in the past decade.

[goUT25]

@pinaddtv That definitely not a correct statistic. US ground asteroid detection systems have detected and are actively tracking 84% of asteroids close to earth. The other 16% are too small and insignificant to see or even worry about currently.

[mikeaa000]

first 00:22 secs love the song already and liked! ;)

[LegoNano810]

WERE ALL GONNA DIE NOT the world will end in like,2019 jeez

[CristyFIare]

but do not say shit. just now. you grew up, you're not a kid anymore. do not see that you're ridiculous?

[kell490]

I thought it was a 50km impactor not 500km, and wasn't that to size of the one that caused the "The great dying" Permian-Triassic extinction 250Mil years ago which killed all life and allowed the dinosaurs to evolve.

[monkrys6110]

i searched up mac miller and this came up whaatt???

[ReqzMelody1]

WILL THIS ACTUALLY HAPPEN

[Bloodgod40]

@Bloodgod40

In reality the biggest theoretical impactors today are no more than about 4 - 5 miles across. Big enough to give a very nasty global winter effect, and possibly to cause large scale crop failures that would kill millions of people through starvation. Big enough to create megatsunamis killing millions along facing continental coasts. But not enough to cover the entire earth in a fiery thousand degree vaporized rock atmosphere. Not enough to boil away the oceans either.

[Bloodgod40]

I hate hate hate that silly video of a giant 500 mile wide dwarf planet impacting the earth in the west pacific. Almost everyone has lost sight of the original context of that clip - it was about the kind of truly gigantic impacts that would have occurred in the early solar system, more than 4 billion years ago. It depicted what such an impact would look like today for familiarity's sake - but this also unfortunately gives the false impression that impacts of this size are still possible today.