A Special Movie Presentation: Silent Running (1972)

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The movie is a day late as I was occupied with installing left upper and lower control arms on the junk car that I drive. The right control arms are next. probably in a few days.

 Anyway - here is SILENT RUNNING, a flick from 1972, starring Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, and Jesse Vint.

 In the future, all plant life on Earth is becoming extinct. As many specimens as possible have been preserved in a series of enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes, attached to a large spaceship named Valley Forge, forming part of a fleet of American Airlines space freighters, currently just outside the orbit of Saturn.

 Why? Who knows - it's a plot device of sorts, I reckon. Heating those motherfuckers would cost a fortune, not to mention that the sunlight at the orbit of Saturn can't run solar cells worth a good goddamn, let alone have the energy to support photosynthesis. Suspension of disbelief is definitely needed for this flick, but it is a pretty good movie.

 Freeman Lowell, one of four crewmen aboard, is the resident botanist and ecologist who carefully maintains a variety of plants for their eventual return to Earth and the reforestation of the planet. Lowell spends most of his time in the domes, both cultivating the crops and attending to the animal life.

LINK TO MOVIE:

https://ok.ru/video/327939590663









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