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When this movie was fist released, music from American Beauty was used as the soundtrack.  It seems as though somebody threw a copyright fit, because none of the download sources that I try have the music anymore, and I thought it fit the animation beautifully.

Does anyone still have the original movie with the music from American Beauty, at a relatively high resolution?  I would appreciate it so much if someone could hook me up.  We can do an AIM transfer or I can set up an FTP or something.  I just REALLY miss the original movie/music.  I used to get really emotional watching it because the music was just RIGHT for it.

So yeah.  Please someone help me out here?

how about posting the submitted entries so far?  it would be fun to see what people have come up with

some more info here about it

http://www.angelfire.com/on2/daviddarli … latestnews

Interesting idea, but if you're going to build a space theme park, it definitely needs to be based on something a lot more interesting to the public eye than Orion.  Sure, WE all love the Orion concept and we'd all love to see it come to fruition, but come ON, this thing would never get financed as a theme park.  You're talking about building a fully functional starship (in theory) but using it as a tourist attraction.  Your enthusiasm for Orion is heartening, but sorry... this just isn't interesting in the long run to the average money spender.  Its like selling tickets to tour an aircraft carrier or submarine.  It would be a better idea to design a space theme park that would actually attract visitors, then use the profits from THAT to build a REAL Orion that you can actually launch.

i gotta say... very interesting!  the equator station temperature actually reached about 34 degrees F!

good job on the site

First of all, I'm the first one to jump up and say 'Lets build and launch an Orion!'  I don't mean for my comments to be dissected and rebutted as though I were one of these ignorant fraidy cats who are scared of a little nuclear creativity.

I don't mean its ludicrous in principle or practice, only ludicrous in a PR sense.  It just ain't gonna happen, not right away, and definitely not while groups like Greenpeace and extreme leftists have any lobbying power.  I mean... if people are going to raise a stink about Cassini because it has a nuclear power source, they DAMN sure will raise a major sh*t storm about having nukes detonated on the planet to launch a spacecraft.  Sorry, thats just the way it is for now.   

However, I for one am all for Orion.  If by some chance a miracle occurs and this thing ever really gets built (I still think building the thing in orbit and then launching it would be WAY more feasable in a PR sense) ... bring on the nuclear put put boat!

LOL you sound like Anne, the Red Radical from Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy.
Anywho...
Auqakah, have you read those books?  They're steeped in just enough science to make a 200 year complete terraforming of Mars sound 'almost' plausable. 
Here's to hoping   :;):