简介:Is it humankind's greatest achievement 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space. It is the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a plutonium generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a Golden Record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. In all likelihood Voyager will outlive humanity and all our creations. It could be the only thing to mark our existence. Perhaps some day an alien will find it and wonder. The story of Voyager is an epic of human achievement, personal drama and almost miraculous success. Launched 16 days apart in Autumn 1977, the twin Voyager space probes have defied all the odds, survived countless near misses and almost 40 years later continue to beam revolutionary information across unimaginable distances. With less computing power than a ...
简介:Dutch immigrant, Harry deLeyer, journeyed to the United States after World War II and developed a transformative relationship with a broken down Amish plow horse he rescued off a slaughter truck bound for the glue factory. Harry paid eighty dollars for the horse and named him Snowman. In less than two years, Harry Snowman went on to win the triple crown of show jumping, beating the nations blue bloods and they became famous and traveled around the world together. Their chance meeting at a Pennsylvania horse auction saved them both and crafted a friendship that lasted a lifetime. Eighty-six year old Harry tells their Cinderella love story firsthand, as he continues to train on today's show jumping circuit.
简介:在乔布斯离世后,全世界的人们用各种方式纪念这位富有远见的天才,而授权版乔布斯传记作者Walter Isaacson也揭示了许多关于乔布斯私人生活的细节,PBS电视台将于11月2日播放纪念乔布斯的新纪录片“Steve Jobs - One Last Thing”,片中将会将会有大量曾经与乔布斯合作的采访片段。 其中包括苹果联合创始人Ronald Wayne,投资NeXT电脑的Ross Perot,“华尔街日报”主要技术专栏作家Walt Mossberg,黑眼豆豆乐队制作人will.i.am,苹果第一代鼠标设计师Dean Hovey,PBS系列片主持人Robert Cringely,里德大学书法教授Robert Palladino以及介绍Woz和Jobs相识的Bill Fernandez。 该纪录片还会包含从未播放过的1994年采访乔布斯的片段。乔布斯对生活的理解塑造了他的人格,这也使他为很多行业带来革命性变革。Steve Jobs - One Last Thing”将于下周三,11月2日晚上10点在美国的PBS电视台播出。
简介:To the outside world Joanne is just a book-store owner, but the Conspiracy knows different. She's dangerous. She's a bellwether a quiet leader who is well on her way to being her whole self. When they kidnap her to break her to make her conform, they discover that Joanne is something so much more than even she ever knew. Joanne is a feminist, one-room, one-character elevated genre thriller. It is a modern rite of passage story which most women have to go through to become a whole human being How does one be oneself in the face of massive misogyny and hatred (both overt and institutionalized). It is also the world's first one-person film (a movie with only one on-screen character) that features a woman.
简介:Award winning writer, celebrity Mark Travis seeks inspiration by returning to his hometown. What he finds is not what he expected. Her name is Holly. What Holly would do, is like nothing Mark has ever experienced before.
简介:一帮老友驾驶一艘豪华游艇出海为好友庆生,酒足饭饱之后,大家开始一个个跳入海中游泳。患有恐水症的艾米(苏珊·梅·普拉特 Susan May Pratt 饰)被抛入海水之后引起一阵恐怖,大家想赶紧把她送回船上,可是这才发现居然没人记得放下梯子。船身太高,一伙人想尽办法都不能爬上船去。此时,留在船上的只有一个婴儿,蓝天碧海对于悬浮于海面的六个老友来说变成了绝境,死亡的阴影在满是恐慌的人们之间迅速蔓延。看着好友一个个死去,一息尚存的人们仍然在寻找着最后的生机。暮色将至,一场暴风雨即将来临,是否有人能够穿越死亡的阴霾爬上游艇,生与死的较量在茫茫海面悲情上演。