Planetes impressions
I got the Planetes DVD set for New Year. Major first impression: the only anime — scratch that, the only sci-fi movie or series that I’ve ever seen — that gets spaceflight science more-or-less right. Weightlessness, changing your speed to change your orbit, decompression sickness, radiation poisoning, and effects of low gravity on the human body are all dealt with pretty realistically. The astronauts even wear diapers and urinate into hoses.
The series starts of pretty slow, but sometime around Episode 6, things really pick up and the plot starts drawing you in. What I’ve seen thus far definitely deserves watching.
PS: Russian->Japanese transliteration is weird. Somehow Mihalkov becomes Mihairokoh.
PPS: apparently, in the year 2075, people will finally start using truly open file formats.
Viva la Ogg Vorbis! Viva open standards! Perhaps our fight is not in vain.