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Thursday, March 07, 2002
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Access/Releases/020306.AMNH.html NCSA and American Museum of Natural History Take Remote Collaboration to New Level to Create Space Show Karen Green, National Center for Supercomputing Applications CHAMPAIGN, IL — The new space show, "The Search for Life: Are We Alone?" at the American Museum of Natural History's (AMNH) Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space features the work of visualization artists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) integrated into the show through an unprecedented process of remote virtual collaborative visualization. The new show premiered March 2 at the planetarium. "The Search for Life" was developed by the American Museum of Natural History in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The show was written by Ann Druyan, writer/producer and Carl Sagan's long-time collaborator, and Steven Soter, an astrophysicist and writer in the museum's Division of Physical Sciences, with music by Stephen Endelman. This same team also worked on the highly acclaimed "Passport to the Universe," the first-ever space show presented to the public in the Rose Center, which opened on February 19, 2000. "The Search For Life: Are We Alone?" is made possible through the generous support of Swiss Re. The film, narrated by Harrison Ford and produced by ANMH's Anthony Braun, looks at the possibility of life outside our solar system and includes segments on the birth of our Sun and solar system....
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