>
> That means you can buy approximately 22 next-generation operating 
> systems for the cost of a space shuttle launch, or 12 for the average 
> cost of a Hollywood movie.
> 
> http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codea/codeae/documentc.html
> http://www.didyouknow.cd/movies.htm
> 

	I don't know how much money was poured into 
	Squeak Movies, but I watched it several times 
	the last few weeks ;-)

	Amazon.com has this to say : 

	"Smarter than Armageddon and equally extreme, 
	this is high-tech Hollywood hokum at its finest. 

	It's scientifically ridiculous, but ... "


	It all started with many simultaneous deaths on
	Green World day in Boston Massachusetts.

	This was followed by flocks of thousands pigeons 
	smashing themselves into windows of buildings in 
	London downtown Trafalgar Square.

	The ending was, however, happy with whales singing
	to a couple, a young handsome but boring ;-)
	college professor(Aaron Eckhart as Joshua) from 
	University of Chicago and a cute astronaut turned 
	terranaut (Hilary Swank as Rebecca), inside a dark,
	cold capsule at 800 feet deep offshore Hawaii to be 
	rescued. (no, it's nothing like 007 ending ;-)

	This happy ending came at a price. What doesn't.

	The really ending scene was that of Mr. Finch, 
	the Rat (D.J. Qualls), hacking the entire planet 
	with his Rat Net (no, it's not Rat.Net ;-)  
	disclosing project Destiny and the deaths of Ivan 
	the commander of the ship; Serge, the scientist 
	from France, who joined the mission not to save 
	the world, but just three of them, his wife and 
	children; Brazzelton(Delroy Lindo), the scientist 
	who built Virgil in 3 months with 15 billion and 
	the chief scientist, Zimsky(Stanley Tucci), who 
	was responsible for the project Destiny which 
	stalled The Core of the earth and causing all 
	disasters leading to the end of The Planet Earth
	if the jumpstart fails to make the core of the 
	earth spin normally again.


	No, this movies was not made by Walt Disney.

	No, it's not an animated movies made with that 
	Live Panda3D written in 'crappy' C++ and Python.

	No, the title of the movies is not Squeak.
	It's 'The Core', directed by Jon Amiel .

	Then one may wonder, why on earth the subject
	of this posting says 'Squeak Movie'.

	Well, the title does not say Squeak but in the
	movies a team of scientist was experimenting
	with a little white mouse before forming the team
	to enter the center of the earth (no, they did
	not call themselves eCentral ;-).  
	Mr. Finch's Rat Net might be an indication 
	of what is possible with Croquet Live.

	Maybe I am too much obsessed with the thoughts 
	'What will happened if the core of Squeak 
	stops spinning', 'Has it stopped spinning'.

	When Brazzelton tricked Joshua and Zimsky so
	that he could win the draw to walk into the
	surrounding of 9,000 degree F, to tweak Virgil, 
	he had something like this to say :

	"I have spent my life designing Virgil, I have 
	worked with the design for the last few decades. 

	Virgil is my baby, now, if it needs more blood, 
	that blood is going to be from me".


	At that moment I thought I heard in the audience,
	someone was shouting :

	"Squeak is my baby, now, if it needs more sweat,
	that sweat is going to be from me"

	"Morphic is my baby, now if it needs more sweat,
	that sweat is going to be from me"

	"Metaclass and ProtoObject are my babies, now if
	they need more sweat, that sweat is going to be 
	from me"

	"Stuckins are my babies, now if they need more 
	sweat, that sweat is going to be from me"

	As it turned out, 
	I was dreaming,
	watching The Core.
	
	
	Happy dreaming

	smallsqueak