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SALT LAKE CITY -- I found out how to get and keep a wiggly 6-year-old's attention.
Now if only I can figure out how to present myself in 3D... oh, wait.
I took my kids to the premiere of the new "Space Junk 3D" movie at the Clark Planetarium and to put it mildly, they loved it.
And here is why- it had all the necessary components of a compelling movie.
Namely drama, intrigue, explosions and zombies (shameless tease).
Now you see why my kids thoroughly enjoyed it?
Not to mention the story-telling by Tom Wilkinson (British actor in movies like "Batman Begins" and Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol").
The movie "is the first movie to explore the exponentially expanding ring of debris that threatens the safety of our planet's orbits."
And it goes on to answer the obvious questions of, "How did it get there?" and "What are we doing about it?"
But be prepared to answer more than those questions as you travel "from the stunning depths of a meteor crater to an unprecedented view of our increasingly crowded orbits, 22,000 miles above earth." You see how crowded our solar system is, the real dangers we face with so much aimless debris floating around, and how helpless we are currently at combating it and what engineers are working on to clean things up (Hint: they're talking fishing nets).
Here's a sampling of what I was treated to:
"Is something bad going to happen to earth?"
"Do we use satellites?"
"Are aliens real?"
The pictures and view provided by the 3D technology were stunning and put you right in the action as satellites collide in outer space.
"We set out to recreate the most spectacular orbital debris events with scientific accuracy and mind-blowing visualization," said Director/Producer Melissa Butt.
And because of that the only thing my 6-year-old said to me during the 38-minute movie was, "Are those missiles?"
