[science fiction short] ... a short story I wrote ca. 1984, originally
sketched as a TV-news insertion in the 1984-proposed, AD
2100: The Grand Odyssey - an inner story related as a 20/69 episode
with Razeh Savage and Lew Pranceler, who send their Jorel d'Ewe on a billion-dollar
visit to discover Retirement on Venus: Heaven or Hoax? - the gruesome details
of leisure-science gone awry. [RETIREMENT AT VENUS was designed as a news-story-within-an-story, but completely unrelated to the outer feature, it's readily producible]
[The original was written in distinctive exacting separate word-punctuation
and phrase-punctuation]
The movie shall be available digitally recorded widescreen 2:1 stereo'eyes'ed 4Mpx 30 fps
released on 3D-HD-DVD, HDDVideo, standard 35mm film (telecined celluloid), home-theater
HDTV/DVD/DTV, VCR etc. (Stereo'eyes'ed 3.5-D is viewable
with white sexichrome or polarized safety-goggles; The advantage of digital is its
reproducibility for the future of both broadcast and movie-house.) The initial shoot
shall be direct to gigabyte hard-drive; wavelet-compressed and copy-saved to DVD+RAM;-
the digitized sound and music edited in synchronized frames-fractions of a second. Image
generation shall be further enhanced and assisted by state-of-the-art computer
facility.
[Music specified in this screenplay is the Strategic Director's selection from hundreds
of CD's of existing works by artists whose timbre and lyrics fit each onscreen activity,
and is not otherwise representative of project SesQuatercet and its purposes]
Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry, independent research scientist, is the author of FUNDAMENTAL
CONTROVERSES: Christian Science Class Instruction, taking-up the Holy Biblical Scripture
as a synopsis of mankind's Scientific purpose on Earth, (web-published); and as well,
Project NEMO advanced-topics science articles base including his 1984 discovery of
presolar remnant star core Pluton. A 1973 UCSD graduate, BA,
Mathematics Dept., Mr. Petry is a former crypto-Tempest digital electronics engineer
with former Linkabit Corp. of San Diego, CA, in digital radio satellite communications
systems for the former SAC Command Post. He has also served as Board Of Regents
Appointee Lecturer in mathematics at UH Manoa, HI; and Vice President on his prior
branch Church Executive Board, Eighth of San Diego; and is Founder and current
Trustee-Director of The Son Dey School of Christ Science, the erstwhile project
'lambhorn'; And, since 2001, is President CEO of Lanthus Corporation and Director of its
Surrogate Executive Accessions Management, and its new-market PubNatSec and pdqbanking
divisions. Mr. Petry writes science docudrama, science-hypercubed, science-scenario,
feature screenplays, based on satellite photography, Biblical astronomical fact,
correlative scientific Scriptural exegesis, and mathematical induction, in his
repertoire at >Wision--SesQuaTercet USA
productions (registrar; division of Lanthus Corp), where he is also Strategic
Director and Principal Screenwriter; He has several more works in research and
development.
As profferred Adult.Basic.Educator to the Internet, Mr. Petry acts as liaison to
scientific organizations primarily in the cosmo-thematical studies, mankind's common
past and connected future, presenting science in an entertaining redacted format.
[Mr. Petry also maintains several websites and posts on usenet news-groups and forums
in the mathematics, sciences, technologies, digital electronics and computer
engineering, and USA Presidential political-campaigning]
Abstract
[AD 2069]
FANFARE The future is set in AD 2069, with Razeh Savage and Lew Pranceler in
future-astro-silver-spike-punk-doos, 'i-ball' monocles, introducing the awesomely funny
episode of, The Sunny Side of Venus: Retirement Heaven or Hoax? - The gruesome
details of leisure-science gone awry! Is this the bright and morning star? Or is this an evening star?
20/69 finds-out after this... COMMERCIAL In AD 2067, 20/69 had sent their Jorel d'Ewe on a billion-dollar
visit to discover what has happened to the super-rich-man's paradisiacal
retirement communities on the floating cities amid the clouds over Venus:
He's back! It's true! At 54 kilometers up, it's balmy temperatures, puffy
clouds, one atmosphere, and sunny retirement: At least that's the sexy
TV-web-vid promo's, if you stay inside the domed cloud-cities: But far
below them is the orange-glowing lead-melting hot surface of the planet
Venus. And vague reports of communications interruptions not too comfortingly
explained, and Earth politicians avoiding the more questionable ethics
of the entire Venutian Venture, have lead to the news-team investigation
by 20/69. It costs $800 million to send their hottest 20/69 "i-News-Eye"
to visit Venus - that's why it's been a one-way trip for only the super-richest
ever to retire there - but, does he find the fountain of youth?! Landing
on Jesus-City, it appears to be as the ad's say, pastoral, picturesque,
and polite: polite enough to accept his discretionary research proposals
with his probing camera eye, but not enough to explain the occasional slight
bump-quakes. Quickly dispensing the cordialities of meeting a few ga-ga
retirees who actually like the life here, he and his caretaker guide head-out
for the far reaches of the city mass: This city floats on a deep mass of
vegetable cellular foam grown in place over decades, and replenished by
tending - the caretakers duties - by growing it downward, the bottom layer
expands, maximizing its buoyancy. At the city edge are ladder-stairs out
and over the side, descending several kilometers into the warmer depths
beneath: at 4000 meters below it gets boiling hot, and further below the
foam chars, sublimes, and ends: the floating city can support only so much
over-burden, or it'll sink. But this city is doing just fine, and the two
of them are only descending a summery 1 kilometer: they wear light-sleeves
and shorts, but the air is more acidic, so they don't stay down long, and
they wear gas-bubble-masks to maintain their personable dome atmosphere.
Far down the climb they begin to imagine hearing voices: but the voices
are real: nearby in the sky, bluish above, orangish beneath, is another
city but with battered edges, and gradually approaching by inches - and
inside, screaming at them to leave, are the inhabitants, not happy at all,
dressed for desert-living: their city has sunken as they over-grew, a facet
of living not impossible to seniors, and the bottom charring had removed
too fast their bottom layer: their city is still sinking, and unless they
can lighten their over-burden, which means possibly death for some inhabitants
as time goes on, to prevent the city from sinking faster still ... it's
government-anarchy, but so far to-date only natural deceasements have occurred
in 2 years - about the time of the first interruption of communications.
So, it could be a happy place: they could have the paradise promised, but
the cost is higher for some, and not many will afford the planning it requires
to keep it. Sounds like the Garden of Eden story all over again. Next up on 20/69 - Do Earth-Beagles Come From Jupiter? We take a
20/69 look at the latest cosmo-genetic theory from the University of California
at Davis, that mankind developed on other planets before settling Earth,
and why our farm and household pets that have been with us for thousands
of years, remember to walk on all fours: It seems they never forget. We'll
be right back, with more, 20/69. END
Scenes Outline
'20/69 episode'
[Retirement on Venus: Heaven or Hoax?! leisure-science awry]
[fanfare: titular reminder, commercial]
[introduction: Razeh Savage, Lew Pranceler, Jorel d'Ewe returned from
a billion-dollar visit to Venus air-cities]
The theory of measurement propounded in this work is not to be cited (as)
considering contraband or corpses; Nor are the intellectual appurtenances
hereïn to be used for or in the commission of crimes against persons, peoples,
properties, or powers (States). May your tabernacle measure true.
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