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NASA's Weird, Michael Bay-ish Back To the Moon Promo


Have you seen NASA's ominous promotion for its Back to the Moon project?

As Clive Thompson of Collision Detection writes, somebody's been watching too much Battlestar Galactica -- there's something strangely threatening about the trailer -- not just the booming, minor key music, but the text, too: "We took a giant leap...We stopped...Now we're going back" (To do what? Finish off whatever we didn't kill the first time around? Blow up the moon people if they get lippy with us?)

With all the robotic Rovers zooming across the CGI lunar surface, doesn't this trailer look an awful like the early promos for TRANSFORMERS?

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Justine, great to meet you the other day in Boston (after the BPL Nancy Drew thing). Tried looking for you email here on the site, but I couldn't find it. So, I'm posting. Hopefully you'll catch this. Best, Steve

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