Hello from Chicago, IL

[CCBurns]

Hello all,
Chad Burns from Chicago here.
We are doing Post Production on a lil piece we call L5, a Hard Sci-fi show.
You can get tons of details here...
http://l5production.blogspot.com/

 

[Ernest Worthing]

Welcome!

 

[Zensteve]

Heh, that looks fun. Fancy-lookin' spacesuits & all.

a Hard Sci-fi show

I've not heard this term before. What is "hard" sci-fi?

 

[CCBurns]

Well, Hard Sci-fi is where you use real science...not technobabble.
Think more Apollo than Skywalker....

Glad you like the suits...I built them and then got to wear one.

 

[Papertwinproductions]

Welcome.

Nice suit.

 

[Tinalera]

Welcome to our corner of the universe

Impressive suits! Like something out of 2001!

 

[CCBurns]

The suits themselves are based on the Mark 3 suit, currently in testing by NASA and ILM Dover.
We refer to them as the MARK IV.
Our goal with the suits...as well as L5 as a whole, is to make a sci-fi show more closely grounded in real science than most offerings.
Stanley Von Medvey (Co-Creator and Director of L5) used to work for NASA, and still has quite a few connections in the space exploration and science communities.
For example...all the navigation data that will be displayed on ship consoles in the finished product is being done by folks who work at NASA and JPL. All the numbers will be real...all the math will work.