Quantum Quest - Potentially Awesome?

The hype machine was cranking in Ballroom 20 at Comic-Con this afternoon for Quantum Quest, a 3-D animated feature about "Dave the photon" who leaves the sun to "save his people and save the Cassini spacecraft from the forces of fear and ignorance." Clearly, we wish these guys well. Nothing would make us happier at Discover than to have an astronomy movie written by NASA scientists penetrate the public consciousness in some meaningful way. That being said, we hope they have a good editor, because the amount of information conveyed at this panel was overwhelming. Here is just a small portion of my notes from the session: "The first film originated by NASA and JPL." "Ten years in the making" "Panel includes space tourist Anousheh Ansari, at least five guys from various iterations of Star Trek and the voice of SpongeBob." "Audience seems to be mostly Trekkies." "Discoveries and images ...