[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You can get all the exhiliration you want my sending automated IMAX cameras to Mars, if you insist, for a minuscule fraction of the cost.

The IMAX® film format is so large that the film canisters in the IMAX® camera can only hold 3 minutes of film at a time. This means you can shoot a scene for three minutes and then you have to stop and reload the camera. Reloading the camera takes 3 people, approximately 30 minutes.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"The IMAX® film format is so large that the film canisters in the IMAX® camera can only hold 3 minutes of film at a time."

OK. So we will have a "Manhattan Project" of film formats, and create someting for 1/1000th the cost of a manned mission so that the masses can have their filmed circuses of more than 3 minutes length. Satisfied?