" The science and technology depicted in Silent Running are not always plausible, and Trumbull's special effects are low quality even by the standards of the time (he had a larger budget in his later film Blade Runner), but the melancholy message is powerful. The soundtrack songs are performed by Joan Baez and the film score was composed by Peter Schickele . Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. When orders come from Earth to jettison the domes that contain the plants, blow each of them up via nuclear explosions and return, Freeman Lowell decides it is his mission to save the plants on his ship, the "Valley Forge. " Each ship carries six domes. When one of his crewmates comes to set a bomb in Lowell's forest, Lowell strangles him with the handle of his shovel. In the struggle Lowell's right leg is injured. Time Is Running Out He then traps the other two crewmates in one of the domes that is about to be jettisoned, and they are killed when Lowell releases the dome and blows it up. Lowell then overrides the programming of the service drones so they can perform surgery on his leg, and renames them Huey, Dewey and Louie. "

" Most road races are either 5 km (3. 1 miles), 10 km (6. 2 miles), half-marathon (21. 097 km, 13. 1 miles), or marathon (42. 195 km, 26. 2 miles), but non-standard distances are also acceptable. Running Horse The "Round the Bays" run in Auckland, New Zealand is 8. 4 km (5. "