Marooned

Regarding the film Marooned In "Marooned," there is a subplot involving the astronauts’ communication with their families from space. The astronauts are allowed to have brief communication sessions with their wives via a video link, which becomes a source of emotional support and comfort for both the astronauts and their loved ones during the crisis. However, there is some obfuscation surrounding the communication link due to the severity of the situation and the desire to minimize public pan...

Starship Troopers - Heinlein and Realism

Robert Heinlein was one of the "big three" science fiction writers of his era.  Along with Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov, his prize-winning stories were hailed, and his critique of conventional norms, such as nonviolence and pacifism, captivated his audience.  In particular, the 1959 book Starship Troopers illustrated political and religious issues that continue to engage Christian Realists today.  The book takes brutal aim at pacifism, and thirty-eight years later it was made into the pop...

Spaceman - 2024 movie analysis

Netflix’s new sci-fi film "Spaceman," starring Adam Sandler, follows the story of an astronaut on a solitary research voyage to outer space. However, during his solo mission, he encounters an alien creature that leads him to a somber realization: his self-absorbed world is the cause of his estranged relationship with his wife. Is it too late for him to set things right?This article contain spoilers; readers discretion advised.Spaceman (2024) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:Commander Jakub P...

Adam Mars-Jones: Space Aria

To capture​ the world in a day was one of literary modernism’s defining ventures, with Ulysses setting the standard for exhaustiveness. Restricting the action to a single day is a mild piece of formalism, certainly when compared with some self-imposed contortions, but it disrupts standard novelistic workings just the same. Plot can more or less evaporate, replaced by less strident patterns of significance. What happens in Ulysses? Even if you accept Hugh Kenner’s explanation for the unfamilia...

The Most Common Space Travel Tropes In Fiction & Where They Come From - GameRant

While all science fiction set in space is likely to have some overlapping details, purely because of the shared setting, the details that are shared seem to reveal more about humanity than space. These shared details are also what allow the audience to connect to the stories, despite them existing in a setting people are unfamiliar with. All genres of literature, film, and television are sure to have their share of tropes, especially the more popular they become over time. As we move de...

Space Navy (thing) by Kesper North - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Space Navy (thing) See all of Space Navy, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Kesper North Sat Nov 04 2000 at 0:11:16 A frequently-seen concept in science fiction, wherein a military force in interplanetary or interstellar space is patterned off of the old navies of Earth's oceans. Ship classes are typically organized into categories correspoding to so-called "wet navy" types -- cruisers, destroyers, frigates, et cetera -- a...

Book of Boba Fett review - a space western

‘The Book of Boba Fett’ review: Wears its space western identity with flair - The HinduSourceURL: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/the-book-of-boba-fett-review-wears-its-space-western-identity-with-flair/article38417947.eceBoba Fett had a rather small role in the original Star Wars trilogy; he was the bounty hunter who handed the frozen-in-carbonite Han Solo to vile Jabba the Hutt. He met his supposed end in the sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi. However, instead of suffering uni...

Dark side of the Moon: the lost Surveyor missions (page 1) - The Space Review

NASA Administrator James Webb showing President Lyndon Johnson how Surveyor would be used in support of Apollo landings. After the initial Surveyor missions, NASA planned on using some Surveyor missions to certify specific sites as safe for the Lunar Module to land. Although 17 Surveyor missions were initially planned, only seven ultimately flew, with five successes. (credit: NASA) Dark side of the Moon: the lost Surveyor missions by Dwayne DayMonday, December 20, 2021 ...

NASA's record-breaking Lucy asteroid mission gearing up for October launch - Space.com

NASA's Lucy asteroid probe is set to begin its 12-year space odyssey next month. Lucy is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Oct. 16. The liftoff will kick off a landmark mission that will see Lucy get up close and personal with eight different space rocks over the next dozen years. "We're visiting more asteroids than any other spacecraft in history," Lucy principal investigator Hal Lev...

Banach Space -- from Wolfram MathWorld

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Do all planets orbit in a flat plane around their suns? | Space | EarthSky

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Electric Light: An Architectural History

By Sandy Isenstadt (Cambridge, MA, USA: M.I.T. Press, 2018, 292 pp.)One should probably not spend a lot of time trying to parse the title of this appealing book: it is neither a work focused on the built environment nor a history of the electric light. Instead, one might consider the author’s words that his intention is to study cases that "suggest an architectural history of spaces that have been generated or extensively reconstituted by electric light." His thesis is "the electric light cha...

The search for alien life - Space.com

Are we alone? The desire to know our place in the universe is a core human yearning, and people have pondered the question for thousands of years. Indeed, hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, Greek philosophers such as Anaximander and Epicurus speculated that the cosmos is teeming with planets, many of which may support life. We couldn't move beyond mere speculation for a very long time, however — until we invented telescopes and developed a proper understanding of th...

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: A hub for historic and modern-day rocket power

NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center has more than six decades of history designing, building and testing a storied series of rockets, rocket engines and instruments to fly in space. The center’s accomplishments include the Redstone rocket used to launch Project Mercury, the Saturn rockets for the Apollo program, the Skylab space station, and the Hubble Space Telescope. Marshall is located on the grounds of the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, a city in northern A...

Golden Eagle the book

Golden Eagle the book Contents Preface Picking up my first satellite Sources and methodsTracking Soviet reconnaissance satellites Tracking Soviet piloted spacraft on shortwavesHearing cosmonauts talk from spaceTracking Salyut-4, -5, -6 A cosmic conundrumOn the trail of three space sta...

FW: ["VisEv"] Besides the Screen - CFP: Geographies, Spaces, and Places Outside the Screen (Ningbo, June 10-12)

From: Gabriel Menotti Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 11:01 AM To: Subject: ["VisEv"] Besides the Screen - CFP: Geographies, Spaces, and Places Outside the Screen (Ningbo, June 10-12) apologies for cross-posting! Best! Menotti * * * Besides the Screen: Geographies, Spaces, and Places Outside the Screen University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), June 10-12, 2021 Conference Organisers: Dr. Virginia Crisp, Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media & Creative ...

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Did the universe's creator hide a message in the cosmos?

Did the creator of the universe leave a hidden message in the cosmos for intelligent life? If so, scientists have yet to find it. A search for a message on "the most cosmic of all billboards, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)," has failed, a new study finds. The CMB is the oldest light in the universe, visible across all of space. Its microwaves have been traveling since the first atoms formed out of a haze of protons and electrons that filled the universe soon after ...

Paris Review - Spaceships Have Landed

Advertisement Spaceships Have Landed Alice Munro Issue 131, Summer 1994 Eunie Morgan’s house was the third one past Monk's. It was the last house on the road. Around midnight, Eunie's mother said, she had heard the screen door close. She heard the screen door and thought nothing of it. She thought of course that Eunie had gone out to the toilet. Even in 1953 the Morgans h...

THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS

(The 2020 New York Film Festival (their 58th!) ran September 17-October 11. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, we find documentaries of an ever-increasing variety and aesthetic. Irrespective of story or style, most act as a showcase of the versatility and quality of modern digital-cinema equipment, allowing filmmakers to create images of uncommon beauty, even on ...

Oscar satellite (thing) by arfarf - Everything2.com

Oscar satellite (thing) See all of Oscar satellite, no other writeups in this node. One a long series of generally low-earth orbit satellites constructed and operated by amateur radio operators. Most were accessible to any radio ham for experiments and communications, with relatively low-cost equipment. To date well over 30 Oscars have been orbited, including AMSAT-OSCAR 10, operating since its launch in 1983.

NASA's Space Shuttle By the Numbers: 30 Years of a Spaceflight Icon | Space

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The Point in Your Star Chart that Reveals Your Hidden Sexual Desires

The Point in Your Star Chart that Reveals Your Hidden Sexual DesiresPhoto by Marija Savic via Stocksy. Jeremy Corbyn's birth chart via planetaaleph.comAnyone who is into astrology can tell you that it involves studying the movements of the planets, as well as their mythology and overall meaning; however, those aren’t the only celestial bodies we astrologers look to. For instance, there are asteroids, minor planets, and aspects that play a crucial role in a person’s birth chart. Of these more ...

A scientific Dutchman

For many decades the popular narrative version of the scientific revolution started in Poland/Germany with Copernicus moving on through Tycho in Denmark, Kepler in Germany/Austria, Galileo et al in Northern Italy, Descartes, Pascal, Mersenne etc., in France and then Newton and his supporters and opponents in London. The Netherlands simply didn’t get a look in except for Christiaan Huygens, who was treated as a sort of honorary Frenchman. As I’ve tried to show over the years the Netherlands an...

Space Food Sticks (thing) by Whipster - Everything2.com

Space Food Sticks (thing) See all of Space Food Sticks, no other writeups in this node. by Whipster (5.3 mon) CC Rep: 23 ( +25 / -2 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Tue Aug 28 2001 at 12:40:09 (thing) 2 C!s · C? by Whipster (5.3 mon) When NASA began planning for space travel one of its first concerns was getting the astronauts fed. Fresh food was out of the question - it had to be prepared, and when eaten, it could spoil or break apart. NASA turned to food industry specialists for help on ...