October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
...”. Can someone please take the initiative and organise a roundtable on the topic? In the meantime, be sure to enjoy Blade Runner 2049. About the author Guerric de Crombrugghe is an aerospace engineer, born and raised in Belgium. After his doctoral...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... content to do a job, raise a family and drink in a bar (such as Chalmun’s Cantina in Episode IV). The original Ridley Scott Blade Runner film released in 1982 was set in a futuristic Los Angeles in the year 2019. Beware the technology Wherever...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... laser cutting, thermo-shaping and circular knitting, or items digitally produced by 3D printing. The early 1980s film Blade Runner continues to influence fashion design. Karl Lagerfeld and Thierry Mugler were among the first to embrace the...
December 2018
Asgardia at Escape Velocity 2018
... is pervasive across the entire genre of science fiction, and popular modern works including Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, and Westworld continue to raise it, albeit with cyborgs and robots now being at the heart of the question...
04 August 2015
Pluto, Charon, Lovecraft, Tolkien and other geek culture staples we should use on new worlds
.... And it’s not as if there aren’t plenty more nerd culture classics to choose from. Our own suggestions include: Blade Runner Halo Elder Scrolls (Yeah, we know it has absolutely nothing to do with space. Neither do Tolkien’s books. But what...
