October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... cinema. To be fair, all the ingredients were there for a fantastic movie. First, an excellent book on which the story is - loosely -...green’ or won’t be at all. Popular culture, including movies such as Blade Runner, has certainly played a role in ...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
...Mark Watney in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel and movie, but Cosmo’s story and mission hold a much more... using a different medium, like the paperback book version of a movie. Transmedia allows us to create the narrative and episodic adventures of ...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... edge of our Sun’s habitable zone moves past our planet’s orbit. Anyone who saw Woody Allen’s movie Radio Days knows that we were promised five billion more years of having a habitable planet! Sure, it’s five...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
Watching the movie The Martian recently I was captured by the creativity demonstrated by two key characters - the astronaut stranded on Mars, ...
June 2019
A reluctant American hero
... detailed interviews with Armstrong, his family and other contacts through his lifetime. Equally fascinating is the movie In the Shadow of the Moon, co-directed and produced by Chris Riley and released in 2007, which included interview...
February 2020
Investigation of the Coriolis effect in rotating space platforms
... Space Science & Investment Congress (ASIC). Arguably, most of us interested in space travel have seen or heard about the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey with its famous rotating spacecraft ‘Discovery One’. We have passed almost two decades...
