... be helping with. Terraforming Terraforming is the process of making another planet hospitable for human life. We’ve all seen it in movies and it is not something that is likely to be needed for quite some time. However, those working in the space...
... first volume, draws on the archives of the late Fred Ordway, who worked with Stanley Kubrick on the movie. This volume summarises the work of some of the scientists and engineers who influenced Kubrick, Ordway and...
... of cosmic evolution’. That said, you just have to love an essay that begins “One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1951 science fiction thriller, The Day the Earth Stood Still”. Ultimately, this is the sort...
... at Caltech in the US and another in New South Wales, Australia (the Parkes radio telescope which featured in the movie film ‘The Dish’). The author traces Bolton’s story from his birth in Sheffield, UK, via education at Trinity...
... of the coverage is bound to be predictable: we all know that women were often used as ‘window dressing’ in the earlier movies and rarely appeared as leading characters, but there are many interesting exceptions to the rule in science fiction...
... place, NASA have created https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov to let you watch this event as short movies in almost real time. The transit lasts a little over 5.5 hours, ending as Mercury leaves the disk of the...