..., without having to undergo prior modifications, nor significant alterations deemed too dangerous or disabling. But scientists and science fiction writers have been quick to consider interfering with the boundaries of the body itself; the first step...
... earlier movies and rarely appeared as leading characters, but there are many interesting exceptions to the rule in science fiction. Think: Ripley in The Alien franchise, the ‘tooled up’ Sarah Conner in Terminator 2 and Trinity in the Matrix. As with...
...that you can put outside of the Space Station. Now, in science fiction it looks easy, going from inside to outside of the space .... One of the things you don’t get to see in science fiction movies (because they’re usually too busy saving the universe) ...
... rocket equation, it’s not about physics - we solve those issues every single day. Everyday, something that was science fiction, fantasy or voodoo a few years before, turns into reality. It’s an amazing time, and it’s accelerating. And it’s getting...
... work on rocketry provided the background material for science fiction films: from the space station in Hermann Potocnik... are particularly interesting in that they don’t look like science fiction; one could easily imagine a real moon bus based on...
... a tiny fraction of its original endowment of water. Mars, the second-nearest planet to Earth, is a somewhat better candidate. Science fiction authors have for many years populated Mars with humans or humanoid races. I grew up reading Edgar Rice...