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True Facts About Space That Movies Get Wrong All the Time
While movies tend to depict the space odyssey as a kind of epic tale in which the unattainable degrees of the cosmos and far flung worlds are inherently ignored, in real life that solar flare in deep space will kill you. Dogfights in space? No. What the movies have shown us over the years only really proves that we just don't know how space truly operates and the grand designs behind this makeup are left in even more secrets.
By Salvador Lorenz8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Chronological Order'
Chronological Order, the 2010 feature-length movie I recently saw on Amazon Prime, certainly deserves an award, which would be for the most unlikely time-travel device I've ever come across on page or screen. That would be a door that our protagonist, a guy by the name of Guy, finds floating in the ocean. He and we soon learn that when he stands it up and walks through it, he walks a little or longer into the past.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Visitors from the Future in Our Past
The moon had taken the night off and the city was experiencing a power outage due to a recent storm. For the residents of Wayville, OK, this was a normal part of life during the volatile tornado season. Luckily, there had not been a tornado today, but the storm had raged enough to damage some of the transformers in town. The blackout allowed Ezra to peer into the past through the stars in the sky. As he looked toward Cygnus, the Swan, he began to remember the nights that he spent awake as a child thinking of the immensity of the universe. While other children dozed off to experience myriad dreams, he laid awake wondering how the universe could be so large and limitless, how it continued to expand, but was beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Ezra recalled being filled with a sense of awe and wonder, while simultaneously fighting back a fear that began in his bones and seemed to grow exponentially through his body. As a child, he would wonder where he fit in the vast cosmos and tonight was no different. Lost in thought and beginning to feel those same feelings from childhood, Ezra was startled by a hand on his shoulder.
By Cody Perry8 years ago in Futurism
Top 10 Worst Ways to SETI
Half a century, over a billion dollars spent and no results. Here are the top 10 worst ways we are Searching for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).10. Fermi ParadoxA paradox that is a conflict between arguments of scale and probability that seem to favor intelligent life being common in the universe, and a total lack of evidence of intelligent life having ever arisen anywhere other than on the Earth. Overlooks the most basic premise of EARTH Methodology regarding the possibility of Hetlau. Tries to use a complex mathematical analysis to calculate the probability. Estimates 200–400 billion stars in the Milky Way (2–4 × 1011) and 70 sextillion (7×1022) in the observable universe. Combined with the mediocrity principle says life should have occurred even if on a minuscule number of planets.Way to complicated. ESH are going to think in simpler terms that are needed to psychologically control EA. Such as EMSR, HNFS, and EPMS. EA need to think like ESH, not with complex mathematical formulas. ESH will possibly use an ETA:
By Richard Van Steenberg8 years ago in Futurism
Artificial Intelligence to Life
It’s no secret that humanity is working to build artificial intelligence. The speed at which technology is advancing makes it seem that every other day in tech there is some new development that pushes us closer to seeing an AI that might be indiscernible from a person.
By Alexander Hilton8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'An Angel for May'
An Angel for May just showed up on Amazon Prime. I just saw it, and think of it as a YA (young adult) Outlander. Significantly—or not—the Melvin Burgess novel on which the 2002 movie is based was published in 1992, or just a year after Diana Gabaldon published her first Outlander novel. I have no idea if Burgess read and was inspired by Outlander, but the two stories have a lot common. Time travel in An Angel for May happens when the hero, young Tom, walks through a broken stone facade of an old building. Both stories have a foot in the Second World War—the point of departure for Claire in Outlander, the terminus for Tom. Both are UK-based. And both are, in significant part, about the time traveler trying to change history.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Cleaper
Hello out there to you reading this. You will know about me soon. Before I was killed by one of my clones, I put myself into the Package. The Package is a porthole into another dimension. I have been lost in here ever since. I go by the name of Switcher.
By Kyle Shamburg8 years ago in Futurism
'The Discovery'
The Discovery (2017, Netflix) is a strange, edgy, powerfully soft-spoken movie about a scientific attempt to find, map, and understand the afterlife. As such, it bears some resemblance to Kiefer Sutherland's 1990 Flatliners (coincidentally remade in 2017, but I haven't yet seen it). The Discovery sports Robert Redford in a quite central role, with Jason Segel, Rooney Mara (House of Cards), Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights), and Riley Keough (first season of The Girlfriend Experience) in leading and strong supporting roles.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Outrun Stories #47
He stood at the window, glass of scotch in one hand, silk robe wrapped tightly around him, looking down on the neon-city far below, watching all the little people going about their business as he probed them, jumping mind to mind, trying to find something interesting.
By Outrun Stories8 years ago in Futurism
