Yes, proper names reserved for larger vessels.

Be The Culture.

Of Course I still love you needs two deployable camera drones to launch and observe landings. It wouldn’t stop the sat video feed issue, but think of the scientifically informative angles they could capture.

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Clarke was working on the idea way before then. His 1953 story Jupiter five has a crew of astronauts finding Jupiter’s fifth moon was hollow and actually a 30 mile wide colony ship left by an ancient and long gone race. The ship aspect aside there is also the notion of visitors leaving artifacts around for humans to…

Elysium Ring

Am I missing something here?

...deal with overpopulation...

ordering Apple Watch now. does it matter which band I get?

Kubrick is a photographer first, so lenses, film stock, lighting, etc., and meticulous at scouting locations, researching ... deep research...every film a doctoral thesis on the subject and he became the expert. And a master chess player, every move calculated. If there’s a chess game in the film watch closely because…

When you’re ready, Paths of Glory has a hard bite. Interesting ~3 decade compare/contrast to FMJ.

Kubrick gave Scott unused aerial shots for Blade Runner. I think they were so generic that Kubrick didn’t see how it could visually connect to The Shining.

Fairly certain that is a composted shot, maybe a painting as the lake in the background?

I picked up the BL bluray a few months back and was disappointed...not in the film per se but that my puny 45" screen didn’t do it justice. It felt small and contained. Maybe a 60" screen AND sitting close up might be ok.

I’m sorry.

Overall enjoyed it, disappointed with it’s deus ex machina the author dropped 2/3 through, but easy to get over. Deals with some very interesting subjects. Haven’t read the sequel Ultima...guess I didn’t like the first well enough to push it to the top of my book pile. Someday.

If Musk ever moves to Mars – improbable, but he’d be the one to do it – then it would be his office on Mars, his business...and he’s the boss. His record is if you’re not working to his schedule then you’re out. How do you operate like this on Mars? There’d be vagrant ex-employees wandering the cold dusty expanse of Pl…

Stephen Baxter’s Proxima describes a similar technology to send an AI to Proxima Centari.

Bets on the first cop shooting a kid who pointed a light saber at him?
Cop: it looked so real.