Yes. If it occurs within our solar system? We’d be dead within minutes. If it occurs 3 billion light years away? It would take a minimum of 3 billion years, but also could take considerably longer considering the expansion of space. If it occurs, say, 50 billion light years away (thus, outside the observable…

I still believe this is just a minority. At least the comic shop I go to (and where a few of my friends work) don’t have that many of them, and the owner as a zero tolerance policy about harassing female employees or clients. So I keep hoping the situation on the field ain’t that bad. But then again, I am in Canada…

Lithobraking. Guaranteed to reduce your surface velocity to zero.

Darmstadt Control : Hey, wait. I’m getting a no-go signal. Now I’m losing the Schiaparelli. Hey, Pune, you getting it?

Pune Control : No, I lost contact. There’s a lot of dust blowing up there.

Darmstadt Control : Now I’ve lost the orbiter. We got problems.

Pune Control : All contact lost, Darmstadt. Maybe the…

Damn it i live in that city Edmonton (EDM)

“We actually have more devices on the Martian surface now than we had hoped for, if you want to think about it that way . . ..”

“Okay, boss, look - the important thing is that the lander is on Mars. That’s - you know - what we were trying to do, right? I mean, it landed on Mars a little faster than we hoped, and maybe in a few more pieces than we planned... but it’s on there, now.”

Sounds like the ground was 50 seconds closer than expected.

It’s a test run for the exomars rover blank screens

They called it the EDM to keep up with all the Kool Kidz. Next time it’ll be called SKRILLEX.

Zombie movies are high farces in denial. It’s fitting, then, that John Cleese is narrating this one.

The Babylonians already did it! It’s called “The Dragon”, its the only creature depicted on the Gates of Babylon that doesn’t match a known species. Everything else has been identified except this weird snake, lion, chicken mixed creature.

Tragically, still not enough to save poor Barbara Walters.

There is no correct solution. The only way to win is not to play.

Counterpoint. As “essential SF in a visual medium” there is nothing wrong with this list.

“Our sun will die in several billion years, and when that happens, we’ll need to relocate,” said Avi Loeb

A little music to go with this.....

God damn it! It’s our recorded sound archives and preservation campus, too! Recorded sound always getting forgotten as the wimpy lil’ bro to moving image...

Navigator: Captain! I detect a meteor swarm heading right for the ship at velocities that will punch right through our shields!

I see that as more of an Outer Limits scenario. The probe swarm meets some kind of “resistance barrier” at the midway point between our and another star system, so we stupid human crank our lasers to 11 to force the probes through, which the aliens (who thought they were helping to decelerate runaway probes) take it…