This movie is about a mission similar to the Apollo’s where several astronauts are ready to take off to space, but there was a problem with the rocket so they had to fake it to make the public believe. All this to make a few billion dollars. Of course, this is just a movie and does not necessarily means that it reflects reality…but what it reflects does make the Apollo missions seem like a hoax and it reinforces the idea even though it is just a film. As time goes on, many analysis were
The plot forces the audience to question whether humans can control the technology they create and if our desire to continually make advancements in technology might be to humanity’s detriment. The novel, ‘Black Hole’, written by Geraldine Stowe, is set on a star colony called ‘Estra’ in the year 2305 where technology has become so advanced that nearly anything is possible. The social comment reminds the audience that even though we live in world full of advanced technology, our negative traits remain the same. This is presented through Dante and what he is forced to go through abuse just because he is different from his society Examples of futuristic and advanced technology are interspersed throughout, ‘I, Robot’, placing the film easily in the science fiction genre. Detective Del Spooner is employed to investigate the apparent suicide of Dr Alfred Lanning who “practically invented robotics.” During Spooner’s quest to uncover the truth, he stumbles upon Lanning’s “unique” creation, Sonny.
When we landed on the moon it created a rehabilitated sense of patriotism in Americans, and that is what Krauthammer is striving for. That feeling of “wonder” and “glory” that we Americans have left behind in the last few decades. He is pushing us to realize we should not be content with mediocrity and we should strive as a country to learn everything we can about any subject possible, and open grand new possibilities for ourselves. Some of these possibilities may be a space station on the moon. It may be impractical , but most everyone loves seeing new exotic views, and nothing can be more bizarre than taking an outside look at your home planet.
Hiren Patel 10/13/14 FYOS Review of “The Space Merchants” The Space Merchants was written in 1952 and it was well ahead of its time. You might expect this book, set in "the future", to be hopelessly trite and dated, but it holds up remarkably well. If anything, many of the issues in the book resonate more today than they may have when it was first published. I enjoyed this cynical and satirical science fiction novel. It's about Mitchell Courtenay, a high-ranking ad exec in a futuristic American society dominated by advertising.
Literary Trait Comparison of The Sound Of Thunder and Nethergrave Ray Bradbury’s, “The Sound of Thunder,” and Gloria Skurzynski’s story, “Nethergrave” are two good works of science fiction. They both develop their stories through the use of technology, which is the key element in any science fiction story. In Skurzynki’s, Nethergrave, a boy named Jeremy chooses a virtual world over the real world because in reality he feels clumsy, bullied, uncomfortable and alone (Skurzynki, 314-324). In Bradbury’s, The Sound of Thunder, we meet Eckels, a man who views himself as the ultimate hunter and decides to go on a time travel safari to shoot a Tyrannosaurs Rex but when faced with the reality of the beast, he becomes terrified and flees. As he scrambles away he goes off the Path and changes the course of history, and in turn, the future forever (Bradbury, 288-300).
Mary Shelley’s gothic promethean novel, Frankenstein (1818), was released during the industrial revolution as romanticism was thriving, while Ridley Scott’s futuristic sci-fi Blade runner (1992) grew with the dawning of a capitalistic increasingly globalised and technologically driven society. The comparative study of these texts encompasses themes of humanity and playing God through a tone of moral warning and allows the responder to explore how similar content in different contexts will reflect changing, but also constant values. Through the use of filmic techniques, Scott demonstrates how nature and religion are absent in a world overrun by consumerism and technology. Due to her context, Shelley alternatively uses imagery and allusions to hint at the consequences humanity will suffer if they try to better God through the misuse of science and the corruption of nature. Both of these texts reflect the distinctive contexts in which they were written; although separated by over 100 years of history, they still present similar issues and dilemmas which affected the form and features of the individual texts.
Both briefly touched on the discovery and then focused on more on the American astrologists that confirmed the findings and found some planets of their own. These articles mostly started my look into the subject and will give some brief information, but I also find others that dive more into the topic. By using articles by Walker, Burrows, and Lunine, I will examine the initial reaction of the scientific community in 1995 to this discovery and discuss some of the more technical aspects of 51 Pegasi B. I find it quite interesting how a planet can still exist so close to a sun and with surface temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees Kelvin. This extreme survivability of 51 Pegasi B was thought to not be possible until its discovery, and now has astronomers rethinking the bases of their planetary understanding. The origin of 51 Pegasi B is also an extremely interesting story, as it is hard to believe that a planet could form so close to a star.
Alien and Blade Runner are both slowly paced to allow the audience to absorb the world that the elaborate production design creates. The two films make you simmer in the world they present before the story really begins. Alien premiered in 1979 as a merge of sci-fi and horror. It depicted a polluted, resource-starved future where, despite living in a more advanced future, society still relies on the exploitation of the ‘blue collar’ people. A mining crew ordered by their employer, the “Company”, to investigate a possible alien presence in a mining colony.
They claim since that the photos and videos of the Apollo voyage are only available through NASA, there is no other independent verification, thus the moon landings were a hoax. The competition for superior technology was fierce and theorists claim that it would have been cheaper to fake the moon landings, and prove to Russia that the U.S. had greater technology. The evidence provided by these theorists include many anomalies such as: 1. the waving flag theory. Conspiracy theorists point out that when the landing was televised viewers could see the American flag fluttering as Armstrong and Aldrin planted it on the moon. Being that they were in space there is no air in the moon’s atmosphere thus a flag waving is impossible.
George Lucas was considered a genius of his time, taking Science Fiction movies into a whole new direction with the usage of computer effects and taking his whole movie up into space. However, his true genius exists in adapting current world issues and milestones in a subliminal manner incorporated in his film. His hit movie, Star Wars may have been engendered as an inspiration of the space race and also to fill the emptiness that followed a ephemeral triumph, but it is clear that the underlying message of the movie pertains to the Cold War and all the feuds and struggle between the United States (represented by Luke Skywalker and the Rebel Alliance) and the Soviet Union (represented by Darth Vader and the Imperial Army). The symbolisms of the struggles between two most powerful countries are portrayed not only though props and costume but also through the sounds in the film as well as camera angles used to make the film. Though the United States at the time of the Cold War were not a group of unorganized forces, like the Rebel Alliance, George Lucas uses the rag-tag band of misfits, the Rebel Alliance, to create a twist in the current power dynamics of the cold war, because in fact the United States was equal to, if not greater in strength to the Soviet Union.