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Hidden Gems To Watch If You Love Sci-Fi Hidden Gems To Watch If You Love Sci-Fi By Amanda June Bell/Dec. 17, 2020 3:06 pm EDT/Updated: Jan. 13, 2021 1:08 pm EDT This content was paid for by Netflix and created by Looper. Some people say that truth is stranger than fiction, and while the last few years have certainly bolstered that claim, the world of science-fiction always comes through to remind us just how much weirder things could truly be. The sci-fi genre can be credited with some of th...

Bad Space Weather May Make Life Impossible Near Proxima Centauri 17/12/2020 Featured image: Artist’s depiction of a flare-coronal mass ejection event on Proxima Centauri. Photo: Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Author provided If you look up in the southern sky you can see the “pointer” stars, pointing towards the Southern Cross. One of these pointers is Alpha Centauri, which is actually a pair of Sun-like stars that are too close...

nd On 5 th November 2020 the Department of Planning Industry and Environment (DPIE) put the State Significant Development Applications (DAs) for the Waterloo Metro over Station Development (OSD) on exhibition until December 2 nd 2020. There are five different DAs that the community is expected to digest and comment on within the 28 days exhibition period! Metro Changes from last year The Metro development has changed substantially from the State Significant Precinct and Concept DA exhibited for...

NationofChange Today the use of nuclear in space is being pushed harder than ever. But what if nuclear materials had been aboard? The nuclear space issue is one I got into 35 years ago when I learned—from reading a U.S. Department of Energy newsletter—about two space shuttles, one the Challenger which was to be launched the following year with 24.2 pounds of plutonium aboard.  The plutonium the shuttles were to carry aloft in 1986 was to be used as fuel in radioisotope thermoel...

An Otherworldly Glow The antennas comprising the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, appear to emit an eerie, vivid shade of green light in this Picture of the Week. Situated high up on the isolated Chajnantor plateau in Chile’s Atacama Desert, ALMA seems like the perfect place for friendly extraterrestrials to discreetly land and make contact…but something far more mundane is responsible for this otherworldly green glow. The light emanates from i...

(1) TAG TEAM. YouTuber Morganeua, a fourth year PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies, uses Stephen King and Toni Morrison to beat Isaac Asimov into the ground in “Asimov’s Adverbs.” (Think of it as a homage to “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses.”) I just finished reading “Foundation and Empire” by Isaac Asimov and it was GREAT but I noticed THIS about his writing. What do you think about excessive -ly adverb use in novels? (2) YouTube channel. Some people outline t...

Posted on (1) TAG TEAM. YouTuber Morganeua, a fourth year PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies, uses Stephen King and Toni Morrison to beat Isaac Asimov into the ground in “Asimov’s Adverbs.” (Think of it as a homage to “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses.”) I just finished reading “Foundation and Empire” by Isaac Asimov and it was GREAT but I noticed THIS about his writing. What do you think about excessive -ly adverb use in novels? (2) YouTube channel. Some pe...

NASA to send art in deep space in an attempt to inform aliens about human life myersalex216 / Pixabay Related Stories Space agencies like NASA are on the search for life that may exist outside our own planet. A new project by the US-based agency looks to make contact with extraterrestrial life in the universe through sending artwork. NASA has teamed up with artist Julia Christensen to prepare a probe that will make a reconnaissance fly-by around Alpha Centauri. The probe will be carrying artw...

Alliance of the Sacred Suns Windows game Razors Edge Games "That looks really cool, Steve!" - Tom Chick, Quarter To Three "...if AotSS manages to pull off even half of what its sole developer is attempting, it could be my next favourite space game." - Adam Smith, Rock Paper Shotgun "...if you’re wanting to get in on the ground floor of a very different, very deep type of space strategy, this might fit the bill." - Alex Connolly, Stately Play "...Without a doubt, Alliance of the Sacred Suns is...

AotSS Kickstarter Is Live! news - Alliance of the Sacred Suns "It is time, Your Majesty. The Celestial Empire must be reunited." And with those words, you will take the reigns of humanitys last empire in this revolutionary 4X/Grand Strategy game, a thousand years in the future and forever lost from Earth, as you attempt to save the human race from extinction at the hands of the same alien race who destroyed their home planet an eon ago. You must navigate the Great Houses who seek your throne, y...