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100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News On 4/11/21 at 8:00 AM EDT Like most movie genres, science fiction goes back almost as far as the medium itself, all the way to 1902 to be exact. That was when Georges Méliès—an innovative genius of many talents—unleashed his 14-minute masterwork: "Le voyage dans la lune," better known to American audiences as "A Trip to the Moon." Inspired by the written works of Jules Verne, among other things, and laced with satirical jabs toward the scientific community, the surrealist short follows a group of astronomers as they emb...

Star Trek Stars Launch Trek Against Pancreatic Cancer ✖ Star Trek veterans Jonathan Frakes, Kitty Swink, and Armin Shimerman are coming together as part of PurpleStride's campaign to combat pancreatic cancer. The trio are offering fans who support their campaign page before May 1 to win a 30-minute Zoom call with them. The prize isn't a random drawing but a reward given to the person who does the most fundraising. It's like most charity runs -- you don't have to personally donate, but collect pledges from others on behalf of the Trek team. The contest ends at midnight PST on May 1, with th...

Meet USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine as well as the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole. While the fourth U.S. Navy vessel and a second submarine to bear the name, SSN-571 was also far larger than the Navy's diesel-electric submarines that preceded it. Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut is known as "The Home of the Submarine Force." The facility was the first United States Navy's submarine base and it remains the primary home to Commander Submarine Group 2 (SUBGRU 2) and the Naval Submarine School. All of...

Bill Would Dramatically Expand Retirement Benefits for 42,000 Veterans A player on the Air Force wheelchair basketball team takes a shot during a scrimmage at the Rambler Fitness Center March 22, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph. (U.S. Air Force/Benjamin Faske) 1 Mar 2021 A measure just reintroduced in the Senate would dramatically expand disability benefits for veterans injured in combat. The Major Richard Star Act would allow veterans who served less than 20 years before being medically retired due to combat-related injuries to receive both disability compensation and full retirement pay....

That exhortation from playwright Arthur Miller’s masterwork, Death of a Salesman, is one of the most famous lines in the American theater, and it immediately came to mind when I learned that a naval officer of singular distinction, Commander William F. Bundy, USN (Ret.), a member of “The Centennial Seven,” had suddenly passed away on 15 December 2019. In that spirit, I headed north on a sunny December day a little over a year ago to attend a funeral with full military honors. Driving from northern Manhattan to Rhode Island takes about four hours, plenty of time to retrace the extraordi...