Sy: “All you need is magnetic coating from a floppy disk…The photodiodes of a VHS tape…And an 8-track recording of The Monkees' D-D-D-Daydream Believer.” Harley Quinn S2E12 If you watch modern movies, you may notice the frequent tendency for some character to remark something along the lines of “my phone cannot get a signal”. Peril […]
If a movie is set on a space ship or space station, at some point there is a good chance that someone or something will be blown out of an airlock. Or, some character, depressed or guilt-racked, will attempt to eject themselves from an airlock. Or someone will threaten to or attempt to “space” or […]
I once read the novel “The Clouds of Saturn” by Michael McCollum. In best space opera tradition, giant warships clashed amid swarms of dogfighting fighter craft. Unlike most such battles in science fiction, this took place within the atmosphere of the gas giant. The large ships were airships, and the smaller, heavier than air (HTA) […]
Recently I have been watching the TV series “The Expanse”, and greatly enjoying it. Naturally enough, this reminded me of this section of the Atomic Rockets website, and the comment “…they actually have their spacecraft laid out like a skyscraper, the way God and Heinlein intended.” The skyscraper element is not that obvious in the […]