“Early cinema held an instant fascination with the train, as is evident from the numerous actualities of engines entering and … More
Category: Science
The Stranger
“The idea of creating messages to send on interstellar space probes seems both obvious and completely absurd. On the one … More
WARN: There Is Another System
“…Technology in science fiction film does appear to be limited, by-and-large, to trends in real-world technology. Early films depict computers as … More
Near Mercury
“Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of … More
Dead Eyes Open
“One of Jules Verne’s later Voyages Extraordinaires titled Les Freres Kip (The Kip Brothers, 1902) features in its conclusion a … More
“I did not paint it to be understood…”
“The team at the National Observatory of Athens held a survey in 2007, in which they used 554 paintings by … More
Strange and Wonderful Things
“According to the anthropic principle […] we inhabit a universe full of violence and unpredictability, but one so finely-tuned that … More
The Future Historian
“It was in the very distant past that the first computer appeared, and with it dawned a new era of … More
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