arthur c clarke
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When It Comes to Exploring Space, We’re Still Stuck in the Stone Ages
We’re rapidly approaching the quarter mark of the 21st century, but instead of being at the brink of a radical transformative stage, such as the futuristic vision akin to Arthur C. Clarke’s Star Child from 2001: A Space Odyssey, we’re still throwing proverbial bones into the sky. Such is the feeling I get in the…
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It’s a Race Against Time to Recover Parts of Doomed Moon Landing Mission
Astrobotic’s Peregrine spacecraft has mere hours of power left.
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Swarming Robots, DNA, and Bitcoin: The Wild List of Stuff Heading to the Moon This Week
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is slated to blast off on Monday, January 8, carrying an assortment of goodies, including cutting-edge scientific rovers, bitcoin, and a piece of Mount Everest. No doubt, this ain’t your grandfather’s Moon mission, as the era of commercial space deliveries is now upon us. The Moon will never be the same,…
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Station Eleven’s New Trailer Reveals a Strangely Uplifting Apocalypse
Despite the fact that most of the world’s civilisation has died off from a super-flu, the survivors who star in HBO Max’s adaptation of Station Eleven seem to be in pretty good spirits about the whole thing. In a new trailer, one man (played by David Wilmot) even says to the group of survivors he’s…