I remember this on the tubes way back when. Thanks to Star Wars, sci fi was on the radar for every tv network going then.
Twas a golden time for tv.
This edit aims to tell the story so the viewer does not get bored or go through some eye rolling moments. Less fluff for more sci fi really.
Old school sci fi and tv fans will notice many familiar faces in the production. Even Rock Hudson. There was a "Rock" back in the day. No wrestler but there are rumours he did wrestle with his boyfriend. .
I hope you enjoy!
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I don't mean reading The Martian Chronicles is one of the best reading experiences I've had (although that's a part of it -- I've read it before and it's one of my favorite books, my all-time favorite being Dandelion Wine). I mean, reading the same book as my niece, two feet away from her, and stopping and checking in with each other whenever we both have read a particularly great sentence or chapter. That, specifically, has been absolutely incredible.
Some back story: My niece is 12. Really bright, thoughtful, caring, and independent. Recently I had the opportunity to have a totally spontaneous conversation with her about the "big questions" in life, which started with me being curious and asking her if she believed in God. (I was helping her memorize a scout pledge that included something about being loyal to God and country.) The conversation made my day/week/month/year, and it struck me that I could start a two-person book club with her and it might be a lot of fun for both of us.
So I went to the library recently to browse around for some good books to introduce her to. I snapped my fingers when Bradbury came to mind, and fortunately the library had two copies of The Martian Chronicles available. I checked them out.
She got a head start on me, and when I asked her what she thought so far, she said, "It's really cool. I liked the part where the one Martian says that Earth can't possibly support life because there's too much oxygen in its atmosphere." I enthusiastically told her that that's my favorite thing about science fiction (and reading in general): how it can force your perspective to shift in some unexpected ways.
Yesterday, I finally finished a huge task that I'd been letting get in the way of me doing any reading at all this summer. And so I asked my niece if she wanted to read together for a bit. She said yes! We grabbed our copies of the book and sat outside on the back porch. My 7 year old nephew got curious and joined us with a few books of his own at first, and my niece helped him with his reading (she would make a great educator someday if she wants to be one!), which gave me a chance to catch up to her in our book.
It was only for a couple of hours, but those hours of reading were among the best I've ever had. Not only did I get to experience the joy of rediscovering an old favorite with some powerful moments, but I got to share that experience with this brilliant young woman in my life. We both gasped and laughed at parts, asked e
... keep reading on reddit ➡Just finished listening to The Martian, read by Will Wheaton, and it was great, primarily looking for an audiobook that makes STEM, or making things in general exciting like The Martian, Adam Savage’s “Every Tool’s a Hammer”, or Nick Offerman’s “Good Clean Fun”.
Fiction, or non-fiction, instructional or not, just looking for something to keep up my drive to create when I’m not feeling like it.
I hadn’t found a book that grabbed my attention and held it in over a year. Then the other day I was in a second hand store and a almost brand new copy of The Martian by Andy Weir was there for $3. I was always interested in the book but never got around to getting a copy. The opening line hooked me in right away.
“I’m pretty much fucked.”
Ever since then it’s been an amazing and hilarious journey. It reminds me of the first read through of Vonnegut novels. Full of wit and brilliance.
I love the “stream of consciousness” type of writing style that Weir writes with.
I’m quarantined alone with my panic food and food that my roommates ditched when they decided to fly home instead of hunker down. I feel like everyday I wake up trying to evaluate my inventory and see how things could go better or worse before they actually do.
In the wake of PIC 1x02, a lot of people have commented on how unsettling and weird the synth worker on Mars is even before he's taken over by whatever piece of programming turns him deadly. He looks frankly horrifying, and his expressions and responses to input from the work crew are so clearly empty and wrong that it's impossible to view him as a living and dynamic being in the same way that Data was.
What if this is the point, though? There have been twin tendencies in Trek's engagements with the problem of personhood for synthetic lifeforms up until now. We find, on the one hand, a collection of characters like Data and the Doctor who constantly come up against the problem that they look like living beings and inhabit their spaces, but aren't; on the other, we have things (no editorial intended here) like the Exocomp or the sentient warhead that Voyager finds that, in spite of not looking like living beings at all, arguably are. The general drift of argument on both sides of this coin seems to be that appearance does not determine nature, and that anything that has been programmed may have the potential to rise above that programming.
The work crew on Mars in 2985 are potentially well-aware of this problem, because there's a corresponding moral imperative to treat that "rising-above" as something important that must be reckoned with. So far as I recall, even the most vicious good-faith^[1] debates over Data or the Doctor's personhood never boiled down to "sure, he's a person -- but I don't care." One is expected to treat living beings better.
Even if not, there's also a well-established human tendency towards empathy, and this can extend even to anthropomorphized objects. There's a great moment in the show Community where the protagonist warns his classmates that he can make them feel bad by saying a pencil's name is Steve and then breaking it in front of them. People will find reasons to connect with anything, even if there's really no reason that they should; look at all the people who name their cars, their computers, even their automated vacuum cleaners. We live in an age of almost decadent sentimentality over unambiguously non-living devices, from the research vessel that people wanted to call "Boaty McBoatface" to the new self-check-out kiosk at one of Oxford's libraries that has formally been christened "Sir Samuel Bepys."^[2] There's an entire genre of expression surrounding various space probes, landers, rovers, etc. All of this is in
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“Okay, maybe this was a teachable moment.”
Megan, also known as Miss Martian, is a teenaged superhero from Mars and an aspiring member of the Justice League. She has a casual attitude. Her Martian physiology gives her a variety of powers, including shapeshifting, intangibility, and telepathy.
Strength
- Throws a man with one hand and breaks a gun in half
- Incapacitates a man with a few punches while invisible
- Punches Mano, making what look like sparks
- Stops a train
Durability
- Possibly withstands a collapsing parking deck, though she may have phased
- [Limitation] An explosion knocks her out for about a minute
- [Limitation] Survives being hit by Tharok’s blaster, though it knocks her out
- The gun can send a trailer flying
Speed and Mobility
- Can fly
- Dodges Mano’s attacks
- Reacts to Tharok’s missile
- Gets to two people and phases them before a derailed train hits them
Shapeshifting and Invisibility
Phasing
- Phases up through the floor
- Phases through Mano’s disintegrating touch
- Phases through a missile
- Phases her hands into a control panel to make it open a door
- Can make people she touches intangible
Telepathy
Intelligence
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#Valentine’s Day Out-of-Game Event!
Valentine’s Day is coming up, and running parallel to the game, we will have a form that you can use to submit little Valentine notes to hosts, shadows, or other players (both living and dead) who were part of Mean Girls WW! This is a great time to tell someone you love their Bold Moves, their GIF game is on point, or confess your undying love. You can submit as many Valentines as you want, and you can choose whether you want your name sent along with them or if you would like to send your note privately.
We plan to keep the form open until about noon eastern time on Thursday, February 13th, and we plan to send the Valentines sometime before turnover on Friday, February 14th.
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Okay, so...I have been doing a lot of reading and have come across a few references about Martins-Laplace anachronism. I am not an expert and I have not been able to make heads or tails. However, I have gathered that the M-Laplace flux theorem is based off of observations of unaligned particles colliding in a quasi-relativistic fashion. This would explain the positron-gluon implosion reports I have heard in recent years...
Could it be? I have heard a professor speak of a "metamaterial" in the late 90's. I've never heard of such a thing and it would explain how the flux antitrunction could be centered in a fixed position...
The Martian LEGO Mars Rover 2 & Pathfinder
Hi guys, I'm a huge fan of The Martian, and I made this model as a tribute (Mars Rover and pathfinder).
Tried to make it as playable as possible so it's not 100% accurate to the movie, but I hope you like it.
There's a link to the LEGO Ideas site if you're interested in supporting, no stress either way ;)
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/6a27bdb3-c7b9-47cc-aca1-b6237c56dcb9
Cheers!
We're always talking about atmospheric re-entry on Earth from ballistic and orbital trajectories, but why do we also apply this term for when we are entering the Martian atmosphere? Shouldn't it be called just 'entry'?
