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Like the captain of the Rocinante, I never skip my morning coffee—and The Expanse title sequence is like a shot of espresso. It might seem as though the protocol for dealing with the one minute interruption and seemingly unintelligible theme song is to hit Skip Intro, but there's something you should know… The content updates …
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"The whole world will weep with gratitude when the big day comes because Mr Happer has got his comet!" What Mr Happer really wants is to find a comet. If he does, he'll call it a Happer comet or Happer's Comet or…Comet Happer. Sadly, Happer never gets his comet but he does eventually get an …
The opening ceremony of Tokyo 2020 made a massive impact when seemingly out of nowhere a rogue planet (actually, our own) appeared in the sky over the Olympic stadium. A shimmering ring gate made of hundreds of drones had morphed into a slowly rotating Earth, like something straight out of a sci-fi movie. In tribute …
From titanium, helium-3 and sapphire, to pergium, tylium and opus, whether nudging an asteroid too close to Earth, cloning lunar miners to save costs, or mining the outer reaches of the Solar System, here are some movies and TV shows about mining in space. This list is presented in no particular order and the results …
Having been treated to an uncharacteristic flurry of snow during a February cold snap in London, made worse by the sedentary lifestyle imposed by the coronavirus lockdown, I was looking forward to opening the door into spring. Instead, I chanced upon the trailer for The Door into Summer, the first ever film adaptation of the …
Inspired by five words, or is it six, in the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon, a movie about an asteroid the size of Texas on course to impact Earth in eighteen days and the team of deep core drillers sent to break it up, I wondered whether there were any quantifiable clues to support the statement that …
Compiling a list of every asteroid and comet disaster movie ever made is no easy feat. First, you need to identify potential candidates, then you have to watch them all, which can be a somewhat tougher job than finding them. Much like asteroids and comets themselves, there's a whole spectrum of content in these dramas, …
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It's the end of the year and one particular tabloid newspaper is again warning us that it could soon be the end of the world — yes, asteroid 2019 AE3 is in our vicinity and the apocalypse is coming. In keeping with the tabloid drama, here's a link to IMPACT! — a compendium of all …
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More than 100 years have passed since the first film was shown in movie theatres that depicted a rock from space wreaking havoc on Earth—although in that case it was a comet rather than an asteroid making an impact. That movie, a silent black and white film called The End of the World, released in …
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