Category: science fiction
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“Never give up, never surrender”
Jason Nesmith playing Cmdr. Peter Quincy Taggart (Tim Allen), Galaxy Quest Credit: https://media.giphy.com/media/2rIDTzizHRQv6/giphy.gif The best Star Trek movie never made! The quote is self-explanatory. Don’t give up when faced with roadblocks or challenges or if you hit problems. Also have the attitude to not give up and push through hardship. Because if we surrender at…
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“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!”
– Gene Rodenberry (19 August 1921 – 24 October 1991) The opening lines of the most famous science fiction show ever made. Star Trek showcased many technologies that are now common place. It started at least one astronaut on her career. Lets all praise Nichelle Nicols. Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/3008fl/mae_jemison_the_first_black_astronaut_and/ The show presented a future that normalised…
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“Vita ex pulvis. We are made from the dust of dead stars.”
— Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Go to the bottom of this post to read about this incredible image of the Cone Nebula Credit The full quote is: “Have you ever considered the fact that everything we are originates from the remnants of stars that once exploded?” Jorrus said, “Vita ex…
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“Above me shone the stars, for the night was very clear.”
Wells, H.G.. The Time Machine: with Illustrations (Classic Collection Book 22) (p. 63). Kindle Edition. The great H.G. Wells, in The Time Machine, goes on to state: “I felt a certain sense of friendly comfort in their twinkling. All the old constellations had gone from the sky, however: that slow movement which is imperceptible in…
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“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore …”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Nature and Selected Essays In his poem, Emerson puts forth the view that they would be regarded with great wonder and remembered and discussed for years to come. They would be recognized as a sign of God. Not every one agrees with this view, some think the human response would…
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Space elevators – for Mars
https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingsinger/471698669 Space elevators aren’t just for Earth. The possibility of a space elevator on Mars has been around for a few years, with various academics and science fiction authors covering the concept. There are different problems with the Martian space elevator – due to its satellites, Phobos and Deimos, as their orbits would intersect with…
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Science fiction
Guessing what the future will look like is the art of science fiction – whether next year (as in Years and Years, from the BBC) or the distant future as portrayed in Star Trek. Looking at what science fiction can tell us about tomorrow.
Stargazing Guy 