One of them is just sort of normal aerospace manufacturing efficiencies — both on the spaceships as a whole, as we build additional spaceships, our per-unit cost will go down.
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In science fiction, spaceships are often about more than transportation.
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Sure, the spaceships and aliens and photon blasts are cool.
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Whitesides: The additional spaceships are really important for the business.
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You can use coins to purchase new and unique spaceships.
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What sells are the scenes where spaceships crash into London.
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He most often depicted epic interstellar spaceships of monumental mass.
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The physical realities of spaceships docking at spaceports become apparent.
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This was magic you simply can't do with fake spaceships.
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My brother and I would create worlds, forts and spaceships.
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Their best photos show stunning landscapes, astronaut selfies, and SpaceX spaceships.
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And we're building here in Mojave – which is two new spaceships.
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Until now, SpaceX and Orbital ATK weren't actually docking their spaceships.
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His covers were brightly colored, with fantastic technologies, spaceships, and creatures.
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What do you do when you stop building spaceships for NASA?
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The tanker returns to Earth and the spaceships heads for Mars.
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Twelve alien spaceships descend on Earth, hovering mysteriously in the sky.
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Inflatable spaceships offer several advantages, but the main one is mass.
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An array of real-life toy spaceships are compatible as controllers.
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Some look like renderings of spaceships, others like abstracted musical instruments.
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Do you know where his idea of reincarnation spaceships came from?
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When people imagine first contact with aliens, they usually imagine giant spaceships.
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Spaceships like the INTEGRAL are no longer the stuff of science fiction.
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If we want to someday live on Mars, spaceships won't be enough.
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Only the national flags on the spaceships and spacesuits would be different.
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In other words, spaceships could plug themselves into these enormous energy outlets.
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Fans of the undersea craft sometimes call these new submersibles inner spaceships.
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In Elon Musk's fever dreams, we're already looping around the moon in spaceships.
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The key is making spaceships reusable, which is Blue Origin's goal, Bezos said.
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"I walked in and it was like alien spaceships had landed," Krasinski recalled.
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Yes, they're visual effects, yes, they are fun explosions, yes, there are spaceships.
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But starting a Mars settlement requires more than just rocket engines and spaceships.
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While the name evokes images of crashed spaceships, "Roswell" never quite takes off.
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In the meantime, the Soviets had begun sending uncrewed spaceships around the moon.
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Gamers accustomed to zombies, dragons, spaceships and building civilizations were apprehensive at first.
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We were told that the spaceships hadn't come because our souls weren't ready.
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First, within the game, spaceships zipped across the sky, including the Millennium Falcon.
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He figured as a 4-year-old, all I wanted to see was spaceships.
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I'm certainly not attracted to writing movies that have spaceships all the way through.
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Thanks to fictional depictions, we tend to think of spaceships as well-fortified machines.
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"I walked in and it was like alien spaceships had landed," Krasinski, 39, recalled.
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The image was part of a series that showed hovering spaceships around the world.
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Everything from the rockets to the human-carrying spaceships and fuel tank are gigantic.
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"We're not talking about putting spaceships on land next to anyone's house," says Latimer.
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Balloons, trains, planes and spaceships - whatever comes into your imagination, continue to dream big.
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The Soyuz spacecraft is one of three spaceships currently docked at the space station.
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Yet both companies are years behind schedule in delivering flight-approved spaceships to NASA.
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However, Starliner is one of two commercial spaceships that NASA is paying to develop.
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Yet both companies are years behind schedule in delivering flight-approved spaceships to NASA.
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People, girlfriends, grandsons, spaceships — they don't understand what went down in New Hampshire on Monday.
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Even in a science fiction future full of spaceships, you have to beware the critters!
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And that's why calling The Outer Worlds "Fallout but with spaceships" feels wrong to me.
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You've got Christmas decorations, cigarette packets, badges and clocks, these playful spaceships, saltshakers, and watches.
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NASA picked these 9 astronauts to fly SpaceX and Boeing's spaceships for the first time
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And, how will 3D printing change the way we build everything from skyscrapers to spaceships?
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ARRIVAL It rarely turns out well when mysterious spaceships suddenly land all over the planet.
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Russia's Soyuz spaceships are currently the only means of sending crews to the multinational ISS.
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Williams produced larger mixed-media works, too, including several sculptures that, Jones suggests, resemble spaceships.
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Once it's possible to fully digitize these "connectomes," travel via gleaming spaceships might be unnecessary.
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The plan includes building 1,000 fully reusable spaceships, called Starships, over the next 10 years.
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Players are asked to take control of one fleet of spaceships and take on another.
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"We want to dispel the myth that we're plopping spaceships down here," Ms. Glen said.
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles are essentially suicidal spaceships that start their trip by leaving Earth's atmosphere.
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Craig Venter thinks that sending living organisms to other galaxies on spaceships is "definitely" science fiction.
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Mr Musk named SpaceX's rocket-recovery "droneships" after AI-animated spaceships in Mr Banks's "Culture" books.
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Inside the hotel, softly-lit white paneled walls bring to mind the interiors of Hollywood spaceships.
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Just for fun, here are the size and rotation rates for some other science fiction spaceships.
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Inside computers, sadly, there are no simulated trees, spaceships, explosions, luscious naked bodies, or scary monsters.
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Although they're not yet available to everyone, we do have jetpacks, self-driving cars and spaceships.
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The game pits you, a single brave space explorer, against waves upon waves of hostile spaceships.
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We can create Inspector Gadget because we can create computers and Boston Dynamics robots and spaceships.
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I dreamed of some day working in that wonderful world of intergalactic creatures and miniature spaceships.
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SpaceX is also trying to cut costs with reusable spaceships and aggressively pursue more economical designs.
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Then it moves into Star Wars action — fighting spaceships, battling droids, and face-to-face confrontations.
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In December, for a Star Wars event, spaceships, including the Millennium Falcon, zipped across the sky.
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Inside the hotel, softly-lit white panelled walls bring to mind the interiors of Hollywood spaceships.
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But it also helped seed a commercial space transportation industry that is now developing passenger spaceships.
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We didn't want someone to build two spaceships, fly this one, and then fly this other one.
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He also shared the cleaning and childcare duties and took time to make spaceships from refrigerator boxes.
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After stage separation, the spaceships parks in orbit while the booster returns to Earth—where it lands.
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The participants in the simulation decided to slam spaceships into the asteroid in hopes of deflecting it.
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You think of the spaceships or reanimated corpses, and maybe then you get into the emotional content.
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Spaceships will be able to refuel on asteroids and harvest key resources to make long journeys possible.
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Bigelow's business plan depends on the development of privately-built spaceships capable of cheaply ferrying astronauts aloft.
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They created the larger digital sets and spaceships in the scene, and layered in explosions and debris.
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She added that spacesuits are essentially "one-person spaceships" that deserve similar levels of funding and scrutiny.
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Weird worlds, alien proto-molecules, gritty asteroid miners, cool spaceships, that's the stuff I was weaned on.
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Sputnik capsules and Vostok spaceships had sent dogs, rabbits and the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit already.
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Long stretches happen with no explication or action except the zero-gravity ballets of spaceships immaculately imagined.
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These huge Chinese projects all over the developing world can seem like spaceships landing on distant planets.
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One morning, his friend Kasandra Reid came to school with her shirt — blue, with spaceships — inside out.
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We have robotic spaceships now that have navigated the rings of Saturn, which are much more extensive.
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Called Spaceport America, the shiny new facility features runways and a cavernous room for spaceships to park.
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If all goes to plan, actual spaceships will fly from the site as early as next year.
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The goal: Have companies, not the US government, build new spaceships to reach the International Space Station.
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NASA desperately needs those commercial spaceships because it retired its fleet of space shuttles in July 2011.
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You'll fly around trying to avoid other jets and UFO spaceships in a 3D sci-fi environment.
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SCI-FI: Though I'm a child of fantasy, my interest in the stars and spaceships is growing.
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And finally ... This veteran NASA astronaut has tried SpaceX and Boeing's new spaceships — here's what she thinks
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All they're going to see are the aliens and the monsters and the spaceships and things like that.
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So in the not too distant future, we'll have three spaceships operating from New Mexico taking people up.
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As with Dark Matter, I've really loved Syfy's return to form when it comes to shows about spaceships.
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People go to "Star Wars" to see spaceships and light-sabres and heroes wrestling with the dark side.
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Oh, you should note that often the spaceships are flying backwards because they don't actually fly in space.
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That will depend on how much time it takes to fuel the spaceships once they're in Earth's orbit.
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"It's always been private sector that built spaceships," Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space, told Hill.
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What I'm seeing here is that I'm not alone in being tired of medieval Europe and phallic spaceships.
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I was looking at old LSD tabs with that classic art on it, like spaceships or smiley faces.
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I saw an opportunity to make money, have some fun, and trick myself into getting spaceships guilt-free.
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It involves missile launchers, heat seaking laserbeams, skull-shaped spaceships and schoolgirl uniforms the size of the Hubble.
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Ms. Le Guin embraced the standard themes of her chosen genres: sorcery and dragons, spaceships and planetary conflict.
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The effort to design and build first aircraft, then spaceships opened new career opportunities for women and minorities.
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If you've ever asked yourself "What if Fallout: New Vegas had spaceships?" then Outer Worlds is your game.
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Stretched taut, carefully draped or seemingly suspended, these structures evoke tents, gliders, banners and even spaceships and maps.
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In total, NASA has selected nine astronauts to fly the Boeing and SpaceX spaceships for the first time.
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The spaceships of the auto world There are far easier ways to make money in the car business.
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Yet others, like spaceships and rockets, one with "Moon or Bust" scrawled in red, herald dreams of exploration.
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For now, though, NASA says it's focused on completing its Commercial Crew Program to test-launch American spaceships.
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They may one day provide the raw ingredients to refuel spaceships without the need to return to Earth.
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The real money will be made selling rocket engines to others planning to launch satellites and spaceships, Bezos said.
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The VR roller coaster hurls (lol) you through space, into wormholes and through interstellar portals alongside spaceships and droids.
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And it is up to us to produce as many spaceships as we can to cater with that demand.
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He also talked about the need to build a methane-based propellant production plant on Mars for the spaceships.
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People have spotted a giant staircase to the underworld in Antarctica, the lost pyramid of Atlantis and abandoned spaceships.
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Because they were the first true spaceships — vehicles that operated only in a vacuum — they had an alien appearance.
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Above, Amy Adams plays Louise Banks, a linguistics professor who leads a team of investigators when spaceships touch down.
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Neither of the two spaceships — each weighing more than a ton — returned any information about the cloud-covered planet.
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Spaceships zoom over soaring buildings with thatched tops; a hover train zips over a market with hanging woven baskets.
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Snakehips SPACESHIPS WERE MEANT TO FLLLLLYYYYYYY Soulwax wubwubwubwubwubBRRRRRRRRUMUMUMUMUMUMUMUM St. Vincent Still waiting on that reunion tour with The Grenadines.
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Some experts have speculated that spaceships would need a shielded room where astronauts could hide until flares were over.
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I touched plants with polka-dot leaves and velvet petals and starfish blooms, and ones resembling tiny pink spaceships.
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In Los Angeles, you're in your spaceships, driving around in your car, and you don't get to people-watch.
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Unfortunately, information on its whereabouts costs money — money Corvus doesn't have, but money he could make by sneaking onto spaceships.
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"The idea of spaceships running into gods in space I feel is not super-explored in science fiction," he says.
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There's Virgin Galactic for people, Virgin Orbit for cargo, VOX for government missions and The Spaceship Company, which builds… spaceships.
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Yes, he's been developing his own rockets, and spaceships—one that tragically and infamously exploded in 2014, killing a pilot.
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Syfy, an American television channel, has released models of spaceships and props from its shows for people to 3D-print.
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Actual spaceships are unwieldy, temperamental machines; this is one craft we can all understand, even if it's not exactly functional.
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The result is a hyper-stylized tweaking of the Bond formula, replacing guns and girls with spaceships and Sith lords.
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"In the '80s, it became the equivalent of a Mötley Crüe video, with huge breasts and spaceships," Mr. Morrison said.
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There are spaceships and lasers and love trysts and outlaws, as well as an eclectic cast, led by Nathan Fillion.
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For the kind of classic sci-fi built around spaceships and interplanetary relations, there's really only one choice: The Expanse.
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Most of all, we hoped that the spaceships could hear us, and that they would be summoned at last. ♦
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It's a parody of the arcade game Space Invaders, only involving an IUD, eggs, and penises, instead of aliens and spaceships.
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Investigating the idea that aliens have traveled here and have skimmed the air with spaceships, meanwhile, is the province of pseudoscientists.
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It's because I think spaceships would be a cost-inefficient method of traveling unless FTL (faster than light) becomes easily feasible.
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People can travel through the universe, upgrading weapons and spaceships, discovering new plant species, animals or even planets then naming them.
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What I like about the film is that it's science fiction without any spaceships—it's just planet earth with different rules.
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I started appreciating the key differences in NEXT: the prettier graphics, the more densely populated spaceships and trading ports, the missions!
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But this thrust would perform much better, especially for long-distance missions, than a higher thrust on heavier, propellant-based spaceships.
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That was how I grasped that TV was something people made, that you could build spaceships and phasers and alien masks.
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In the sci-fi series "Star Trek," spaceships rapidly travel from one part of the universe to another using warp drives.
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Jaylah has some kind of technology that makes giant spaceships invisible, and another kind that shoots fast-drying resin (or something).
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Lifetime insurance estimates could be extrapolated out to hundreds of dollars on the larger spaceships, according to what people were paying.
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" For his part, Keith says, "I've seen weird spaceships flying around in the sky but no one will ever believe me.
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"Watching scenes of them running up and down the hallways of the spaceships looked like fun," Carter said at the time.
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Subsequent observations suggested that the burst was generated by extremely powerful magnetic fields, most likely ruling out lasers from alien spaceships.
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That might change this year, however, since NASA has been working with SpaceX and Boeing to build new astronaut-ready spaceships.
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He imagined exploring the solar system with spaceships propelled by nuclear explosions and establishing distant colonies nourished by genetically engineered plants.
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The Star Wars saga is full of iconic imagery, characters, weapons, and spaceships, but perhaps none more so than the lightsaber.
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Unicorns and spaceships abound in this animated series, a candy-colored reboot of the mid-80s show about a warrior princess.
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Then she's panning for gold, and jumping up and down on bungee cords, and there's shots of spaceships, and pyramids, and sharks.
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That's when viewers realize Reginald is on a strange planet that is sending off multiple spaceships (or missiles, it's hard to tell).
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The game let players pilot an angular craft called the Arwing, as they battled robots, alien creatures, and spaceships through expansive levels.
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The prime currency is hyperfuel, otherwise known as coaxium, the refined silvery blue liquid which enables spaceships to get where they're going.
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If you're looking to explore a new paradigm for reality more than to shoot down spaceships, it might still be too early.
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It's easy to draw comparisons between Nightflyers and YouTube Premium's recently debuted Origin since both are about the crews of troubled spaceships.
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They produced endless technological marvels - from underwater cities to spaceships big enough to tow the earth a bit further from the sun.
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" — Gareth Edwards #RogueOne — Chris Taylor (@FutureBoy) December 2, 2016 Edwards added that without lessons, the movies would just be "spaceships and explosions.
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That helps to explain why the billionaire space race has escalated from sending rockets into orbit to sending spaceships to Alpha Centauri.
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An advanced civilization would be able to do the same to Earth without using huge spaceships hovering about for all to see.
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Above: the author's car, purchased through trading virtual spaceships Within an hour, we'd had our test drive and were already discussing price.
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There are rainbow-colored flying unicorns and villains with giant red claws for hands, not to mention cool spaceships and battles royale.
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Nevermind the special effects and the model spaceships, Kubrick and Clarke were making up much of the story as they went along.
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Virgin Galactic has not tested a powered flight of one of its spaceships since the fatal crash of Spaceship Enterprise on Oct.
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They're, like, weird tentacle monster spaceships, with cockpits replete with veins and folds and they probably breathe in some entirely unsettling way.
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Both spaceships have room for a fourth seat, bumping the station's overall crew size to seven once Russia returns to full staffing.
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Next week, she and Pesquet, 39, will perform another spacewalk to continue the space station upgrades and maintenance needed for future spaceships.
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Then you earn money by completing missions that have you sneaking onto procedurally generated spaceships to steal, capture, or kill someone or something.
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In unaltered footage, Dubrovnik looks exactly like the Westerosi capitol; with spaceships by nightfall, it becomes the effervescent casino of The Last Jedi.
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Plus spaceships capable of carrying a hundred or more passengers to the Red Planet, landing, then returning to Earth to pick up more.
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Still, the trailer certainly leaned into more traditional Star Wars action, including scenes featuring fighting spaceships, battling droids, and face-to-face confrontations.
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Space Rockets, satellites, and spaceships were things that governments built—until Elon Musk stepped into the ring in 2002, with his startup SpaceX.
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"NASA puts three copies of everything on all of their spaceships," explained Jonathan Pellish, aerospace engineer from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Metal 3D printers allow businesses to construct and test components for new medical devices, robots and vehicles — from F1 racing cars to spaceships.
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Turns out, all those movies about spaceships going just a liiiiittle bit off course and crashing into the sun were filthy, filthy lies.
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Oh, and in all of his spare time, he's going to keep building spaceships and figuring out how to get people on Mars.
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In a recent episode, one of the large spaceships (the Navoo) rotates in order to create artificial gravity (that's not really a spoiler).
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As much as we love seeing Lego produce gigantic versions of spaceships like the Millennium Falcon, we're equally excited for sets like these.
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The agency has already partnered with SpaceX and Boeing to develop spaceships that can carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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The visionary entrepreneur is bent on building giant low-cost reusable rockets and spaceships that can be used to colonize humans on Mars.
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That said, the station and its predecessors are enormously helpful testbeds in the quest to develop even more massive spaceships down the line.
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But moving from a testing and R&D hangar to a place where actual customers will board the spaceships is a major milestone.
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Attentions have gone: Modern Warfare is playable in a massive tent outside, so why are we still listening to this stuff about spaceships?
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Augmented reality, on the other hand, has a lot of potential corporate applications, from reading and sending emails to designing cars or spaceships.
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It will take 20223,22022 spaceships and "a million tons" of vitamin C to make life on Mars sustainable, says SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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Plans are afoot to send fleets of spaceships the size of iPhone chips toward Alpha Centauri, like clouds of butterflies across interstellar space.
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NASA hasn&apost been able to transport astronauts on its own spaceships since July 2011, when its space shuttle completed its final flight.
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Virgin Group, his venture capital investment firm, has an interest in more than 60 businesses, from trains and planes to spaceships and tech.
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One scene in the new "Guardians of the Galaxy" sequel looks a lot like a Hitchcock movie, but with more explosions and spaceships.
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Out here, they're just trying to raise ugly lizards and gas up their spaceships so they can make it to the next job.
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Walker foresees human lunar colonies as well as spaceships fueled by nuclear power to cut travel time to Mars from months to weeks.
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Little glowing spaceships zip around in tight formations, weaving through neon gates, slithering through tight tunnels, and occasionally smashing into walls at high speeds.
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"It wasn't like Flash Gordon, where everyone had great spacesuits and shiny spaceships, and everyone looked really sexy," futurist and physicist Michio Kaku says.
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In 2016, he and Mark Zuckerberg co-launched Breakthrough Starshot, an audacious plan to send tiny spaceships to our nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri.
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I'm more wanting to know, what does that feel like, where you're traveling in spaceships or pods that take you to a new place?
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The company first released its Space line of sets in 1978, and since then, fans have built hundreds of different spaceships, real and fictional.
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Instead, characters travel in spaceships and live in cities that could've been copied over from the 1950s pulp magazines where Dick's work first appeared.
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The company also hopes to refuel spaceships in Earth's orbit, saving money on how much weight they need to launch to space at once.
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All I'm getting out of this is a bunch of quick cuts between identical robots and spaceships flying around each other in ineffectual circles.
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For example, water collected in space could be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen to make rocket fuel, which could then send spaceships farther.
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While Apple's AirPods look like someone just cut the cords off of the wired Apple earbuds, the new Bose headphones look like little spaceships.
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Before he became famous for his line of electric cars and spaceships, Elon Musk was one of the founders of this pioneering internet company.
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Elon Musk unveiled his epic plan to shuttle thousands of colonists to Mars — and eventually beyond — in giant spaceships lifted by huge, reusable rockets.
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Before NASA said it wanted to lasso an asteroid, Robinson depicted a whole solar system of hollowed-out asteroid spaceships in his opus 2312.
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Hadfield, who's now retired, shares his expertise about rockets, spaceships, spacewalking, and Mars exploration in a new web course on the online platform MasterClass.
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The company is also building two more spaceships, intended to become part of the Virgin fleet for taking people to the edge of space.
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At SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, progress sometimes looks like a dramatic explosion and an assembly line of shiny new spaceships.
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So many memes, so many longsleeve shirt designs, so many memes about longsleeves—was it all cover for a fleet of papier-mâché spaceships?
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This means if no US spaceships fly next year, NASA may be in a bind to fully staff the space station with its astronauts.
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Instead of looking for megastructures and spaceships, we should consider something a bit more obvious: alien satellites and space junk in orbit around distant exoplanets.
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Great Big Story produced a fascinating dive into "Turkish Star Wars," a 1982 film about two men who crash their spaceships on a desolate planet.
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And so you can see if that's true, then adding a couple of spaceships in, your per-flight labor economics are actually getting much better.
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Its concluding battle features a rift opening up in the sky above Manhattan; spaceships carrying alien warriors stream down toward skyscrapers, spreading death and horror.
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"Insurance is in the stone ages, while people are circling Mars in spaceships in other industries," said Mark Wilson, chief executive of British insurer Aviva.
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I also have a real love of stories set on spaceships, especially ones that are all about interaction and drama between members of the crew.
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Once all the work is finished, the U.S. side of the station will have two docking ports for passenger spaceships and two for cargo ships.
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These zones may be too risky to fly new satellites or spaceships into for hundreds of years, severely limiting human access to the final frontier.
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Twelve madeleine-shaped black spaceships are hovering over Earth, and she must use her professional skills to figure out what their seven-legged inhabitants want.
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In my mind, malls have always been portals for all this gross crap—free-floating spaceships where you can live off the stuff in them.
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There, spaceships with undercarriages resembling tribal masks soar over majestic waterfalls, touching down in a story that has far more going for it than branding.
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The insides of the various spaceships and space-based habitats all seem to work from similar design concepts, as if imagined by a single designer.
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The scary creatures from 1950s films, the shark in "Jaws" or the spaceships from science-fiction movies of the 1990s now often look like jokes.
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Sure, you think of spaceships and the Force…Read more ReadPresumably, it's got a flashy hinge but is ultimately similar to previously seen hinged lightsabers.
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Its architecture typifies some newly developed parts of Istanbul and Ankara, where enormous and metallic-accented apartment complexes seem more like spaceships than human dwellings.
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The company is also building two more spaceships, intended to become part of the fleet of Virgin crafts taking people to the edge of space.
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Before they ferry people, both spaceships also had to prove they can fly astronauts to safety in the unlikely event of a rocket-launch failure.
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In Star Wars, when spaceships entered "hyperspace" and were traveling faster than the speed of light, the movie screen filled with streaks of smeared starlight.
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After nearly a decade of effort, though, NASA's Commercial Crew Program is poised to solve this predicament with new commercial spaceships from SpaceX and Boeing.
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We don't just stop at food and shelter like every other species — we go on and on to create cathedrals, concerts, spaceships, and genetic maps.
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Hawking and Milner think it's possible to design such tiny spaceships because of Moore's law, which dictates microchips will keep getting smaller and more powerful.
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There were the balls and paddles of Pong, the spaceships of Space Invaders, the asteroids of Asteroids, all of which conveyed so much with so little.
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From now on, every science-fiction film which has its cast strolling through their spaceships just as they do on Earth will seem sillier than ever.
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The crewmembers even played a game involving alien spaceships coming toward them inside the orbiting outpost, and that experience didn't throw anybody too out of whack.
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Since then, the company has consistently released sets featuring spaceships, astronauts and lunar bases, including detailed sets that draw on the hardware from real space missions.
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"We see this as a way for SpaceX to generate revenue that can be used to develop more and more advanced rockets and spaceships," Musk said.
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Fan service is calling back to things to gratuitously press your joy-buzzers, like cute bloopy robots and spaceships named for mythical 1,000-year predatory birds.
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But with Wakanda being 25 to 50 years in the future, there's of course a lot of stuff we couldn't build, like levitating trains and spaceships.
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Says he wants "upward of 24,43 spaceships or more," wants to build a "Mars colonial fleet" that will be going back and forth all the time.
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A computer-generated video showed passengers in New York boarding one of his giant spaceships, rocketing into space, and then landing in Shanghai 39 minutes later.
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The studio was skeptical this oddball space movie would resonate with audiences, even if its critters, spaceships, and memorable villains seem like obvious toys in hindsight.
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Whole skyscrapers are ripped out of their foundations in today's trailer, pulled into a darkened sky by huge alien spaceships, before being dropped back to Earth.
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ODY-C, in particular, is a science fiction world that feels unlike any other, with strange organic spaceships and a surreal mixture of magic and technology.
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UBS believes Virgin Galactic's business model, as both a tourism company and manufacturer of spaceships, mimics the growth of businesses in the early days of aviation.
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The series stars a cast of anthropomorphic dinosaurs who can "dinovolve" into their ancestral dinosaur forms and who drive spaceships that are also shaped like dinosaurs.
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One would assume that you can only play with certain spaceships in the game if you own that spaceship toy in classic games-to-life fashion.
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NASA scientists, who once engineered spaceships that allowed humans to explore the dusty moon, have also provided evidence, for decades, that humans are unequivocally warming Earth.
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In Bannon's vision, family dinner tables, spaceships, and foxholes are the only honorable places in the world; everywhere else is a pit of hedonism and laziness.
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For a company with a past littered with wild-looking computers inspired by sci-fi spaceships and little green men, the Aurora's appearance seems somewhat understated.
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In 19923, he took part in a pioneering linkup in orbit of Soviet and American spaceships that ultimately led to creation of the International Space Station.
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The super-accurate timekeeping technology could one day allow robotic and crewed spaceships to compare their local time to times broadcasted by atomic clocks on Earth.
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It is a key material in the construction of spaceships and satellites, as well as other items that must be able to withstand potentially high pressures.
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It should make you come out of the theater and feel like you're 10 years old, and want to grab your spaceships and start flying around.
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And to get there, it was prioritizing the development of new multipurpose rockets and spaceships for human missions (to the moon, to Mars, to — potentially — asteroids).
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Hawking and Milner think it's possible to design such tiny spaceships because of Moore's law, which dictates that microchips will keep getting smaller and more powerful.
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The film's surreal effects—the fish-like spaceships and looming Earth— were created using 3D-modeling, while Chan made the "Dream Capture" tech through video projection.
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Each year, CASIS releases a themed mission patch for the lab, and this year's seal showcases a few familiar droids and spaceships from the Star Wars franchise.
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Written and designed by Maxim Zhestkov, the speculative fiction's base station, rendered in intricate 3D detail, showcases living modules, research laboratories, and docks for spaceships and drones.
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In the film, Amy Adams plays a linguist hired by the U.S. government to go inside one of 12 spaceships that have touched down around the world.
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Me and my brother are always playing with them, and we built all these Lego castles and like Lego spaceships from Star Wars and stuff like that.
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In the film, aliens have landed in 12 locations around the world, but their spaceships are just sitting there, seemingly uninterested in whatever humanity is up to.
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But, as Manasvi Lingam of Harvard University and Abraham Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics observe, there is at least one further possibility: alien spaceships.
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In essence, these ensembles are spaceships made in the shape of a human body, providing a tiny bubble of Earth's atmosphere around a person while in space.
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The car, which mixes technology from F1 racecars, jets, and spaceships, was able to accelerate to 210 mph in about nine seconds during both its test runs.
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By punting them out of orbit with a 100 Gigawatt laser pulse, we could in theory accelerate the wee spaceships to 20 percent the speed of light.
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The deal involves an investment of roughly $800 million, according to the Wall Street Journal, and should fund its spaceships until operations can begin turning a profit.
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Effects like rain, soaring spaceships, and falling debris can sound more realistic than ever, turning your living room into a dome of immersive audio with overhead effects.
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The Culture series falls into the space opera genre and features many standbys of the form such as giant spaceships, planet-smashing weapons, and galaxy-spanning adventures.
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"It actually has a game on it where there are alien spaceships coming inside the space station and you gotta shoot 'em with your finger," Kelly said.
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NASA is keeping the second shuttle launchpad, 39B, and the massive Vehicle Assembly Building for its own crewed Orion spaceships and heavy-lift Space Launch System rockets.
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Within an hour, I was tooling around the system, visiting new planets and spaceships and generally doing the things I actually wanted to do in the game.
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If you like your trailers full of moody spaceships and Mark Wahlberg running away from explosions, you're going to love the teaser for Transformers: The Last Knight.
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In some ways, however, this basic dynamic — between the astronauts and those who build their spaceships and keep them safe — points to an important truth about NASA.
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Last week, Musk detailed his vision of sending huge passenger spaceships, filled with 100 colonists each, over to the Red Planet to start a self-sustaining colony.
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Absolver It's unlikely that classic genres will be going away anytime soon; this year's E3 was still full of spaceships, magic spells, and hordes of the undead.
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To date, there's never been any tangible evidence proving Lazar ever set foot inside Area 51, much less worked on alien spaceships or obtained any mysterious elements.
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With most of my spare money from the previous two years tied up in video game spaceships, the only avenue I had available was the gray market.
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Maybe, during either kind of crest, more people really do see truly strange things, as could be the case if spaceships or air forces are actually descending.
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"We see this as a way for SpaceX to generate revenue that can be used to develop more and more advanced rockets and spaceships," Mr. Musk said.
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More imminently, the next class of astronauts will be among the first people to ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon and Boeing's CST-100 Starliner commercial spaceships into orbit.
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" He went on to suggest that while warp drive and transporters are still a long way away, there could be "--big spaceships that can go far places?
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The dominant feeling, strange to say, is sadness, which may cause audiences who associate spaceships with the zap of merry mayhem to stir uneasily in their seats.
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More spaceflight history is also likely to be made in 2020, since the first astronauts to fly commercial spaceships are expected to launch in the coming months.
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There were also Ionel Talpazan's radiant spaceships and galaxies, the result, he said, of U.F.O. encounters as a child in Romania, before he came to New York.
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John Slough, the astrophysicist credited with inventing the technology necessary for nuclear-powered spaceships, advises it would be a huge financial undertaking to create a functional model.
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Pirates, treasure, spaceships, robots, and an undercurrent of transhumanist critique—Moscow-based animator Vitaliy Shushko's whip-fast animated sci-fi adventure short X-Story has it all.
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Man, we've got Samuel L. Jackson petting kittens, 21s Blockbuster love, laser blasts, spaceships, Top Gun suits, old ladies getting clocked, and super-powered Brie Larson kicking butt.
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Boucher had lots of ideas, so much so that a wall at developer Ko-Op's Montreal studio was plastered with drawings of everything from pencil sharpeners to spaceships.
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Guardians of the Galaxy 2 arrives in theaters this week, and it promises to have the cosmic adventures, spaceships, and action that made its predecessor a surprising success.
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Actually, that sounds way more fun than the film I saw, which was a wreck of spaceships and shooting and terrible green screens (despite the absurdly large budget).
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SpaceX and Tesla boss Elon Musk's vision for the colonization of Mars is as sci-fi as you'd expect with robots, glass domes and spaceships with cool names.
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At more than 60 years into the Space Age, fictional spaceships appear on our screens at a far greater frequency than the real things launch in real life.
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Other families aboard other Jupiter spaceships crashed to the surface, and as they come together, the survivors have to figure out how to survive and try to escape.
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The concept of the tractor beam originates in science fiction—often portrayed as an invisible grappling hook of sorts that could capture large spaceships and pull them in.
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Woorld is a little sandbox overlaid on a real-world environment, where players can place cartoon houses, clouds, plants, spaceships, or other props and discover interactions between them.
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Space Hulk: Deathwing is a sharp-looking cooperative shooter that tasks players with exploring a vast network of derelict spaceships as they fend off swarms of deadly aliens.
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Even on its lighter trips, when acting as an ITS tanker for refuelling other ITS spaceships, the booster will need to carry 380 tonnes of propellant into LEO.
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There's spaceships approaching bustling cities, flying robots etching walls with lasers, amazing-looking aliens, and some great looking moments as the two characters escape from danger all around.
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While past "Star Wars" games let players control superpowered Jedi who could pull spaceships out of the sky, Cal is a former apprentice working to complete his training.
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Despite the giant spaceships and baseball-playing Jedi, we can imagine living inside the world he captures—and that's a beautiful form of storytelling in and of itself.
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But supporters talk of an ancillary industry of flight simulators, space research trips, small satellite launches, research universities and an Italian fleet of suborbital spaceships copied from Virgin's.
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But for centuries, many speculative fiction writers have bucked this trend by envisioning plush spaceships decked out with opulent furnishings to support the extravagant lifestyles of elite passengers.
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Into the Unknown might not sway anyone without a curiosity for science fiction, being that you're immediately immersed in a constellation of spaceships, dinosaurs, alien monsters, and robots.
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Virgin Galactic's subsidiary The Spaceship Company is also building two more spaceships, the hulls of which were visible in a photo Whitesides showed of the company's manufacturing facility.
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However, planes and spaceships come from separate branches of Boeing, and Fehrm added that he doesn't know whether the same cost-cutting attitude trickled into Boeing's spaceship program.
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Everyone who initially thought, "oh, just a giant bug" was in for a rude awakening when they discovered they can communicate telepathically and shoot down spaceships in orbit.
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Franz von Holzhausen&aposs calling card was that at Tesla he hadn&apost created wild, futuristic vehicles that evoked spaceships or impossible constructions of curves and contorted lines.
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More than that, genre supplied a ready-made set of tools, including spaceships, planets, and aliens, plus a realm—the future—that set no limits on the imagination.
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If you are a Star Wars fan — or just a fan of movies where things go boom and spaceships go really fast — you'll probably have a good time.
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There's desperate rescue missions, trucks dodging huge blocks of falling ice, astronauts escaping from damaged spaceships, and a guy shooting the Jupiter's great Red Spot with a machine gun.
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Making spaceships out of LEGO is a highlight of my childhood, and one in which I still indulge now and then, but I never felt particularly constrained by reality.
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"As I saw Wookiees and spaceships and laser beams," he said, "it struck me as much more realistic and down-to-earth than whatever the Democrats were talking about."
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But instead of bad special effects and wires and dangling spaceships, I want to do what Stanley Kubrick did, and apply that technology from 2001 to an action movie.
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Unlike the original SpaceShipTwo vehicle, the Unity is built by The Spaceship Company, a subsidiary of Virgin Group, which is also building two more spaceships for the space company.
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There are retrofuturistic spaceships gliding across colorful skies, mysterious ancient weapons with the potential to enslave the universe, and Star-Lord in a leather jacket dancing to Hall & Oates.
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In the film, premiering on Thursday, Adams plays a linguist hired by the U.S. government to go inside one of 12 spaceships that have touched down around the world.
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It is building a space-themed tourist village near the launch site, with attractions that include a field of vegetables grown from seeds that have been carried in spaceships.
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The suspended swarm of yellow, black, and silver geometric mobiles might be abstracted bees, but more likely they're spaceships or intergalactic settlements forming the spiral of a new galaxy.
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There are the massive spaceships strategically placed in 12 locations around the world, cities in a panic-induced state of looting and rioting, and the aliens themselves, of course.
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Mason wants the microbe to live as flora on our skin or in our guts, or on the surfaces of spaceships, protecting us from the deadly rays of space.
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Something that hadn't come up earlier in the speech, while he unveiled in-orbit refuelable spaceships launched on unprecedentedly large rockets with "zero gravity games" and restaurants for passengers.
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It's not unusual for artists to play with nostalgia, but the Chainsmokers do it while also crafting futuristic drops that rely on the sound of two spaceships grinding together.
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A docking system that the new commercial U.S. spaceships will need to park at the station is scheduled to be launched aboard a SpaceX cargo ship on July 18.
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EVE Online is a relatively niche game, but one that often makes headlines thanks to its massive battles, which can involve thousands of real people piloting thousands of spaceships.
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The SpaceX CEO said he wants to build methane propellant plants that would create fuel for the spaceships on the Red Planet, rather than carrying that fuel from Earth.
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Related: Watch a Man Snowboard on Clouds 'Last Voyage' Is a Video Game About Space That Is Not About Spaceships An Intelligent Drone Takes Extreme Snowboarding to the Skies
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Projects like Breakthrough Starshot, which aims to send a fleet of tiny spaceships to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, are hoping to pave the way for this achievement.
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Romantic comedy is the only genre committed to letting relatively ordinary people — no capes, no spaceships, no infinite sequels — figure out how to deal meaningfully with another human being.
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Elon Musk's company is NASA's other partner in its Commercial Crew Program, which has funded the development of new spaceships to ferry astronauts to and from the space station.
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And for all the stunning zero-gravity imagery Gray indulges in — both within spaceships and out in hard vacuum — he knows that simple ideas can be just as striking.
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In particular, refueling spaceships in Earth's orbit could save a lot of money because companies won't need to launch a spacecraft loaded down with all that propellant into orbit.
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It's sort of like Star Wars by way of Jim Henson, with a ragtag group of talking animals piloting angular spaceships in order to ward off an evil alien force.
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Video game environments are made up of tiny triangles, which are combined in different ways to form the land, sky, mountains, spaceships, and bug-eyed monsters you see on screen.
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That way, spaceships wouldn't have to carry all their fuel with them and could top off at that these cosmic filling stations, allowing them to go even deeper into space.
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Specifically, the two researchers suggest, in a paper to be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, that FRBs might be generated by giant radio transmitters designed to push such spaceships around.
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The spaceships themselves might make a dozen trips to Mars each, limited by the travel time and the finite number of viable "launch windows" during which they could be sent.
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But there's something kind of cool about a challenge to optimize code that NASA runs on its Pleiades supercomputer to make spaceships better, so maybe it will find some takers.
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Flying spaceships aren't new for Lego Star Wars, but The Force Awakens changes things up with new sections that feel more like proper flight simulators than Galaga-style arcade games.
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In The Expanse, Mars possesses the most advanced military force in the solar system, and its elite Marines are trained to operate in deep space, onboard spaceships, and planetary surfaces.
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The plan includes detailed outlines of rocket boosters and spaceships to get there, but it remains short on details as to how to build a habitable settlement when travelers arrive.
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Elected in 2014 on a pro-business platform, Modi has come under fire for allying himself with Hindu nationalists who have made wild claims, like how ancient Indians invented spaceships.
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The problem is that the concept of "artificial intelligence" is way too potent for its own good, conjuring images of supercomputers that operate spaceships, rather than particularly clever spam filters.
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A. Alien spaceships B. Solar eclipse C. Lunar eclipse D. Unusual cloud formations AND FINALLY ... Little drummer bird It's a cockatiel using his beak to play a tiny toy drum.
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As Lautaro's trip illustrates, the psychoactive effects of vaping DMT are largely identical to those experienced while smoking it—other vapers also reported typical visuals like spaceships and machine elves.
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This means that humans can now get around in voice-controlled spaceships rather than Uber, and we've traded in the Mall of America for a fantastic marketplace in another dimension.
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Mr Milner's ideas for contacting aliens challenge some of the unexamined assumptions of America's space bureaucracy by using tiny spaceships and laser beams rather than larger craft and rocket fuel.
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And there he is with robot dogs and spaceships, and atop a giant windmill in Amazon's new wind farm, modeling a hard hat and shades and smashing a Champagne bottle.
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Only as masses of credulous people board spaceships for what they think will be a wonderful visit to the Kanamit planet does the real nature of the book become clear.
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He devoted the rest of his life, half of it spent in New York City, to rendering brightly colored spaceships whose revealed interior structures make them resemble elaborately cut gems.
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"American companies are on the cutting edge of space technology, and they're developing new rockets, spaceships, and satellites that will take us further into space faster than ever before," Pence said.
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And once we start putting people in space we're going to need to try to speed up the process of getting as many spaceships as we can get our hands on.
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Nope — it was tens of thousands of spaceships that were all docked together by scuzzy umbilicals, and they swarmed with humans and other people, all who lived to serve The Vastness.
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Elon Musk on Mars shuttle fleet plans The idea would be to launch a fleet of spaceships at once to maximize the cargo and passenger capacity for a trip to Mars.
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Lego's Architecture series gives adult fans the perfect excuse to keep buying the building toy—because they appreciate the design of the buildings, not because they secretly wanted to build spaceships.
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Oichi Angelis and her companions are taking their ship, the Olympia, into a system known as Charion to a planet that they call Graveyard, where three massive, alien spaceships are waiting.
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In hospitals that often feel like the inside of spaceships, we're somehow left quantifying how we feel with this thing: There are some interesting ideas already in the pipeline, Grosser notes.
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This month he also unveiled plans to send an armada of tiny spaceships, powered by laser beams and equipped with all sorts of sensors, to Alpha Centauri, 40 trillion kilometres away.
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By 2023, Musk hopes to launch the company's first space tourist — a Japanese billionaire named Yusaku Maezawa — in one of the spaceships, along with a small crew of hand-picked artists.
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Click here to view original GIFCastles, spaceships, maybe even a few animals, those are the typical things that will jump out as you turn the pages of most pop-up books.
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In April, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and super-famous physicist Stephen Hawking announced they had an idea to send teeny, tiny spaceships to Alpha Centauri, the next closest star after Proxima.
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Image: Hubble Space TelescopeAnother fascinating element to this approach is that some of these interstellar objects could actually be alien spaceships or probes, or even an asteroid with technologies installed onto it.
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"I think you need to have that in Star Wars, without it it's just a load of explosions and robots and spaceships and Star Wars is more than that," added the director.
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In A New Hope, Luke, Leia, and Han are attacked by a dianoga, an octopus-like animal that is transported across the galaxy as microscopic larvae in the garbage compactors of spaceships.
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Case in point: when Peter Parker notices one of Thanos' spaceships hovering over New York City, he asks his buddy Ned for a distraction so he can sneak off the school bus.
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The products they were selling had no oversight and lot of them seemed explicitly targeted to children, like bongs shaped like spaceships and frisbees with pipes and "you're the dealer" board games.
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There are fighter-sized spaceships that are great for localized scouting, high-speed combat, and the like, and then there are freighter-sized ships that serve as more of a mobile home.
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Currently SpaceX is only devoting 5 percent of its resources to building its Mars rockets and spaceships, though it hopes to get more help from public and private partnerships in the future.
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And unless your money is burning a hole in your pocket or you're a big fan of collecting plastic spaceships and accoutrements, I cannot recommend playing with the physical toys at all.
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Arcane spaceships and crystal technology indistinguishable from magic cross wires with good old-fashioned combustion engine car chases and creepy, voyeuristic villains while Carpenter Brut's 80s revival soundrack booms in the background.
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The lust for spaceships was so strong that people were putting up keys for other games, currency from other MMOs, and services like web design or custom portraits of your spaceship pilot.
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The little libraries come in all shapes — as boxcars, birdfeeders and barns; spaceships, robots and roosters; Victorian mansions, log cabins and even the replicas of the houses they stand in front of.
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In several books, many television appearances and hundreds of speeches around the world, Mr. Friedman demonstrated little doubt that alien spaceships had come and gone, and that extraterrestrials had walked the Earth.
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The world of speculative romance is rife with werewolves and shape-shifters, angels and demons and oh so many vampires, but spaceships are woefully thin on the ground (and in the air).
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The test was part of NASA&aposs Commercial Crew program, a partnership between the space agency and private companies to build spaceships that can ferry astronauts to and from the space station.
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He has a particular gift for capturing size and scope, contrasting tiny spaceships against massive planets the way 19th-century art of the sublime used small human figures in vast natural landscapes.
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" Before working at The Studio, Harris was a concept designer and effects artist for films and TV shows, designing props, spacesuits and spaceships, like the suits seen in "Solaris" and "Star Trek: Enterprise.
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The former powers spaceships or bombs, while the latter is just another particle that physicists study, one that happens to be the mirror image with the opposite charge of the more familiar particles.
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Virgin invests in Hyperloop One Branson's family-owned Virgin Group is a venture capital ivestment firm with interest in more than 60 businesses, with trains, planes and spaceships bearing the Virgin brand name.
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SpaceX's passenger spaceships, which are expected to begin flying in 2018, will be outfitted with an emergency escape system that can fly the capsule away from a failing rocket before or during launch.
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Robots and spaceships are great, and if I was being shown a high-energy trailer cut together from radical shots of explosions and dogfights then yeah, I'd probably be mad pumped right now.
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In March 2017, Loeb caused a media frenzy by suggesting that FRBs could actually be of alien origin—solar-powered radio transmitters that might be interstellar light sails pushing huge spaceships across galaxies.
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My first conversation with him was that spaceships should be things you see in garages with oil dripping and they keep repairing them to keep them going, because that's how the world is.
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It has spaceships, for one thing, an inclusion that makes any game better, as well as interesting zero-gravity arenas that will let players make use of new traversal tools like grappling hooks.
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Oscar Health has a vision of fairer prices for consumers SpaceX launching spaceships to Mars next year Silicon Valley tech bubble is larger than it was in 2000, and the end is coming
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Naturally everyone wants to think it's spaceships or planets full of hyperintelligent broadcasters sending out signals to us, though of course they would have had to send them a long, long time ago.
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Though the story struggles under the weight of its many symbols—ghostly coyotes, crucifix-like cacti, 9/11, alien spaceships, the Sea of Galilee—it powerfully evokes the sense of being an outsider.
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The famed physicist, cosmologist, and space travel advocate announced his plan this week to team up with Russian billionaire Yuri Milner to purchase a fleet of tiny spaceships that could launch interstellar travel.
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For instance, the 2013 film Elysium uses the titular super-wealthy orbital enclave to critique the same capitalist ideas that first gave rise to luxury spaceships, particularly the polarizing effects of income inequality.
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The show's handling of space travel may be the most impressive thing about it: There's no artificial gravity, and spaceships have to fly plausible trajectories that account for the gravitational pull of planets.
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Musk's love of books and the lessons he took from them inspired him to create "cleaner energy technology or [build] spaceships to extend the human species's reach" in the future, according to Vance.
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Commercial Crew astronaut Suni Williams previously told Business Insider that she and other astronauts had warned SpaceX and Boeing that early versions of their spaceships showed the crew too little on-screen information.
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Attentive space-spotters may note a curious discontinuity between Hawking's recent history of aliens-are-going-to-kill-us-all paranoia and his abrupt interest in, well, trying to find aliens via tiny spaceships.
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Ufologists don't have a theoretical framework for explaining how aliens could build spaceships that come here and behave the way observers claim, or how an alien could survive the trip and the sojourn here.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Spaceships, flying lobsters and a team based on characters from the hit mobile game "Angry Birds" attempted lift-off from Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour at the annual Red Bull Flugtag competition.
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Rather than the manned spaceships we've always associated with space exploration in science fiction, our new understanding of galaxies and the universe are being pushed forward by telescopes, in space and on the ground.
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When's the last time you saw a summer movie that could make your heart skip a beat with a car chase, instead of spaceships, superheroes, or the return of franchise characters from your childhood?
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In the trailer, we see one of the alien's spaceships crash on Earth, apparently triggered by a boy (Jacob Tremblay) playing with a Predator helmet and armor that he finds in a delivered package.
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Spaceships have become all but obsolete, but when a crashed alien spacecraft is found on a newly-discovered world, a team is sent out to investigate it and the strange cargo that it carries.
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Photographer Alfred Lee has captured a stunning image of an unusual cloud in the skies above Hong Kong—one that bears a striking resemblance to the invading Martian spaceships in War of the Worlds.
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I suspect a lot of folks heard "a game about mechs by the FTL devs" and imagined the same set up as Subset's last game, but with giant robots in place of the spaceships.
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CIG had created a marketplace where people could turn a profit solely by being a middleman between CIG and people wanting the finest spaceships on at launch, a date still years away at best.
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Now in the summer months, tourists like me arrive in big ferries, while yachts fill the bay and slick boats that look like spaceships shine their bright underwater spotlights into the empty sea below.
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Mr. Young flew twice in Gemini spaceships, flew on the Apollo mission that preceded Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's landing on the lunar surface and later drove a rover vehicle through the moon's highlands.
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This plan involves a whole new generation of spaceships designed for transporting Martian colonists en masse, as well as the successful development of the Falcon Heavy, which will be the largest rocket ever made.
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The spaceships made by Musk-run SpaceX use a related thruster design that's powered by nitrogen stored in composite canisters for maneuvering, and the lightweight containers could be adopted for automotive use with atmospheric air.
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"Since we put two spaceships into space ... and made five new astronauts—the first astronauts to have been made on American soil since 2009—we've had 2,500 people ask to sign up," Branson told CNBC.
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On September 27th he outlined new plans for rockets that dwarf the Apollo programme's Saturn V, and for spaceships with room for around 100 passengers that can be refuelled both in orbit and on Mars.
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In the sci-fi universe of "Star Trek," spaceships with warp drives can zoom past the normally impenetrable limit of light speed, or about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum.
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According to Musk, the company will need to develop a system that's fully reusable, which means that rocket boosters and spaceships should be recycled after each use and launched again, and fuel ships in orbit.
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I just picked up Lego Worlds, mainly to try its new 'Classic Space' DLC—basically a whole bunch of fun spaceships and space-themed things to play with—and thus far, I'm very into it.
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The setup turns on one of those alien mysteries (an extraterrestrial or a monolith or floating spaceships) that have come to Earth to wreak havoc or hatch conspiracies and force humans to make bad choices.
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Cities in the United States where rockets were built, astronauts were trained and spaceships were launched are pulling out the stops to celebrate the men and women who got us into space, and back again.
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CreditCreditAndrew Urwin for The New York Times OXFORDSHIRE, England — In a white industrial building in the rolling hills of the English countryside 216 miles from Oxford, silver machines shaped like spaceships hum inside vast laboratories.
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Instead of building and operating its own spaceships as NASA did for the space shuttles, which were retired in 2011, the agency has now turned to SpaceX and Boeing to provide the transportation of astronauts.
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The subsequent films are also stuffed with cool aliens, spaceships and other hints at that broader world — a world further fleshed out in the gone-but-not-forgotten expanded universe of novels, comics and video games.
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You rarely feel as if you've lost much, though, I'll admit, I felt a little bad for some of my poor prisoners, conscripted as they were through bureaucratic nightmare hell to strip spaceships of their loot.
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The vector plotter takes the improbability of that particular nice hot cup of tea, converts it into the identical improbability of intergalactic travel, and, presto, spaceships can travel, instantly, through every point of every conceivable universe.
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Inside computers, there are, boringly, just voltage levels that control physical objects called screens that, when viewed by human beings, produce the mistaken-yet-amusing belief that one is watching trees, spaceships, explosions, and the like.
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And as is the case in any war, only those with their boots on the ground—or in this case, the bridges of EVE's array of armed-and-dangerous spaceships—know the reality of the situation.
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At its best, ReCore makes you feel like you're in that scene from early in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, when a masked Rey spelunks through ancient, crumbling spaceships, scavenging any usable bits she can find.
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There's a colorful, distinct 16-bit style to everything, and some areas—spaceships, futuristic cities, alien landscapes—even look a little like Metroid, if Metroid were much funkier and more committed to neon pinks and greens.
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She is borne away, by night, in a military helicopter, introduced on board to Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), a scientist from Los Alamos, and flown to Montana, where one of the spaceships has come to rest.
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It's a portrayal that has left little room for other interpretations, which is why Black Panther's vision of Wakanda as a bustling metropolis of vibranium-powered futuristic skyscrapers, racing trains, and soaring spaceships feels so refreshing.
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Two of my favorite characters are women of color: Naomi Nagata, portrayed with incredible force and command by Dominique Tipper, is the brilliant chief engineer of a range of spaceships that our core cast find themselves on.
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The Mega Tracks trains, which look more like spaceships than locomotives, ride along the set's single rail TwisTrack which is flexible enough to be looped around furniture and snaked through all the hazards in a messy bedroom.
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The Rocinante, a ship crewed by Captain James Holden, mechanic Amos Burton, and pilot Alex Kamal, is escorting a flotilla of spaceships that are headed out to the ring to investigate it, accompanied by a documentary crew.
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When mysterious spaceships arrive in 12 locations around the world, linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) heads the investigation for the United States as she and her team attempt to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrials.
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And doing that with friends old and new, as you zip about in stunning spaceships, claiming territories as your own and forging alliances when diplomacy takes precedent over torpedoes—that sounds cooler than just about anything else.
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Brad Pitt and Katy Perry are among those who have reportedly plunked down $210,21 for a ride on one of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spaceships, undaunted by a 0003 test flight that crashed and killed one pilot.
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The speakers include Jeremy Corbell, the director of a movie on Netflix about Bob Lazar, who says he reverse-engineered alien spaceships at Area 51 — both of whom reportedly served as inspiration for Mr. Roberts's Facebook post.
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However, "MARS" successfully drives home a bleak concept that arguably gets lost in the excitement over the next phase of space exploration: It won't be easy, and space isn't filled with glittering metropolises, massive spaceships and friendly aliens.
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"Boeing sees this as an exciting time in the space industry as we build rockets for launch, test new spaceships, and develop innovative technologies for keeping humans alive on orbit in deep space," the world's top planemaker said.
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You do not have hours and hours to commit to staring at a screen, navigating a fantastical virtual world, slaying monsters or flying spaceships or disassembling androids or whatever the fuck the Next Big Game demands of you.
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Shortly after leaving BMW, he launched Chris Bangle Associates, a design consultancy that opened up new ways to apply his 30 years of experience designing cars to other mediums from super yachts, to Japanese spaceships, to Samsung products.
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"Since we put two spaceships into space earlier this year, and made five new astronauts – the first astronauts to have been made on American soil since 2009 – we've had 2,500 people ask to sign up," Branson told CNBC.
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The object has to be incredibly small, less than 50 micrometers in diameter, for the experiment to work, which means that you unfortunately won't be trapping any passing spaceships by pointing your laser pointer towards the stars.[YouTube]
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But a new animation by the planetary and space scientist James O'Donoghue, who used to work at NASA and is now employed by JAXA (Japan's national space agency), grounds the warp drives of those fictional spaceships in reality.
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Starlink: Battle for Atlas, coming out on Tuesday, is a sci-fi adventure game with an optional toys-to-life element that allows players to customize their loadout by attaching physical pilots, spaceships, and weapons to their controllers.
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Related: 'Last Voyage' Is a Video Game About Space That Is Not About Spaceships This Man Is Using Math To Create An Impossible 4D Video Game Surreal 3D Video Game Puts an Architectural Spin on the Exquisite Corpse
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I made them play space-basketball together, I had no idea… Classic Space is basically an extended playset with a moon-like theme, with numerous spaceships big and small to pilot, copy, re-color, or build all over.
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With Bitmoji TV, your avatar and those of your friends will appear in regularly scheduled adventures ranging from playing the crew of Star Treky spaceships to being secret agents to falling in love with robots or becoming zombies.
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People very much still know Jamiroquai's name, style, DJ his hits at the world's best underground parties, and it's safe to say he probably has enough money to buy a roundtrip ticket on one of Elon Musk's spaceships.
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But as the old adage goes, it's important to look before you leap, which is why Milner and ESO want to figure out what we might expect from this alien solar system were we to send spaceships there.
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Another treaty that may need to be updated is the "Rescue Agreement", which states that astronauts are "envoys of mankind" and should be protected (and rescued, if necessary) if they disembark from their spaceships in a foreign state.
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Sending spaceships and landing craft to and from the moon is expensive, and the more equipment we were able to leave on the lunar surface, the easier and cheaper it was to bring astronauts home after the Apollo missions.
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We've looked at some of these classic science fiction films and franchises, their hero spaceships and the various guesses at just how fast any of them can travel and applied it all to our planned trip to TRAPPIST-1.
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The Verge spoke with Lego designer Simon Kent recently, who explained that he and his colleagues recently visited with NASA engineers and personnel to compare their toys against the real spaceships, rovers, and space stations currently in operation today.
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Having that money in the company, it replaces the Saudi money, and it will be very helpful in getting more people, getting more spaceships on the way to be developed, getting another mothership built and finishing up the job.
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Between art depicting giant spaceships, alien worlds, and fantastic robots, author Jeffrey Campbell wrote short, connected interludes that flesh out the world and characters, detailing adventures of people stranded in alien deserts, assassination attempts, burned-out pilots, and more.
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Players will pilot one of Earth's military spaceships Reyes will be battling the forces of the Settlement Defense Front, an insurgency that seceded from the suitably sci-fi-sounding United Nations Space Alliance over the issue of Earth's colonies.
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Indeed, the look of the show -- from the spaceships to the makeup, the production design to the costumes -- is almost a slavish recreation with modest wrinkles, to the point where one begins to wonder how it all cleared legal.
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The company plans to use a huge rocket to launch Mars-bound spaceships filled with at least 100 people to orbit before landing the booster back on Earth and prepping it to launch again with very little turnaround time.
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Eric Joyce, a project manager, added that the Archinaut should also be able to help astronauts repair their spaceships without having to improvise materials and take the kinds of risks that the Apollo 13 crew did back in 1970.
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Sure, you think of spaceships and the Force…Read more ReadThe Writers of Avengers: Endgame on Why All Those Deleted Scenes Didn&apost Make It Into the MovieDeleted scenes allow fans to make a movie they love even longer.
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Suffice to say that various items need to be collected from planets with exotic names, and that bad guys cackle and rant on the bridges of massive spaceships while good guys zip around bravely doing the work of resistance.
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Eventually, he published his short fiction in sci-fi magazines, and won acclaim for his strange, surreal stories, which sometimes take place on distant planets or intergalactic spaceships heading for habitable worlds, but often center on strained family bonds.
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Creator Murray has said that when he plays the game, he often likes to stop and just watch the world, to watch spaceships pass in and out of the game's spaceports, to admire the self-sustaining beauty of the system.
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"We are long overdue to have spaceships launched that have a destination other than low-Earth orbit," deGrasse Tyson said, adding jokingly that he would urge the around-the-moon space tourists to "take a lot of pictures" during their journey.
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In 2003, she claimed that her near-future novel of gene manipulation and climate change Oryx and Crake was speculative fiction because it didn't include "monsters and spaceships"; recently, she has begun to refer to The Handmaid's Tale as science fiction.
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Virgin Galactic is in a race with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to send tourists into space, and the company expects the deal will provide enough capital to fund the business until its commercial spaceships can operate and turn a profit.
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Deliberately paced but highly rewarding, Arrival ups its IQ with Jeremy Renner as a soulful physicist, gorgeous production design (those minimalist spaceships might inspire Darth Vader to declutter) and a poignant twist that brings the drama back to the human level.
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The seats move in tandem with the spaceships on screen; you get blasted in the face with air whenever a stormtrooper is shot; the theater fills with actual smoke when the Millennium Falcon is in need of repair, and so on.
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At 2016's EVE Fanfest in Iceland, where hardcore players of CCP's sci-fi MMO come together to talk massive spaceships, interstellar coup d'etats and such like, two Project Arena experiences are on show, playable by press and average Joes alike.
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The considerable expense was covered by Yuri Milner, a Russian philanthropist and entrepreneur, who wanted Dr. Hawking on hand to help announce a new project to see if we can fly iPhone-like spaceships to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star.
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The Force Awakens relied heavily on practical effects — a point director J.J. Abrams labored in the run-up to the film's release — but in a galaxy with spaceships, strange aliens, and world-crushing superweapons, some computer-generated work was obviously required.
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He's learned that it may be easier for some people to excel in extreme endurance pursuits if they carry lots of fuel in their bodies, as the keto diet allows, rather than on their backs, bikes — or in their spaceships.
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By the time the Italians left in 1942, they had built edifices with off-white petrol stations the shape of aircraft and pastel villas the size of spaceships, leaving a remarkable legacy of Art Deco and Futurist architecture throughout the city.
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The most unrealistic aspect of any science fiction movie isn&apost the time travel or faster-than-light spaceships — it&aposs that ordinary technology never suffers from mundane glitches, like a PS4 DualShock controller failing to connect to its console.
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There's some jumbled, vaguely science fictional worldbuilding involving spaceships and people from planets of darkness or planets of heat, but frankly Roth could've set the whole thing on a single planet and cut down on the potential special effects budget.
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Eventually, the company hopes to have about 1,000 spaceships flying at least 100 people each between Earth and Mars, and Musk thinks it could take as little as 40 to 100 years to create a civilization on the rusty world.
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CBS debuted a full trailer for Star Trek: Discovery today, showing off a clip stuffed with plenty of Federation action, spaceships, and a ton of new characters, in a story set a decade before Captain Kirk and Spock ventured out in the Enterprise.
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We've seen reboots of Star Wars and Star Trek in the last few years, not to mention films such as Prometheus, Jupiter Ascending, and Guardians of the Galaxy; spaceships have returned to television through shows such as The Expanse, Dark Matter, and Killjoys.
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Materials Modification is working on a specialized trash bag rigged up with a heat melt compactor that would reduce the volume of trash onboard the ISS—or any future crewed spaceships—while also mining water from the waste and decreasing microbial growth.
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Arrival is the definition of a crowd-pleaser: optimistic about humanity, creative about portraying alien spaceships, semi-interested in romance, and full of brain-bending plot twists your younger brother can feel free to declare "[eyeroll] so obvious" while secretly being impressed.
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In addition to all of the standard alien species you might expect from a Star Wars film — Wookies and Hutts, for instance — Knights of the Old Republic (known as KOTOR by its fandom) features spaceships, droids and most importantly, a riveting story.
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The decision to combine both practical and computer effects resulted in a movie that feels much more grounded than the prequels, but one that still works as a space fantasy matinee, allowing rubber-suited aliens to rub shoulders with cutting-edge CG spaceships.
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But anyone concerned about America's national security shouldn't let thoughts of spaceships or lasers overshadow the fact that the United States has significant security interests in space — in the form of our satellites — that we need to protect, especially against cyber threats.
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Read More: New 'Starshot' Mission Aims to Send Tiny Spaceships to the Nearest Star System But as the phrase "interstellar precursor" suggests, the idea here is to create a potential facilitator of journeys between stars, rather than lay down a direct route.
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More than anything, "First Dads" provides a valuable reminder that while an American president may have the clout to launch spaceships and end world wars, that doesn't mean he can get his children to behave, be happy or even return his calls.
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It has spurred waves of activism on both sides of the legalization debate, going from a much-feared gateway drug to the subject of toys — bongs shaped like spaceships, frisbees with pipes — aimed at children to a lucrative source of money for big companies.
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In one example Apple showed on stage, a user walked around an empty table — but by viewing the table though his iPad, he saw a battle taking place right on the table, complete with spaceships flying in and dropping bombs, shooting missiles and more.
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In a telephone interview, Ms. Jemisin, 43, who lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn (and who writes a column for The New York Times Book Review every two months), spoke about what the award means to her, diversity in science fiction, and spaceships as phallic symbols.
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The Advent case (above) is only a bumper, which means it only covers the sides of the phone, but it's designed with grade 5 titanium found in spaceships and Formula 1 cars, so you can rest easy when you drop it on the pavement.
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Empty, unused accounts registered before certain dates could still receive stretch goal rewards, like potted plants or fish tanks, so even if they owned no spaceships at all, others would pay them hundreds of dollars for the privilege of getting a few vanity items.
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It culminates with new footage that shows our heroes together taking a field trip to a desert locale, spaceships bleep-bloop-blinking at light speed, a new glimpse at the character known as Jannah, and Rey and Kylo Ren engaged in an epic battle.
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More reports: Martian spaceships have landed elsewhere, the governor of New Jersey has declared martial law, the president has declared a national emergency, the Army Air Corps has been destroyed, and people are urged to evacuate cities because the Martians are using poison gas.
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The interstellar-fighting game, which pitted spaceships worth an estimated $1 million on each side of the two main alliances, ended in victory for the Moneybadger Coalition, who defended their Keepstar space station, defeating for the Imperium alliance, also known as the Clusterfuck Corporation.
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The interstellar-fighting game, which pitted spaceships worth an estimated $23 million on each side of the two main alliances, ended in victory for the Moneybadger Coalition, who defended their Keepstar space station, defeating for the Imperium alliance, also known as the Clusterfuck Corporation.
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The group first came together in the spring of 1975 in Los Angeles, where Applewhite, a onetime choirmaster from Texas, and Bonnie Lu Nettles, a former nurse, regaled a group of meditation enthusiasts with their belief that spaceships would someday arrive to carry away their spirits.
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Set mostly on the Earth of the 1990s, with some interludes in generic spaceships and on utterly uninteresting alien planets, it has no scope for the world-building that contributed so much to last year's "Black Panther", set in the beautifully imagined African kingdom of Wakanda.
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Icelandic developer CCP's long-running space-opera MMO, in which players zip about a massive galaxy in spaceships, trading and building and fighting and destroying, has been turned into a warzone on numerous occasions—and these eruptions of violence bear stark resemblance to actual historical conflicts.
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The next day, he began filling pages upon pages of notebook paper with drawings of spaceships and colorful cosmic phenomenon, even as he kept Leon rapt by spinning long, complicated stories about "ice ages, burning planets, and the creation of the universe," according to Tor's Adam Mitchell.
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Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series Prepare yourself for the upcoming HBO adaptation by reading the classic sci-fi series, which is like Game of Thrones except there are spaceships instead of dragons, discussions of trade agreements instead of battles, and complete sexlessness instead of smokin' hot incest.
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Working 250 miles (402 km) above Earth, the astronauts expected the spacewalk to last 6.5 hours as they work to reconfigure the $100 billion station, operated by 15 nations, and add docking ports for new spaceships in development by Boeing and Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX.
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Also aboard the capsule was a metal docking ring of diameter 7.8 feet (2.4 m), that will be attached to the station, letting commercial spaceships under development by SpaceX and Boeing ferry astronauts to the station, a $100-billion laboratory that flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.
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That book followed Captain James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante as they accompanied an expedition made up of various spaceships from around the Solar System to investigate the ring gate that was constructed by an alien substance called the protomolecule throughout the show's second and third seasons.
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It's weird for me to engage in video game fantasies that are both completely realistic—I could, if I really wanted to, drive a very fast car, whereas I can't actually date attractive alien ladies or fly spaceships—and things I have no desire to do in real life.
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Over three years later, I have a thoroughly more entertaining story than any tale of interstellar adventure: Thanks to a thriving gray market for virtual spaceships in a game not even released yet, I was able to wheel and deal my way to thousands of dollars in profit.
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Article continues after the video below Watch our short film on the competitive gaming world of 'Smite' Baseless theories about how the game might eventually work had everyone believing that their thousands of dollars' worth of spaceships were going to represent a good investment once the game came out.
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China isn't typically known for its science fiction blockbusters, but a new trailer for an upcoming film called The Wandering Earth has all the hallmarks of a big, Hollywood-style genre movie: it features a dramatic story of the Earth in peril, complete with eye-popping scenes of spaceships escaping Earth.
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Also aboard the capsule was a metal docking ring of diameter 7.8 feet (2.4 m), that will be attached to the station, letting commercial spaceships under development by SpaceX and Boeing Co. ferry astronauts to the station, a $100-billion laboratory that flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.
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In the second trailer for the upcoming season of Doctor Who, fans get a glimpse at some of the planet-hopping adventures that make Doctor Who so popular along with a look at some of the supporting cast, spaceships, and even an alien lifeform that has a whole bunch of tentacles.
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It also can't hurt that the shift to the further future lets players tool around in ludicrously speedy spaceships, fire outlandish laser cannons, and battle humanoid robots, giving Infinity Ward space to make the kind of linear roller-coaster of a game it became famous for on a new scale.
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Having tested the waters of just about every other travel business over the course of his lengthy career, fixing his name to trains, planes and spaceships after initially launching Virgin as a record store, the entrepreneur says the launch of the ship marks the realization of a long-held ambition.
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Nova envisions a universe boiling over with star-hopping spaceships, spine-socketed crew members, weirdly mutated sexual and familial relationships, synesthetic video-art instruments, and at least one character raised on another planet who speaks in a verb-delaying syntax several years before Yoda was a gleam in George Lucas's eye.
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Arrival is science fiction as we rarely see it: There are aliens and spaceships, but Denis Villeneuve's film (based on a novella by Ted Chiang) is much more interested in how language not only lets us talk to one another, but actually shapes the way we perceive and imagine the world.
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Suspecting that deep secrets are hidden there — in the form of captured aliens (dead or alive), crashed extraterrestrial spaceships and futuristic weaponry — U.F.O. die-hards have long pushed the government to come clean about the facility, which was established in 1955 as an annex of the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site.
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In January 1969, a car in which he was riding with three other former cosmonauts — part of a motorcade that included the Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev — was entering the Kremlin for a celebration marking the docking of two Russian spaceships when a man wielding a pistol in each hand opened fire.
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It's a treat watching M and H zip around the globe in all kinds of space-age vehicles that tease the imagination: A rundown New York City subway car becomes a warp-speed train with express stops to London and Paris; a motorcycle has a surprise hyperdrive mode; cars transform into glowing spaceships.
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The tweet, posted on Friday on the Twitter account of the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS), took aim at UFO fans and curiosity seekers who poured into the Nevada desert this week, after an online campaign to "storm" the U.S. military base long rumored to house government secrets about extraterrestrial life and spaceships.
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As many of Rejjie's fans will be aware, Dear Annie has been teased for years – nearly half a decade – before emerging this February in a stream of colorful jazz and soul ("23"), telling stories of love and lust ("Egyptian Luvr") that sound as though they've been beamed down from a flower garden somewhere above the clouds ("Spaceships").
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It can also provide a sort of opponent-tracking radar when everyone in a battle has GPS turned on, and when you attach your smartphone to the front of either weapon, there's even a single-player augmented reality mode where you can shoot at enemy spaceships that appear over a live feed from your phone's camera.
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This is the most we've heard about the progress of Virgin Galactic's commercial passenger jet plan since the accident happened in 2014, and Branson tells Bloomberg that despite delays and the advent of new competitors in the space, including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX, they'll still "never be able to build enough spaceships" to satisfy demand.
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Another design question: I get why the spaceships in Star Wars always have these gritty exteriors full of clunky panels and dangling widgets poking out everywhere—no need for sleek exterior panels in the vacuum of space, so might as well have everything open for droids—but how does that nonsense carry down onto planets themselves?
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Sure, you think of spaceships and the Force…Read more ReadAccording to Business Insider, which cited former employees familiar with the matter, MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe instructed employees to change the passwords of a "small percentage of power users" ahead of the release of Avengers: Infinity War in an attempt to cut off their ability to order tickets.
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In the starkly titled "Google Invades," she argues that the Google buses symbolized "the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us," and compares the tech workers to the Prussian army invading Paris, while noting in passing that she, a Connecticut native, had sold her Mission District apartment to a Google engineer in 2011.
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"Anything that's fun and over the top—like, there's an entire planet that's a concert venue willed with every kind of alien in the Marvel Universe, or a space battle with a thousand junk spaceships with a fleet of metalhead aliens versus a Valkyrie in a mecha suit—we could go wild on that," he says.
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Once you figure out what kind of idea and what kind of person you want to explore, you want to set up a plot scenario that allows you to explore those ideas effectively, which may or may not involve murder and mayhem, which may or may not involve a mystery, which may or may not involve spaceships, I don't know.
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For going on is what we do, building bridges, spaceships and families, composing great symphonies and other works of art, directing movies, and waging wars and presidential campaigns, even though not only are we going to die, but so is all life everywhere in the fullness of eternity, according to what science now thinks it knows about us and the universe.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: Pablo Lopez, "Trippy Duck," 2018 (Original uncropped version below)Gifs lit up Web 1.0 like Las Vegas—the torches, crystal balls, humping muppets, dancing babies, mailboxes opening and closing to indicate that you've got mail—all signaling that crimson castles, their divorced dads clubs, and in-browser spaceships were hip and exciting places to be.
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Set in the relatively near future where humanity has developed spaceships that can travel faster than light, and technology that puts people in stasis for long journeys, the story of the 10-episode first season (four episodes were provided for previews) largely follows Niko Breckinridge (Katee Sackhoff), a veteran astronaut who was involved in a disastrous mission to Saturn nine years before that left half the crew dead.
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Disney and Lucasfilm may have marketed this "Star Wars" story as an offshoot, but fans of the galaxy way, way out there will find many familiar things here: Yes, there are impossibly big spaceships looming over the plains of far-off planets; yes, our heroes have smaller, rustier laser guns than their clean, evil opponents; and yes, there's a witty robot chiming in at inopportune moments to tell them the odds.
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For a very long time I questioned whether the kind of work I write, fantasy that isn't particularly interested in medieval Europe and old Western myths and, in some cases, science fiction that isn't interested in the typical Golden Age future that you used to see, where you saw Middle America, straight white guys, up in space doing things with phallically shaped spaceships and weapons, and spreading democracy and truth, justice and the American way — I've never been interested in that.
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