29 March 2018
NASA Voyager 1&2 Owners’ Workshop Manual
...the famous ‘golden record’ (which contained a multimedia cultural ‘message from Earth’ championed by the late Carl Sagan...his foreword, “We knew that it was unlikely that [an] alien culture would chance upon either Voyager, but what the record said ...
20 May 2022
Science Fiction
...fiction and ‘space’ in all its forms… exploration, development, art, culture, etc. It is for this reason that we have included a review ..., and real space actors from NASA to Elon Musk. The cultural impact of the Space Shuttle is also covered, but the ...
19 September 2023
The Astronomer’s Chair
... a social document. In the well-practised method of arts-based research, it “embeds” the images “back into a thick cultural context”, reconstructs a “conventionalized and value-laden perspective” and reveals how the chairs were “positioned within...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
...either be ‘green’ or won’t be at all. Popular culture, including movies such as Blade Runner, has certainly played a...every way and we, in turn, become obsolete? Besides philosophy, popular culture is once again there to help us think. Blade Runner is ...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... environment. The software included various demographic variables associated with birth and death rates, as well as several cultural variables such as marriage choice or polygamy. While his code was aimed towards the human colonisation of unoccupied...
March 2019
Laying the foundations for cosmic habitation
.... Nikitina-Hefliger (right), Chair of Asgardia’s Culture Committee and the president of the Musical Olympus Foundation, spoke during the... cultural session at the Caspian Week Conference in Davos,...
