May 2024
Spaceflight revolution on a shoestring
... larger than terrestrial ones are enabling breakthrough discoveries. There are wide environmental benefits. This is not a science fiction dream. There is a roadmap for space launch that could achieve this scenario within about 15 years, using...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... item in future space colonies, it wouldn’t come about until they had a very plentiful food production capability.” Science fiction Space presents a whole raft of challenges for alcohol production never experienced on Earth All too frequently, NASA...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
... of plastic discs or aluminium plates strung in a way that was reminiscent of chainmail. Rabanne extended his research to popular science fiction when he designed the costumes for the classic cult film Barbarella in 1968, which is set in the 41st...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
..., without having to undergo prior modifications, nor significant alterations deemed too dangerous or disabling. But scientists and science fiction writers have been quick to consider interfering with the boundaries of the body itself; the first step...
13 April 2019
Space Sirens, Scientists and Princesses
... earlier movies and rarely appeared as leading characters, but there are many interesting exceptions to the rule in science fiction. Think: Ripley in The Alien franchise, the ‘tooled up’ Sarah Conner in Terminator 2 and Trinity in the Matrix. As with...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
...that you can put outside of the Space Station. Now, in science fiction it looks easy, going from inside to outside of the space .... One of the things you don’t get to see in science fiction movies (because they’re usually too busy saving the universe) ...
