brennansv, to random
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Just watched Hackers again over the weekend. I did not notice this before. Penn Jillette plays the sysadmin who assists The Plague with the Gibson was named Hal. That is a great callback.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/fullcredits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

EllisCrawford, to chemistry

Absolutely loving the latest front cover for Chemical Science Journal!

Congratulations to Felipe Garcia, Pablo García Álvarez, Javier F. Reynes, Javier A. Cabeza and Rubén García Soriano for the brilliant paper too!

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2023/SC/D3SC02709K

FreiGuy86, (edited ) to movies

Going down a rabbit hole of #movies I haven't seen that influenced #StarWars. Here's my list so far.

The 7th Voyage of #Sinbad
2001: A #SpaceOdyssey
The Adventure of #RobinHood
#Casablanca
Dersu Uzala
The Guns of Navarone
#FlashGordon
#HiddenFortress
Jason and the Argonauts
Lawrence of Arabia
#Metropolis
Once upon a time in the #West
The Searchers
#SevenSamurai
Yojimbo

So far I've watched Sinbad and Casablanca.

#LucasFilm #Disney #SciFi #Adventure #Fantasy #Western #Samurai #Film

TheSpaceshipper, to scifi
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2001: A space Odyssey (1968): Orion III Spaceplane & Space Station V, art by Robert T. McCall

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TheSpaceshipper, to scifi
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): Filming inside the Discovery One centrifuge

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spaceflight, to random

Why was the Search for Intelligence () 👽 unsuccessful so far ?

🦠 appeared pretty much as soon as it could, right when the formed and our stopped being a molten 🌋 hellscape. That might have been as early as 3.7 billion years ago. But life appeared basically yesterday—what we identify as anatomically modern humans arose about 120,000 years ago. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/05/were-essentially-alone-in-the-universe-and-thats-ok

Pictures : :ccby: :cc_sa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nature_timespiral_horizontal_layout_white_background.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space-ship-763493.svg

spaceflight,
spaceflight, to instagramreality
spaceflight,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iiXUeil5fQ
had a 27 t rotating "ferris wheel" ☸️ at a cost of $750,000 (equivalent to $6,300,000 💰💰💰 in 📆 2022).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%3A_A_Space_Odyssey#Rotating_sets

Just for one scene 🎥. Might be cheaper 〽️ to to a private 🤔

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