How to land on a comet
... We can all learn something from the European Space Agency. They had a vision for where they wanted to go, they figured out what they needed to do to get the...
Tag: sci-fi
Star Wars: The Pouty Teenager Strikes Back
... I’ve been rewatching the Star Wars prequels with my boys. The pain! There’s some great lightsaber action, but the story arc still really hurts me. I mean, w...
Sharknado and winning the America’s Cup
... To be honest I hadn’t paid much attention to the America's Cup until last weekend, that awesome moment when the good guys’ spaceship reared up on a corner a...
Doctor Who visits the Mount
... We went across the road for coffee. He ordered a cup of tea and checked it over with his sonic screwdriver. I said, “It’s hard to justify giving column spac...
Prometheus – or “Why make an Alien movie if you’re not actually going to make an Alien movie?”
... Prometheus takes its time to establish all of the requisite ingredients for a trusty Alien showdown: Spaceship lands on planet; tunnels are investigated; hi...
STAR WARS: The Alternate History
... Let’s wipe the slate clean, pretend the prequels never happened and imagine an entirely different scenario. In doing so we will create an entirely new backs...