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- i_monk4
Loving The Peripheral.
Really disappointed by 1899.
- utopian2
Surprisingly Good
- cannonball19784
https://frictionlit.org/umbrus/
For your reading pleasure.
- Nairn1
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I had a horrid thought a wee while back that basically revolved around the necessity of checking EVERY input with human-derived first principles, because as soon as computers/etc are involved, observations could conceivably be modified by external forces.It could quite possibly be that every observation we've ever had that didn't come straight through optics and into the human eye could have been modified, rendering much of what we think we know from the past few dozen years garbage/lies.
I then wondered about the extrapolations of this conceit, thinking that perhaps some monastic order of intital proof be set up to check as manually as possible with analogue tools,. which obviously gets a bit complex.
Clearly a bit derived from Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem, ithout the space priests.
Anyway suffice to say, perhaps Voyager's been telling porkies for as long as it's been out there.
- drgs0
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/en…
The engineering team with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: The interstellar explorer is operating normally, receiving and executing commands from Earth, along with gathering and returning science data. But readouts from the probe’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS) don’t reflect what’s actually happening onboard.
The AACS controls the 45-year-old spacecraft’s orientation. Among other tasks, it keeps Voyager 1’s high-gain antenna pointed precisely at Earth, enabling it to send data home. All signs suggest the AACS is still working, but the telemetry data it’s returning is invalid. For instance, the data may appear to be randomly generated, or does not reflect any possible state the AACS could be in.
- https://www.dictiona…hans_glib
- It might be time to get someone out there to have a look at it?Ianbolton
- Akagiyama1
After directing Dune part 2, Denis Villeneuve will direct Arthur C. Clark's Rendezvous with Rama.
The story from Clarke, the writer behind 2001: A Space Odyssey, follows a group of human space explorers who are tasked with intercepting an alien starship that is hurtling through the solar system. It is believed that the missions will lead to mankind’s first contact with alien intelligence.
- spiral erth!sted
- not every sci-fi classic needs to be adaptedspl33nidoru
- Rama isn't a particularly good story. Groundbreaking concept at the time, but not much of a story.i_monk
- I forget where was the sun? at the very end or floating in the middle?inteliboy
- Three light trenches spaced around the circumference.i_monk
- cannonball19784
Got another short story coming out soon about an art store owner who is breaking up with his girlfriend and is being visited by children that versions of himself from other dimensions have fathered.
- sarahfailin4
- Lol the last onefuturefood
- lolsted
- Yup, I LOLedContinuity
- These are brilliant.CyBrainX
- lololMrT
- Data's jokes improved when Rick Berman took over from Gene Roddenberry.CyBrainX
- sted1
- Foundation out yet?grafician
- docking scene was nice too :)sted
- it's an end of the univerese do your own research video on youtube narrated by a court painter.sted
- what is this?utopian
- Yes, more info?OBBTKN
- that is from the first episode of the Foundation seriessted
- *lighting one up before is highly recommendedsted
- Really enjoying it so far. The designs and sets are really well done.PhanLo
- yeah the particle effects generator works great, lots of glitter everywhere. recycled 3d models look good in 4k hdr, also spotted a few fake humans in the bg.sted
- imaginary forces work i think.neverscared
- Another boring as fuck tempate-ish title sequencebabydick
- What an exception look. I hope the series lives up to the enormous challenge. The novels are as good as Sci Fi has ever been. The 1st episode was great.CyBrainX
- Really liking this series so far. The world building is phenomenal, along with the effects and production design. Title sequence rocks.Akagiyama
- utopian-1
- cannonball197820
In October I will have a story featured in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Look for it at the airport, or wherever it is you buy anthologies.
*puts feather in hat*
- Congrats!Gnash
- Ooh, huge congratulations, cannonball! I've been wanting to read your stuff for a while now. Will try and buy (assuming I can buy online somewhere?)Nairn
- Nice one. How does it end?garbage
- ^ with people dying horribly lolcannonball1978
- haha. Hit us with a title so we know what to look for.garbage
- would love to read itinteliboy
- How will I know it is your story?drgs
- Awesome!
Pimp it : https://www.hmhbooks…palimpsest - Neat. Good luckStoicLevels
- Congrats!lemmy_k
- i_monk3
- Bruce must be low on cashcannonball1978
- Because Bruce Willis is known to be highly discerning in his roles. You probably can't name any of the 6 films he did in 2019.i_monk
- Looks par for the courseStoicLevels
- Ram will put this in suggest good movie thread soonGuyFawkes
- it was bad...necromation
- lolStoicLevels
- I rarely don't finish a movie I start. This was awful. I think they thought that spilling stuff in the camera lens counted as special effects.lemmy_k
- Ramanisky22
- Lunacy but Still more plausible than our other religions._niko
- Greatest monetary Sci-Fi story ever told?Ramanisky2
- PhanLo15
- very coolRamanisky2
- Hell yes. That's quite a collection.bezoar
- Nicemoldero
- ++renderedred
- You'd think they'd have a better wayfinding systemmisterhow
- Ramanisky27
Sci-Fi Short directed by Karl Poyzer
- colin_s1
i know they were both kinda panned but i went back and re-watched the two alien prequels ("prometheus" and "covenant") recently and they're goddamn good.
compared maybe to the lo-budget horror of the original they're, well just not that . but as just science fiction, it's a really great story with decent enough pacing. the only thing i think both fail at is the "final fight" scene where it all just gets a bit outlandish (especially in covenant).
anyway if you're looking for some sci-fi to pass the time with.
- Agreed. They have their flaws, but I think they were panned because most people got confused because they were unfamiliar with the canon.garbage
- Kind of like how it's never really stated that Blade Runner takes place in the Alien Universe. I'm expecting Raised by Wolves will be the same.garbage
- Scott needs to surround himself with people willing to say 'no'.i_monk
- I wish Scott had been allowed to make the Prometheus sequel he'd intended to make, rather than Covenant, which is what the studio forced him to make.MondoMorphic
- @i_monk I have some issues with Scott (he claimed that the neo-noir elements of BR were his idea and that he never bothered to read Philip K Dick, which is..garbage
- ..an outright lie). But he still is a fantastic director. Lucas would be more of the "needs less yes-men" type of director.garbage
- The universe is great visually, but the story was a big mess. Still enjoyed watching it though, so much good concept work in them both.PhanLo
- totally agree, re-watched them myself lately too and they were much better than I remembered, as opposed to the "Resurrection" one.rzu-rzu
- Also Alien 3 was quite nice, but only the director's cut, the one shown at the movies was terribly mutilatedrzu-rzu
- The problem could probably be named Lucas Syndrome or something, sure, but Scott clearly isn't getting any creative pushback to keep focus.i_monk