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Why We Should Build Cloud Cities on Venus"At 50 kilometers up, Venus is remarkably Earth-like, excluding the need for any serious terraforming projects."
Geoffrey Landis, 59, of Columbus, Ohio, is a scientist and prolific science fiction writer. Last year, he was the recipient of the Robert A. Heinlein Award, given in honor of the sci-fi author; in 1992, he was awarded a Hugo, the sci-fi equivalent of the Pulitzer, and in 2011, he received a Hugo nomination for a short story entitled "The Sultan of the Clouds." A sci-fi tale with the sepia tints of Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, "Sultan" tells the story of a technician living on Mars named David Tinkerman as he accompanies his secret crush, the scientist Leah Hamakawa, on a mysterious voyage to the second planet from the Sun. Upon entering the atmosphere, Tinkerman describes what he sees:
"The surface of Venus is a place of crushing pressure and hellish temperature. Rise above it, though, and the pressure eases, the temperature cools. Fifty kilometers above the surface, at the base of the clouds, the temperature is tropical, and the pressure the same as Earth normal. Twenty kilometers above that, the air is thin and polar cold. The first paragraph is completely accurate. The second is not, of course, but Landis, who has worked as a scientist at NASA for 26 years, has spent the last decade and a half attempting to change that.
Venus's gravity is 90 percent of Earth's, and it's easier to get to than Mars, reachable in just five months as opposed to nine for Mars. At NASA, the idea of sending humans to Mars and Venus was first proposed in the run-up to Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk, during the Apollo program, when the space agency was giddy with exploration and rich in funds. Public support for the space agency was also on its way to heights it would never otherwise reach. It had begun sending probes to Venus in 1961, as part of the Mariner program. For the humans-to-Venus proposals, which would repurpose Apollo hardware, engineers determined that the three astronauts on board would only have time for between 45 minutes and two days for close observations. Even with nuclear engines (also theoretical) this wouldn't be enough time to make the 400-day trip worth it. Going the extra distance to Mars, meanwhile, was considered practically impossible. To explore these planets, robots would have to be enough.
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Time keeps on slipping into the future...
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I love how Star Trek used these concepts
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Can that future be here already? They all look/sound great to me.
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Wong Kim Yuen- On the Edge of Spaces: Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell , and Hong Kong's Cityscape
1. It is now widely acknowledged that Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982/ 1992) initiated a whole tradition of cult movies later grouped under the label "cyberpunk." Blade Runner's style draws its images from urban spaces all over the world, including such Asian cities as Tokyo and Hong Kong. Science fiction film critics are less aware, however, that when anime film director Mamoru Oshii was looking for a model of the city of the future in a computerized world, he turned for his primary inspiration to the cityscape of Hong Kong. Through his art designers, actual spots in the city of Hong Kong were transformed into the mise-en-scène of Ghost in the Shell, first released in the United States in March 1996.
https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/80/wong80art.htm
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https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/80/wong80art.htm
The Analysis emphasizes that Ghost in the Shell 's artists made meticulous sketches on location before actual shooting, sketches that emphasized chaotic crowdedness and a mad profusion of signs and icons. Hong Kong seems to be the only city in the world with such a degree of confusion -- with gigantic signs and neon lights protruding into the space on and above the street and fighting for limited and precious visual space. The artist remarks on this phenomenon:
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I had to put this somewhere because it's funny. Time keeps on slipping into the future...
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What? | |
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Isn't that one ancient?
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I really enjoyed ALTERED CARBON on Netflix. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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WHAAAAAA? never seen star wars? you must. I II II IV V VI are a must.
My favorite is II The Empire Strikes back. This was the SW movie that really broadcasted the vastness of that universe. I would visit Cloud City, Bespin
inspired from Hopi women hair styles
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She could hide weapons in her hair. What? | |
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I have this... What? | |
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that is pretty cool | |
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cocoon-like egg bed called ‘Lomme’ (abbreviation of « Light Over Matter Mind Evolution »). his naturally shaped shell combines state-of-the-art sleep enhancement technolog...
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A bed that is futuristic, stylish, comfortable and is passionately made to watch TV from it
Designed to depict a lunar eclipse (depending on your viewing angle), the aptly named Eclipse Bed combines comforts with entertainment by incorporating a high-end music system and mount for a flat screen TV along with some creative lighting functionality. Although it might look a little large, the set seems to be designed to be stylish, functional and all-inclusive. Starting with the twin bed size 120 cm x 200 cm, the set is also produced in 150 cm x 200 cm, 160 cm x 200 cm, 180 cm x 200 cm and 200 cm x 200 cm double bed sizes in a single base design are fully compatible with all mattress sizes and types available with company.
http://luxurylaunches.com...in-bed.php
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I just started watching. This show could be a part of the Blade Runner universe @ the same time, talking about the original.
1 1/2 of me would attempt to explore every nook of this city the other half would feel really lost lonely helpless
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There is so much mirroring in this movie and Blade Runner
They are doing a really good job with this show. No androids (yet?) the use of the saxophone, the 1st man accounts of things, the mix of future and 1940s/50s deco, the shade/shadows/smoke, the synth background sounds, the Asian/Latin expressions so many similarities
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https://www.apnews.com/c4dc6858a32b4b61bdbc6aebf5459a91
China lunar probe sheds light on the ‘dark’ side of the moon56 minutes ago
you *know* they're already negotiating with the aliens to colonize the place....
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This one reminds me of Total Recall
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Well of course it is not the same as Total Recall lol Totall Recall atmosphere and landscape was red-dish
It's from The Expanse NorthFront MidTownCeres Concept_B_v5
The Expanse S1x01 Life offworld on Ceres
A barkeep in Oakland, California, is among its most fluent speakers, along with the cast of "The Expanse." [Edited 1/4/19 20:20pm] [Edited 1/6/19 18:48pm] | |
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