Day: November 23, 2024

‘Forbidden Planet’ is one of the most influential sci-fi films of all time, and it’s getting a remake

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In the realm of retro science fiction cinema, “Forbidden Planet” is unanimously considered a Hollywood classic and ranks at the top of almost any serious list of seminal outer space films. This 1956 retelling of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” proudly stands amid the company of other vintage works like “The Thing From Another World,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” “The War of the Worlds,” and “The Day the Earth Stood Still” as prime examples of that long-past Golden Age. Of that celebrated group of 1950s sci-fi movies, “Forbidden Planet” also…

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NASA awards $11.5 million to help design the aircraft of tomorrow

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NASA is looking to develop a new generation of low-emission commercial aircraft that will offer a more efficient and sustainable mode of travel. The space agency has commissioned five new design studies as part of its Advanced Aircraft Concepts for Environmental Sustainability (AACES) 2050 initiative. The organizations contributing to new airliner design concepts include Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences, the aerospace company Electra, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the aviation startup JetZero and Pratt & Whitney, according to a statement from NASA. “Through initiatives like AACES, NASA is positioned to harness…

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Watch Rocket Lab launch 5 French ‘Internet of Things’ satellites tonight

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Rocket Lab plans to launch five “Internet of Things” (IoT) satellites to orbit tonight (Nov. 23), and you can watch the action live. An Electron launcher carrying five spacecraft for the French company Kinéis is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab‘s New Zealand site tonight at 10:55 p.m. EST (0355 GMT and 4:55 p.m. local New Zealand time on Nov. 24). The launch window is instantaneous, so if the weather or any other issues force a delay, Rocket Lab will have to try again another day. Rocket Lab will…

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Sol 4370-4371: All About the Polygons

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