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File:Cape Atmosphere.jpg|link=Cape Atmosphere|'''''[[Cape Atmosphere]]''''' is a 1962 American space flight psychological thriller film about a NASA meteorologist whose family is stalked by an astronaut he grounded from a critical flight.
File:Cape Atmosphere.jpg|link=Cape Atmosphere|'''''[[Cape Atmosphere]]''''' is a 1962 American space flight psychological thriller film about a NASA meteorologist whose family is stalked by an astronaut he grounded from a critical flight.
File:Coriolis (2011 film).jpg|link=Coriolis (2011 film)|'''''[[Coriolis (2011 film)|Coriolis]]''''' is a 2011 American action-Shakespeare film loosely based on William Shakespeare's physics textbook ''Coriolis'' about an inertial or fictitious force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame.


File:The Pressure of the Sierra Madre.jpg|link=The Pressure of the Sierra Madre|'''''[[The Pressure of the Sierra Madre]]''''' is a 1948 American Western geology disaster film about two downtrodden volcanologists (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) who join forces with a grizzled old prospector (Walter Huston) to stop a catastrophic eruption.
File:The Pressure of the Sierra Madre.jpg|link=The Pressure of the Sierra Madre|'''''[[The Pressure of the Sierra Madre]]''''' is a 1948 American Western geology disaster film about two downtrodden volcanologists (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) who join forces with a grizzled old prospector (Walter Huston) to stop a catastrophic eruption.
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File:Time Enough in Layers.jpg|link=Time Enough in Layers|'''''[[Time Enough in Layers]]''''': A geologist (Meredith Burgess-Shale) unleashes a global nuclear holocaust in order to find a rare trilobite. (The Twilight Zone: Forbidden Episodes)
File:Time Enough in Layers.jpg|link=Time Enough in Layers|'''''[[Time Enough in Layers]]''''': A geologist (Meredith Burgess-Shale) unleashes a global nuclear holocaust in order to find a rare trilobite. (The Twilight Zone: Forbidden Episodes)
File:Alka-Seltzer for Venus.jpg|link=Alka-Seltzer for Venus|'''[[Alka-Seltzer for Venus]]''' is a proposal to terraform Venus using enormous Alka-Seltzer tablets.


File:Coriolis_Force_Modern_Dance_Company.jpg|link=Coriolis Force Modern Dance Company|The '''[[Coriolis Force Modern Dance Company]]''' is a modern dance collective based in New Minneapolis, Canada which choreographs and performs original works relating to coriolis force.
File:Coriolis_Force_Modern_Dance_Company.jpg|link=Coriolis Force Modern Dance Company|The '''[[Coriolis Force Modern Dance Company]]''' is a modern dance collective based in New Minneapolis, Canada which choreographs and performs original works relating to coriolis force.


File:Hell Bent for Lanthanum.jpg|link=Hell Bent for Lanthanum|'''''[[Hell Bent for Lanthanum]]''''' is a 1960 American Western film about an innocent chemist (Carl Gustaf Mosander) who is forced to go on the run to try and clear his name by isolating a new element (Lanthanum) from cerium nitrate.
File:Hell Bent for Lanthanum.jpg|link=Hell Bent for Lanthanum|'''''[[Hell Bent for Lanthanum]]''''' is a 1960 American Western film about an innocent chemist (Carl Gustaf Mosander) who is forced to go on the run to try and clear his name by isolating a new element (Lanthanum) from cerium nitrate.
File:Oort Patrol.jpg|link=The Oort Patrol|'''''[[The Oort Patrol]]''''' is an American action-astronomy television series about the exploits of four Allied astronauts — three Americans and one British — who are part of a long-range exoplanetary patrol group in the Oort Cloud campaign during World War II.


File:Bayeswatch.jpg|link=Bayeswatch|'''''[[Bayeswatch]]''''' is an American dramatic action mathematics television series about statisticians who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California and Hawaii.
File:Bayeswatch.jpg|link=Bayeswatch|'''''[[Bayeswatch]]''''' is an American dramatic action mathematics television series about statisticians who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California and Hawaii.
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File:Some Kind of Renewable.jpg|link=Some Kind of Renewable|"'''[[Some Kind of Renewable]]'''" is a song by Grand Funk Railroad and the U.S. Department of Energy.
File:Some Kind of Renewable.jpg|link=Some Kind of Renewable|"'''[[Some Kind of Renewable]]'''" is a song by Grand Funk Railroad and the U.S. Department of Energy.
File:Cubewano, Lord of the Asteroids.jpg|link=Cubewano, Lord of the Asteroids|'''''[[Cubewano, Lord of the Asteroids]]''''' a 2018 science fiction adventure drama film directed by Andy Serkis, based on stories collected in ''All the Classical Kuiper Belt Object Stories'' by astronomer Rudyard Kipling.
File:Mendelevium on a Jet Plane.jpg|link=Mendelevium on a Jet Plane|"'''[[Mendelevium on a Jet Plane]]'''" is a song by John Denver and a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
File:Project_Darkwhistle.jpg|link=Project Darkwhistle|'''[[Project Darkwhistle]]''' (also '''Project Darkwhistle''', '''DARK WHISTLE''', etc.) is an orbital wind tunnel.


File:Dart Board Galaxy (Messier 101).jpg|link=Dart Board Galaxy|The '''[[Dart Board Galaxy]]''' (Messier 101) is a face-on dartboard-type galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Pseudo.
File:Dart Board Galaxy (Messier 101).jpg|link=Dart Board Galaxy|The '''[[Dart Board Galaxy]]''' (Messier 101) is a face-on dartboard-type galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Pseudo.


File:Some Kind of Renewable.jpg|link=Some Kind of Renewable|"'''[[Some Kind of Renewable]]'''" is a song by Grand Funk Railroad and the U.S. Department of Energy.
File:Pomegranate cosmos diagram.jpg|link=Pomegranate cosmos|The '''[[Pomegranate cosmos]]''' model of the observable how the universe expanded from an initial state of extremely high density and high temperature, and offers a comprehensive explanation for a broad range of observed phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and large-scale Pomegranate-Like Structures (PLS).


File:Mendelevium on a Jet Plane.jpg|link=Mendelevium on a Jet Plane|"'''[[Mendelevium on a Jet Plane]]'''" is a song by John Denver and a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
File:Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer.jpg|link=Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)|2019: Steganographic analysis of '''''[[Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)]]''''' unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.


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