March 24
Better Than News
Arrival of Interest is a science fiction thriller reality television series about an Army linguist who discovers that an Alien vessel has been hijacked by a secret government agency and repurposed as a global spy network.
Martian Pink-Slip is a 1964 book on interplanetary labor history by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1.
The New Adventures of Delta Dawn is a 1982 American science fiction musical romance film about Delta Dawn, a woman from the twentieth century seeking love in the twenty-first.
Cleanskin Ascending is a space opera spy thriller film directed by Hadi Hajaig and the Wachowskis, starring Sean Bean, Channing Tatum, and Mila Kunis.
2001: A Citrus Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction foodie film directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Beyond Plausible
Defending Your Life: A New Hope is a 1977 American epic space allegory film about a man who finds himself on trial a long time ago in an afterlife far, far away.
NFTspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film about a group of NFT addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life.
Oppenheimer: The Dark Knight is an American historical drama superhero film loosely based on the life of Robert Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy and directed by Christopher Nolan.
In Other Words
Apollo Threesome is a 1995 revisionist American space docudrama film which dramatizes the notorious 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission.
Midnight Heart is an American neo-noir horror-comedy buddy film about the mysterious financier Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), who hires a criminal accountant known only as The Duke (Charles Grodin) to investigate the disappearance of a man known as Eddie Moscone. In a cross-country chase, Cyphre must deceive the authorities, exterminate the mob, and provoke The Duke into committing a series of horrific murders.
Are You Sure
• ... that in 1896, Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov transmitted a message between campus buildings in St Petersburg via radio waves?
• ... that biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography?
• ... that chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state; yet Priestly's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated from the scientific community of his time?
• ... that the Rider-Waite Space Elevator is a space elevator based on the Ryder-Waite tarot deck?
Topic of the Day
Star Wars
Cover art for Blu-Ray edition of Big Trouble on Little Tatooine starring Mr. Kurt Russell and Sir Alec Guinness.
The Caterer Strikes Back is a 1983 science fiction comedy film about a Jedi Chef (Luke Skywalker) who struggles to start a catering business in competition with Grand Chef Tarkin.
Moulin Rouge One is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic space opera film about a young English poet, Christian, who falls in love with cabaret actress and rebel Jyn Erso, the star of the Moulin Rouge.