Quote #40 Fantastic Voyage Movie Review
General Carter: [after the briefing before the mission] Any further questions? Anybody? Grant: Just one, General. General Carter: Yes, what’s that? Grant: Where do I get a cab back to town? IMDb.com
Quote Off Week #11 Getting Prepared for What is Coming
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke
Blog #39 Terraforming A Goldilocks Planet
Terraforming or terrafomation (“Earth-shaping”) is exciting. A “hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, or other body to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable for humans to live on.” 1 The Goldilocks idea refers to the habitable zone (HZ) or, more
Quote #39 Terraforming
“To be a great terraformer, you need the green thumb of a gardener, the eye of a painter, the soul of a poet… and it doesn’t hurt to be a raging egomaniac.” — Professor Gideon Seyetik, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (“Second Sight”)