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Tag: space
HAL 9000: This Lens is Cinema’s Most Memorable AI Villain
Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey gave the world one of cinema's most chilling villains - the malevolent AI known as HAL 9000. With his ominous glowing red "eye", HAL has become pop culture iconography for evil artificial intelligence.
The young girl who named Pluto
In 1930's Oxford, breakfast conversations between grandparents and their grandchildren weren't usually front-page news. But for Venetia Burney, a bright-eyed student, one such conversation would etch her name in the annals of history.
Edgar Allan Poe and the Big Bang
Beyond conjuring tales of mystery and imagination, Edgar Allan Poe harbored intense fascination with the workings of the universe.
The Future Star Apocalypse
Amidst the vast emptiness of space, the skies rarely trouble most earthlings beyond furnishing poetic inspiration. Yet concealed in the abyss, deadly remnants from our solar system's birth slowly circle in the darkness.
Jupiter Doesn’t Orbit the Sun
Astrophysicists have long known that the universe is full of surprises, but even our own Solar System can make our head spin. It turns out that the center of the Solar System is not the Sun and so Jupiter doesn't orbit the Sun. In fact, none of the planets revolve around the Sun.
Light doesn’t experience time…
We've all basked in the gentle warmth of sunlight, without giving much thought to the fact that this light left the Sun over eight minutes ago, traversing a whopping 93 million miles to reach us.
