Floating in a Most Familiar Way: 21 Notes About Sci-Fi After ‘2001: A Space...
1. A person — you, me, even Anne Hathaway — can survive unprotected in space for about one minute without permanent injury. This is one reason we keep making movies about space. As in movies about...
View ArticleWhich Movie Astronauts Would You Want to Be Stranded With in Outer Space?
Matt Damon’s The Martian opens wide today. And a very lazy but still accurate (and spoiler-less) summation of the movie is that it’s about “an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars for a long time and...
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