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Daughters of forgotten light
\"Lena \"Horror\" Horowitz leads the notorious Daughters of Forgotten Light, one of three vicious gangs fighting for survival on the prison planet Oubliette. Their fragile truce is shaken when a new shipment arrives from Earth, carrying a fresh batch of prisoners and supplies to squabble over. But the delivery also includes two new surprises--a drone...and a baby. Earth Senator Linda Dolfuse wants evidence of the bloodthirsty gangs to justify the government finally eradicating the criminal wasters dumped on Oubliette. There's only one problem: the baby smuggled in with the drone may be hers.\"--Back cover.
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Psycho-Religious Experiences in Deep Space History: Astronaut’s Latent Countermeasures for Human Risk Management
Current scientific developments have reached the stage where human aspirations of space exploration are not science fiction but a reality involving travelling to the Earth’s orbit, the Moon and Mars. In the second half of the twentieth century, international space agencies (like NASA, European Space Agency, and Russia) witnessed the professional experiments of official and commercial space projects, gradually unveiling the universe’s secrets. Astronautical research has predominantly been developed within the context of advanced materialism. The astronauts’ physical health has been protected by the technology of space medicine, while the socio-cultural aspect of psychological well-being was less regarded. As space-travel time is getting longer and more solitary, the evaluation of the mental environment of the astronauts during space travel or in technical crisis is necessary. Also, can the private sphere of astronauts help the public sphere of space safety or security? When and how can religious behaviour (or psycho-religious potentiality) be effective in the space community of long-term missions? This paper explores the sacred experiences of past astronauts in the non-scientific aspects of fearlessness, courage, stability, and confidence. It argues a new hypothesis that while the space team can theoretically depend on the visual and systematic data of the latest information technology (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI), the success of deep space missions (including Mars exploration), in terms of human risk management, is not always irrelevant to the strength of individual spirituality as an internal countermeasure of self-positivity in absolute hope. Furthermore, this aspect can be proved in the case studies of the American Christians’ willpower, Papal support, spontaneous Jewish astronauts, the institutional cooperation of the Russian Orthodox Church and its government, and the commitments of Asian and Islamic astronauts.
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The Mathematics of Star Trek - An Honors Colloquium
After the success of a course on cryptography for a general audience, based on Simon Singh's The Code Book [
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], I decided to try again and create a mathematics course for a general audience based on The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss [
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]. This article looks at the challenges of designing a physics- based mathematics course \"from scratch,\" outlines the topics chosen, and gives examples of homework and discussion questions used.
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The Art of Learning by Example
From sidewalk inventories to travel surveys, planners devote considerable time and energy to understanding existing conditions. It doesn't have to be that way. With the help of artificial intelligence, planners can now evaluate the potential impact of a safety project in one week rather than having to wait five years, or pull off a sidewalk inventory across an entire county in a matter of weeks rather than months. While there's no replacement for being physically in the communities we serve, 1 think we can all agree that standing in parking lots counting cars isn't the best use of our time. So put away the clipboard and see how recent advances in AI-and particularly its computer-vision subfield-promise to refocus planners efforts on the work only we can do and revolutionize how we understand our communities. The term \"artificial intelligence,\" or AI, often conjures images of autonomous vehicles meandering through streets, smartphone assistants answering questions, or even androids exploring final frontiers. While some might think that touches on the realm of science fiction, in some ways, the reality of AI today isn't that far off. AI is the study of algorithms that can sense, reason, adapt, or otherwise simulate human intelligence. It has had stops and starts since the late 1950s, but everything changed in the early 2010s. The field experienced a renaissance fueled by improved hardware, the advent of big data, and the widespread use of deep learning (a generalized set of algorithms loosely inspired by neurons in the brain). Combined, these advances enabled computers to learn by example, which has quietly allowed them to do all sorts of new tasks, from translating speech and increasing the pace of industrial automation to identifying cat pictures on the internet.
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The Startle Effect: Implications for Spectator Cognition and Media Theory
Baird examines how and what kinds of things startle people and the methods motion pictures use to startle viewers. The core elements of a film startle effect are: a character presence, an implied offscreen threat, and a disturbing intrusion into the character's immediate space.
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THE GOLDEN GHETTO AND THE GLITTERING PARENTHESES
IF THE LACK OF PRESTIGE accorded to SF texts and authors, compared to their more respected literary counterparts, is a significant factor in understanding the marginalizing function of genre distinctions, this subordination is even more salient when it comes to print adaptations of works intended for the screen: novelizations. Whereas literary and film critics have, in general, a mutual respect for the power and distinctiveness of both media, novelizations have never played a central role in major intellectual debates regarding either medium. Studies of adaptation tend to focus on print works that are translated into screenplays and subsequently produced as
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“THE BEST IS YET TO COME”; OR, SAVING THE FUTURE
A strongly skeptical analysis of theStar Trekfranchise’s liberal astrofuturism (the idea that an American advance into a wide-open space frontier might solve social and political problems) uncovers the ways in which it fails to fully realize the political hopes it proclaims.¹ It can be argued that Trek’s principal failure is in visualizing a future that is more than merely an extension of Euro-American hegemony into the final frontier. Daniel Bernardi argues that the show’s “liberal humanist project is exceedingly inconsistent and at times disturbingly contradictory, often participating in and facilitating racist practice” (“Star Trek” 211). The program cannot
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The Golden Ghetto and the Glittering Parentheses
This chapter appraises Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a critical intervention into science fiction’s history. Employs theories of adaptation in literature, film, and television to contextualize a novelization of Deep Space Nine by black author Steven Barnes. Highlights the primary texts’ treatment of black masculinity and historical consciousness.
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Watch the trailer for Netflix’s new family space drama about a mission to Mars – TechCrunch
As deep space missions and Mars colonies continue to shift from science fiction to potential near-future reality, it’s not surprising to see Hollywood think about different types of stories to tell about space exploration. “Away,” a new series from Netflix premiering on September 4, looks like that kind of story. The show stars Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, and is created by the people behind “Parenthood” and “Friday” Night Lights. It’s a show about an astronaut mission to Mars — but it’s...
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