CLONING FREEDOM launch party part 3/3: More discussion

Imaginearing Writing the Fantastic

I gave this talk on the principles of building plausible constructs for fantasy and science fiction at the Forest City Comicon in London Ontario.

Stephen B. Pearl.
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Movie Review Passengers

            I saw Passengers and while I have to say, it wasn’t the best movie ever I was pleasantly surprised. The science in it, while a little Hollywood, wasn’t glaringly stupid. The character interactions were those of real people. No perfect individuals and no complete monsters just people in an impossible situation trying to cope. To those who will fixate on the morally reprehensible action of some of the characters I suggest you put yourself in the situation they were in. None of us know how we will react to extreme situations and all of us fall from grace occasionally and have to seek redemption. The details in the set design really impressed me. Little things like the list of available medical procedures on the auto doc. The ship design I question but it wasn’t so bad as to invalidate the movie.

            In my opinion, they should have trimmed the man alone sequence a little. That said the fact that the leads worked the problems they faced and showed some intelligence and deductive reasoning was wonderful. If you don’t know crack a book, you may just survive.

            I’ll give it four out of five stars. Worth the half priced ticket I got in with.

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This Ain’t Utopia Planitia: Believable Starship Designs

This Ain’t Utopia Planitia: Believable Starship Designs A panel recorded at Ad Astra 2016 held at the Sheraton Parkway North, 600 HWY-7 E Richmond Hill, Ontario Available on Youtube: Part 1: https://youtu.be/7a2D6CvR7JA Part 2: https://youtu.be/WomF0bnOsTA

Media properties like Star Trek or Star Wars tell us that space travel is easy, and that starships act like boats or planes. This is a terrible, terrible lie. There’s a lot more to spaceflight than common media depictions show, and there’s a lot of mileage you can get by knowing some of the principles behind realistic spacecraft design.

Featuring: Andrew Barton, Cameron Currie, Eric Choi, Stephen B. Pearl

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