Mars

The texts to be discussed are as follow: ‘District 9’, ‘The Sentinel’ and ‘Victory Unintentional’. These texts are of the theme Humans vs Aliens. The self/other binary concept is conformed and challenged in these texts. For instance, in ‘District 9’ the self/other binary is followed and it is suddenly challenged as Wikus undergoes a transition. Another example is in ‘The Sentinel’ where the self/other binary is inverted as humans are seen as the ‘other’ and the aliens as the ‘self’ due to…

In his journal The Sidereal Messenger, Galileo Galilei documents his astronomical findings. Galilei makes three discoveries based off his observations with his microscope; he finds the moon is physically similar to Earth, the existence of thousands of stars that are invisible to the naked eye, and Jupiter’s four moons. He proves that the moon’s surface is similar to Earth’s terrain through his sketches of his observations. Galilei’s illustrations display the moon’s shaded ridges and spots to…

Rebekah Anne Lay The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy By: Douglas Adams Comedy- Science fiction FICTION Plot Summary- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is about an alien named “ Ford Prefect” that is posing on Earth as an out of work actor to do research to make the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and when the world is about to be destroyed he tells his friend “Arthur Dent” that he is an alien and that he has been posing on Earth to make a book and only minutes from the planet…

There are many mysteries left by our predecessors, one of them is Stonehenge. There are many theories as to why Stonehenge was built but only some of them are actually believable. Stonehenge is one of England’s most puzzling structures, built on Salisbury plains in England; it has historians, researchers, Scientists and archaeologists very unsure of its actual purpose. Pearson (2012) think’s Stonehenge would have been built around 3100 BC and finished around 1100 BC in three stages; these dates…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is, in a nutshell, absurd. In fact, it is absurdism at its finest. In the first chapter, we are introduced to our main characters. Arthur Dent, whose house is to be torn down today to make room for a road and which he only finds out then the demolition team begin the process that day. Then, there is Ford Prefect, Arthur’s best friend, who turns out to be an alien. Where things get truly bizarre, in just the first chapter, is when we discover Ford is an alien…

Postmodern films want to draw the audiences’ attention to the fact they’re watching a movie that tells a story in a way that changes the meaning of storytelling. It wants to also make aware of how other movies are encoded with meaning that "controls" thinking about what is normal and proper. Wall-E, a major Pixar movie, is a great example of postmodernism. Wall-E is a critique of modernity, and the fate of man under consumerist technology. Set in the distant dystopian future, this film tells…

THE COLD PLUTO By : Ethan Garcia Pluto was discovered on February 18th, 1930. By an American astronomer named Clyde William Tombaugh. The name Pluto was given to the planet by an eleven year old girl, by The name of Venetia Burney. The scientist wanted to keep the tradition of naming the Planets after Roman Gods of the Underwold. Pluto was said to be the smallest Planet in the solar system and the ninth Planet from the sun, little after Pluto was recategorized…

Saturn By: Natalie James Saturn is one of the farthest planets from the sun, being the sixth. After being first spotted in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, Saturn was named after the Roman god of wealth and agriculture, Saturnus. The most common nickname for this gas giant is “The Ringed Planet”, for the large rings surrounding it that Saturn is famed for. Originally the Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei, thought that Saturn was triple bodied, but in 1658 Dutch astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, using a…

Uranus, often being referred as an ice giant was created 4.5 billion years ago, yet we have only had one mission to this marvelous planet that has many interesting details. The third largest planet, Uranus has many moons and cold temperatures with its average temperature being -216 degrees Celsius. The planet has a much longer orbit than the earth. Uranus also has a large figure and as stated earlier, it is the 3rd largest planet. There has only been one spacecraft to Uranus, which was Voyager 2…

On March 1st NASA had picked me to go on a mission.The mission as to take photos of Venus, Jupiter, and pluto. I left planet Earth to go to Venus on March 5. It took a while to get past the atmosphere and because of everything that was in my ship.I had fuel,oxygen,freezed dried food,plants,water, and medical supplies.After about 43 days, I had got to Venus. when I got to Venus I had taken pictures of it and studied the pictures to see if there was any form of life or anything not normal.When I…