Out of the Silent Planet

Irving Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it…

Upon observing some of the heart-wrenching photos, I had many emotions going through me. My immediate response was sadness. I felt unhappy since I love our planet and all the inhabitants in it.…

sunlight that reaches Gnaritus and the other planets in this solar system. Hydrogen gas on the sun’s surface is mostly plasma. For example, heating solids results in liquids, then gasses, and later plasma, which is the fourth state of matter. In other words, ionized gas comprises plasma. This plasma can escape the sun’s gravity becoming the solar wind that is continuously blowing through the solar system to Gnaritus and all the way out to the planet Spes. In fact, ninety-nine percent of the…

How many things can you see in the night sky? A lot! On a clear night you might see the moon, some planets, and thousands of sparkling stars. You can see even more with a telescope. You might see stars where before you only saw dark space. You might see that many stars look larger than others. You might see that some stars that look white are really red or blue. With bigger and bigger telescopes you can see more and more objects in the sky and you can see those objects in more and more detail.…

at the Bellagio. She is out of surgery and will recover. I was able to debrief her, a limited amount. The attack was vicious, the assailants clearly had no motive other than killing everyone in the room. Fortunately, Jill was armed and able to defend herself. Four assailants attacked them. She killed two outright, in the room. The other two bolted and ran after the initial exchange…

She is one of the first people who introduced this controversial topic about our planet. Publish in 1962, “Silent Spring”has became one of the best seller books on the New York Times list. In the book, Carson 's main argument is that pesticides (she like to calls them “biocides”) have detrimental effects on the environment. She said that Dichloro…

Aristotle, the center of the universe was the Earth, around which the moon, the sun, and the other planets revolved . The Bible, also in a few passages referred to the motion of the sun, supported the authority of Aristotle and human observation seemed to confirm the motion of the sun. Aristotle stated that all heaveny bodies move in circles. But this belief made it hard to explain observed movements of planets like Mars and…

billion tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year. The temperature shifts are causing destructive weather changes throughout the world. It is estimated that our planet will be subject to extreme drought by the end of the century.…

most primitive ancestors had highly structured social groups. Bass goes on to use this intrinsic human characteristic to promote love between his Narrator and Martha. There is a danger to love, a risk that all men and women must take; like rushing out to…

The Unbearable Mistake That one mistake you make without thinking fully, can put you in a situation you can't get out of. Tom Godwin’s short story “The Cold Equations” is about a young girl Marilyn who makes a mistake and get onto a EDS to see her brother. Later on she finds out it was wrong and a mistake to get aboard then has no choice but to take her life to save multiple other people. Marilyn’s character reveals that it is good to learn from mistakes, but pride is important part of learning…