…star type, to suggest that fast stars were cool and that these cool stars could have chemistry, allowing some sort of consciousness. The 2015 Centauri Dreams post Greg Matloff: Conscious…
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The Human Adventure is Just Beginning: Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture at 40
…Trek series called simply Starship. The brief description of this series contains “a Starship operated by an enormous computer which is a lifeform itself. Each human on board is a…
Creating Our Own Final Frontier: Part Two
…Altair and FP, there is still the possibility that the literary excerpts I present next have added their contributions to that star’s place in our collective consciousness which would eventually…
Spacefaring Mythologies
…the Archetypal Age. The EEA is when the archetypes of the human collective unconscious were laid down (and they are with us still), and these archetypes vary slightly from region…
The People’s Space Odyssey: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
…God, it’s full of stars!” This statement was written in the 2001 novelization by Clarke, but never said in the film version. As if to make up for its lack…
‘Dark Star’ and Staring into the Cosmic Abyss
…worlds across the galaxy in faster-than-light (FTL) starships. On television, Walt Disney presented an amazing future in full animated color with series such as Man in Space (1955-1959) and Magic…
“An Intellectual Carrot – The Mind Boggles!” Dissecting The Thing from Another World
…the Universal Studios film version of Mary Shelley’s monster were both technical and financial, the underlying message taken from it may have been consciously taken advantage of once the filmmakers…
The Decision Rests with You! The Day the Earth Stood Still, Seven Decades Later
…in which I include the red dwarf sun Proxima Centauri. Those three stars are located 4.3 light years from Earth, or about 25 trillion miles. On the celestial scale, 250…
Holographic Sails for Project Starshot? — Homage to Bob Forward
One of the reasons I described Greg Matloff as the ‘renaissance man of interstellar studies’ in my Centauri Dreams book is the continuing stream of ingenious ideas that he develops…
Creating Our Own Final Frontier: Forbidden Planet
…of our own Solar System. What can a 1950’s movie tell us about flight to the stars? Quite a lot, as Larry explains. By Larry Klaes The cinema has had…