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Beam me to the stars: Scientists propose wild new interstellar travel tech | Space
Space Exploration, Tech Beam me to the stars: Scientists propose wild new interstellar travel techBy Victoria Corless published 2 days ago “Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don’t have the ability to scale to useful…
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Looking for Interstellar Monuments – Scientific American
An ancient civilization from a distant star could have created immortal machines to roam the Milky Way and keep its legacy alive By Avi Loeb on September 11, 2021 By now I have reached an age at which my birthdays can be thought of as a countdown to the inescapable end. We live our life…
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Meet the astrophysicist whose 1980 blind date led to ‘Interstellar’ – LA Times
It started with a blind date. Theoretical astrophysicist Kip Thorne was a divorced, single dad raising a teenage daughter when he got a call in September 1980 from a close friend — who happened to be fellow scientist Carl Sagan. Would Thorne be interested in going out with a woman he knew? Though the shy…
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‘The Science of ‘Interstellar’ (US 2014): Book Excerpt
Famed physicist Kip Thorne brought real science to this year’s sci-fi movie epic “Interstellar.” In his new book “The Science of ‘Interstellar’” (W.W. Norton & Company, 2014), Thorne goes into detail about the physics that underlies the awesome phenomena explored in the movie, including black holes, time dilation, a disease that could decimate food crops…
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‘Interstellar’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Film Starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway – NYTimes.com
“Like the great space epics of the past, Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” distills terrestrial anxieties and aspirations into a potent pop parable, a mirror of the mood down here on Earth. Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” blended the technological awe of the Apollo era with the trippy hopes and terrors of the Age of Aquarius.…
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Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain on ‘Interstellar’ – NYTimes.com
“After he plumbed the direst depths of Gotham City in his “Dark Knight” trilogy and traversed multiple levels of consciousness in “Inception,” it seems the only place the filmmaker Christopher Nolan could go next was outer space. In his latest feature, “Interstellar,” an intrepid shuttle team slips the surly bonds of earth to search for…
