Starship’s Windows: Sci-Fi Materials Meet the Real World?
The violinist performs in front of a mesmerized audience. Her gown flows as she bows her instrument, notes reaching every ear. But she isn’t in a concert hall. She’s floating in zero gravity aboard SpaceX’s Starship, Elon Musk’s vision of a reusable transportation...
Snowpiercer Science: Making a Snowball Earth
Snowpiercer, which began life as a French graphic novel series that started in 1982 and was adapted into a 2013 movie, and is now a series on TNT is many things: a climate-change warning, social commentary about class and inequality, an adventure-survival story, a...
Doctor Psycho, Darkseid and The Nature of Time
In Season 2, Episode 12 of DC Universe’s Harley Quinn animated series, Doctor Psycho was on to a bigger question when he basically tried to ask Darkseid what time he was referring to, his time in Gotham City or that of Apokolips, Darkseid’s homeworld. To set things...
Scienceish Lesson: Captain Marvel and the EM Spectrum
A Science-ish Lesson for today: The Electromagnetic Spectrum (and a little more) with Captain Marvel. This comes from Avengers #233 (1983) by Roger Stern and John Byrne, back in the day when you could spend a whole issue trying to figure out a way to get through a...
The (Useful) Things We Left Behind – Retroreflectors
The moon shines at night, but some parts of it shine better than others - the retroreflectors we left behind. Okay - quick physics refresher. When visible light hits things it will do, general one (or combos) from the following list: Light can be absorbed: The...
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