Category: Sci-Fi

Starships

and Starships of the mind too.
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…Love spaceships and still spend a lot of time thinking of ships, 3d modeling them, very partial about the Mars rovers. Still think Rama would be a great movie and one of the adventures that kept me on the edge of my seat every time I re-read the books. The creative space starships occupy is a strange one, lots of creative people have taken on spaceships themes, like Asimov, George, Kubrick, Clarke, on the other hand also out there real scientists who build nasa rovers.
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It seems it is It is bizarre I spent most of my life being terrified of flying. Actually there was a space of about three years when i could not get on a plane and a wing tip would throw me into a tailspin but we don’t wanna talk about this do we.

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The Heart of Gold is still my favorite.
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There was a strange tree in a hard science fiction novel where the tree had to be stoked with fires to fly through a universe very dense and with strange gravity. The novel was called Raft. Once i made a pen and ink drawing about it i think.
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THE FLYING TREE

 

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Rama dominating my imagination for the longest time. Also the Raman Node from the later Rama books, the later books were filled with incredible ships of various sizes and purpose taking deep voyages and carrying many species to unknown destinations. It blows my mind until this day when i need to be shopping.
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The moment where Rama meets the Node and many exciting things happen and we meet Raman intelligence. It too blows my mind.

“..The Rama spacecraft rendezvous with another Node, an enormous tetrahedron near the star Tau Ceti, designed to research any intelligent life capable of spaceflight. ..”
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With Star Destroyers coming close second for intimidation factor and making us prickly with anticipation when entering the big screen and gliding over our heads.

 

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Star Destroyers  size comparison
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Super Star Destroyer Executor complete scene. It is as badass as they come.

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Starships Size comparison
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Rama from Rendezvous with Rama would have been a good addition ( 50-kilometre /31 mile cylindrical alien starship ). Also one of my favorite ships ever. Wish Ridley would have undertaken Rendezvous with Rama and the Rama franchise.

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Chart of all the spaceships to scale
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Chart of all the spaceships to scale

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Star Wars Spaceship Sounds

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A Bit More from Jodorowsky’s Dune Starships
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Jodorowsky's Dune Ship Concept art

 

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Jodorowsky's Dune Ship Concept art

 

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Jodorowsky's Dune Spacecraft Concept Art

 

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Okay – more Star Wars:

 
Behind the Scenes of Star Wars: The Original Trilogy ILM Special Effects Makers.
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and the goodies with the man.
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Joseph Campbell on Darth Vader

 

“Star Wars deals with the essential problem: Is the machine going to control humanity, or is the machine going to serve humanity? Darth Vader is a man taken over by a machine, he becomes a machine, and the state itself is a machine. There is no humanity in the state. What runs the world is economics and politics, and they have nothing to do with the spiritual life.
“So we are left with this void. It’s the job of the artists to create the new myths. Myths come from the artists.”

Joseph Campbell, interviewed by Chris Goodrich, Publisher’s Weekly (1985)

 

Speaking about the machines – a conversation about the machines in the Matrix Reloaded. It is not really about moving parts… it is about power and control. We truly are godlike thanks to the power machines give us – we stomp the land for resources and run around in space. It is truly sad also that we often unleash machines on each other, as if we have run out of beasts to conquer.. but this is another, and long, conversation.

 

Kenny Baker, the actor behind my favorite robot

Kenny Baker, the actor behind R2-D2

Kenny Baker, actor behind R2-D2 via the guardian.

View post on imgur.com

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Press to Beep – via reddit.
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My next favorite robot is of course a sarcastic one:

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Speaking of it – interstellar is not necessarily among my favorites – but loved Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow, have seen them both many times each. I spin Edge of Tomorrow often ( rip solarmovie ).

 

What is your humor setting, TARS?
100 percent.

Let’s bring that down to 75.

 

To be honest i like my robots and humans at 100 percent.