A Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone, urges the president to approve an extraterrestrial decontamination facility to sterilize returning astronauts, satellites, and spacecraft that might carry an "unknown biologic agent."
#Sciencefiction#tvseries#forallmankind brings forward a usually neglected and abandoned as non existent (even in the future) issue about #workersrights in #spaceexploration.
In general the creators have shown repeatedly that they don't stick to clichés and usual #scifi tropes to deliver a brilliant series.
Even from the opening scene of s1e1 they show their intentions by re-enacting the 1st manned moon landing in a provocative way.
“Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson has me thinking about the evolution of consciousness, and the ways biology facilitates it. It makes me even more certain that consciousness is not emergent, but fundamental to the universe.
I realize that the main thesis I have in my books is that "the flesh is not a prison, it is training wheels”. Biology can obviously be overridden by a sufficiently developed mind (the Marshmallow test is a concrete example).
Passengers (2016): The Avalon, art by production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas
“I thought, what would happen if we took the donut and connected it to a series of elongated, pod-like shapes, so that it almost looked like one of those electricity-generating wind turbines?" (Wired) #scifi#movie#spaceship#conceptart#passengers#avalon
Murderbot!!! Book 7 of the Murderbot Diaries has arrived. I'm so excited. This is one of my all-time favorite scifi series. Stop talking to me so I can consume my media 😆😆 #Murderbot#SciFi#SFF#ScienceFiction#Bookstodon