Sentences with phrase «about space wars»

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Perhaps the only person who can say «been there, done that» about both an airline and a railroad, Branson is now working his way through a to - do list that includes ferrying people into space (Virgin Galactic), traveling to the deepest parts of the world's five oceans (Virgin Oceanic), and ridding the atmosphere of 25 gigatons of carbon (the Carbon War Room).

Although space will not permit exploration of the point here, it is important to note that Christian thought about just war predated the rise of the modern state system in the 17th century, and rests on fundamental moral principles not essentially tied to that system.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

As much as it's steeped in space fights, planets and bases the size of moons, Star Wars isn't really about space.

(The Daily News» Juan Gonzalez has an article in today's paper about these bitter space wars.)

We are excited about the prospect of creating a flexible - use space that can serve as a facilitated coordinating center to help resistance groups and support events, much like a tech incubator or war room.

I mean, it's too bad about the crew member, but it is rare indeed for a movie to show silence in space (see the entry for Star Wars — though television's Firefly gets it right).

In an era of wrenching human struggle under the heels of military might and the horrors of World War I, the experimental proof of the correctness of Einstein's notion of gravity and curved space showed the world that there were fundamental truths to be learned about nature and that the human mind and spirit could rise above all.

In a 2012 paper Jacques Blamont, a founding director of the French space agency CNES, argued that people are losing interest in the human exploration of space «because spacefaring nations, and especially the USA, have clung on to outmoded cold war ways of thinking about it.

In this wide - ranging, humorous talk, Seth Shostak takes a look at Star Wars and other science fiction films from the point of view of a skeptical scientist, tells stories about the movies he has been asked to advise, and muses about aliens from space and how we might make contact with them.

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.

Except for Grand Moff Tarkin, who was basically a bunch of Peter Cushing - shaped pixels, none of the major players were people we knew; most of them were characters we'd never heard of, the grunts and redshirts of the galactic war, and that meant anything could happen to them, and that the film didn't have to set aside a certain amount of space for enacting things we'd heard about but never seen dramatized.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

Now that we're all at «war,» the next we hear about this space station will probably be years hence, when — just as unfinished as it is now — it follows Skylab and Mir back down on top of us.

Clarke, one of the stars of the upcoming spinoff flick «Solo: A Star Wars Story,» stopped by «The Tonight Show» on Monday to promote the film, which reveals how the young Han (Alden Ehrenreich) meets Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), among other details about the space swashbuckler.

It's interesting to see a film about a space alien that doesn't resemble anything we've ever seen before, as most others have some sort of humanoid appearance, (or reptilian, etc.) Indeed, it's a much more plausible depiction of an alien threat than most other sci - fi efforts have featured, almost the opposite in terms of story as The War of the Worlds which featured aliens defeated from exposures to germs and viruses of our own.

Double Take, Johan Grimonprez's quasi-experimental meditation on (among other things) the Cold War tension of the late fifties, the space race and the culture of commercial television, turns Hitchcock into the main character of an abstract thriller about the director meeting his own double.

But what makes the film more than a mere vengeance flick is that it is actually a fairy tale disguised as a humble western in the same way that the Star Wars franchise is actually a space opera about a son redeeming his father who fell from grace.

Pixels (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: PG - 13, suggestive comments, language The lowdown: A science fiction comedy about aliens who misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war and retaliate by attacking our planet with games such as Pac - Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Space Invaders and Galaga.

by Walter Chaw A deep cut for Star Wars fanatics, Gareth Edwards's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story also happens to be the single most topical fiction of 2016, talking as it does — in bold, melodramatic strokes befitting a space opera — about the importance of rebellion in the face of fascism.

Writing a Star Wars movie is a pretty daunting task, especially when it's outside of the main series and could go in about as many directions a ship flying through space.

Writing a Star Wars movie is a pretty daunting task, especially when it's outside of the main series and could go in about as many directions a ship hurtling through space.

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Along with a chance to finally see Josh Brolin's Thanos get off his giant space toilet and go about grabbing the Infinity Stones he needs to fill the Infinity Gauntlet and win much more power than is really safe for anyone in the universe, there has been much speculation on who might be departing before the credits roll on Avengers Infinity War and the unnamed movie that will follow it next year.

Identified as the remnants of the six singularities that existed in the universe prior to the Big Bang - Space, Time, Reality, Mind, Power and Soul — we have been slowly learning about all of them in Marvel Studios» movies for years now, and it won't be long before they are put center stage in the upcoming two - part epic The Avengers: Infinity War

There is the racist American dwarf expounding upon the coming war between black and white, the fat - assed family unconscious of the space they occupy with their broad girth, and the snide jerk who complains about smoke even though he's seated in the smoking section of the restaurant.

Although Star Wars has always been head and shoulders above anything else, visually speaking, I have a slight technical complaint: why is it that Lucas makes such a big deal about digital filming having such superiour colour and brightness when most of what he shoots is black space and brown desert planets (TWO this time!)?

We caught up with Kaplan, who is also responsible for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Trek (2009), Fight Club (1999) and Blade Runner (1982), for a little chat about what's new for episode 8 of the ever evolving space saga.

Identified as the remnants of the six singularities that existed in the universe prior to the Big Bang - Space, Time, Reality, Mind, Power and Soul — we have been slowly learning about all of them in Marvel Studios» movies for years now, and it won't be long before they are put center stage in the upcoming The Avengers: Infinity War - which will feature the Mad Titan known as Thanos working to collect all of the stones into the Infinity Gauntlet and possess the powers of a god.

Star Wars: Tiny Death Star for Android — From Disney Mobile, in partnership with LucasArts and Nimblebit, the makers of Tiny Tower, comes an all - new mobile game about everyone's favorite space station, STAR WARS: TINY DEATH SWars: Tiny Death Star for Android — From Disney Mobile, in partnership with LucasArts and Nimblebit, the makers of Tiny Tower, comes an all - new mobile game about everyone's favorite space station, STAR WARS: TINY DEATH SWARS: TINY DEATH STAR!

In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson wrote, «The Circus Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war... The place is about four stories high, in the style of a circus tent, and all manner of strange Polish Carnival madness is going on up in this space.»

Anyways very cool rant that I actually took the time to read... format wars, fanboyism, crazy reviews, confused game companies that can't decide on one SKU, price wars that mislead the consumers, 30 fps / 60fps / framerate arguments, 720p / 1080p / 640p HD arguments, disc space, exclusives, timed exclusives, delays, confirms, rumors... i'm just tired of hearing about it all.

And the studio does know a thing or two about waging war in space.

What started out as a somewhat simple story involving genetic memory and a secret war between a cadre of assassins and the Knights Templar has spiraled out into a nearly convoluted tale about space Romans who held dominion over Man until they rebelled and Adam and Eve became the first Assassins.

Star Wars: Battlefront is just about a month away from launching, and fan expectations are sky space (does it still hurt?)

Finally, we are very excited about the first 2 quarters of 2013 as they look very strong, with announced titles, including Konami's Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Sony's God of War: Ascension, Microsoft's Gears of War: Judgment, EA's Dead Space 3 and Crysis 3, Square Enix» Tomb Raider, Take - Two's BioShock Infinite, Ubisoft's Splinter Cell Blacklist and Take - Two's Grand Theft Auto V.

When early previews of Space Marine surfaced last year, one line in particular caught my eye: a response from a Relic rep to a question from Rock Paper Shotgun about whether or not the game - looking so much like Gears of War as the writer felt - would contain a cover system.

multiplayer wasnt the only lie either but it was the biggest because he went into detail about it saying ya you can troll other players how you have to look hard for the others because theres no username over their head, about drop in lobbies ect and all that bs unbelieveable how slimy that guy is hope karma gives him cancer other lies: planets have different gravity, different class ships (all ships are the same...), some planets are completly sand or water, space wars between fractions scripted events, the center of galaxy being special YOU CANT EVEN GO TO THE CENTER lol... garbage game cash grab from this scumball and his 15 other idiots they prob all got millions from this scam i just want the lawsuits to roll in and ruin them all their names are tarnished from game industry now any way.

No other ethnological demographic was included upon the massive arks of humanity making their fledgling voyage to the stars Read more about Earth's Diverse Populace Completely Unsurprised As White People Leave To Fight Class War In Outer Space -LSB-...]

Read more about Earth's Diverse Populace Completely Unsurprised As White People Leave To Fight Class War In Outer Space

And while I'm talking about aerial fights, in a series called «Star Wars,» it is laughable that there are no fights in space.

About a week ago, PSM was reporting that they had seen the game and it felt like a combination of God of War and Dead Space, all wrapped into one.

Things takes place in 2047, about sixteen years after the event of the Firestorm expansion pack for Tiberian Sun, and the story focuses on the Third Tiberium War which Nod provokes by destroying the space station Philadelphia.

One of the most important figures in the competitive shooter space over the last decade, Cliff Bleszinksi (Of Unreal Tournament and Gears of War fame), has recently chimed in, talking about the environment surrounding modern shooters and his new studio Boss Key Productions first game Lawbreakers.

This time, The Gamesmen talk about the release of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Guild Wars 2 becoming free - to - play, Star Citizen's social module, the release of YouTube Gaming, a Kerbal Space Program port, an upcoming Castlevania animated series, the upcoming Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC, the Pokemon World Championship, Razer's rival to the Xbox One Elite controller, Sony wanting an artist for the new Project Morpheus team, and more arrests from Lizard Squad.

This time, The Gamesmen talk about the release of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Guild Wars 2 becoming free - to - play, Star Citizen's social module, the release of YouTube Gaming, a Kerbal Space Program port, an upcoming Castlevania animated series, the upcoming Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC, the Pokemon World Championship, Razer's rival to the Xbox One Elite controller, Sony wanting an artist for -LSB-...]

With all this wonderful Star Wars themed stuff, it's no wonder why so many people enjoy celebrating a day about one of their beloved space stories!

This time Jim and I sit down with Christopher Park, founder and lead developer at Arcen Games, to talk about their upcoming space game, The Last Federation, along with the continued success of AI War and so much more.

Now think about the current state of this genre, where the Battlefield franchise has released a cops and robbers themed game and a game set in the first World War, and where the Call of Duty franchise has literally gone to outer space.

We probably weren't the only ones looking forward to the Star Wars game that Dead Space developer Visceral had in the works up until about a month ago.