Sentences with phrase «escape pod»

Scientists have proposed ways to clear space junk by launching water at it and have taken measures such as astronauts sleeping in escape pods in reaction to the growing space debris problem.
There is only one escape pod left, and it isn't functioning.
With escape pods scattered everywhere, the crew much each depend on their specific set of skills to survive.
That's why it's far better suited as a family escape pod to take to the park, the beach, or to the weekend cabin than it is as an urban commuter.
One featured teams competing to capture escape pods full of supplies.
He's turned discarded escape pods into rustic, floating hotel rooms.
You are rescued from stasis in a crashed escape pod by a member of Blade, the military arm of the new Earthling colony on Mira — New Los Angeles.
At the same time, however, Iger made it clear in an interview with CNBC that there is the potential to use the new ESPN streaming service as a kind of escape pod if the cable model continues to erode.
Used to measure what percentage of your body is fat, it's a white capsule, like a spaceship escape pod for one.
As the ship is attacked by a swarm of drone soldiers, under the command of Krall, and decimate the ship, the crew launch via escape pods, and are separated from each other.
But now it's also an increasing concern for the astronauts on the International Space Station, who recently had to sleep in escape pods while a piece of potentially dangerous debris floated past.
Escape Pod Artist: Jonathan Monaghan This seamlessly looped computer animated film chronicles a golden deer through glossy environments of wealth, power, and authority through one continuous tracking shot.
The second Star Wars adventure set for Disney Infinity 3.0 begins with Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie and the droid flying escape pods to Tatooine for their first meeting with Obi - Wan Kenobi.
There are more than a few striking images in Rian Johnson's entry in the Star Wars franchise, but none marry the spectacle with an emotional core quite like Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo's last ditch effort to sacrifice herself and save the crippled resistance escape pods being torn apart by a massive First Order dreadnought.
Still, for the consumer who needs a car to be the family sedan, a client hauler and a weekend escape pod, the Maxima is, as it has always been, an excellent choice.
For example, in one level you might be franticly defending escape pods while you wait for them to launch, and the next you'll be manning an orbiting weapons platform, raining down destruction on the robotic insectors.
If Halo players were lucky enough to complete the campaign in Legendary difficulty, the scene would continue and show Master Chief's escape pod drifting towards a strange planet, giving the Halo trilogy a nice cliff hanger ending which opened doors for a new Halo story ark.
I'm calling it: seamless battles from the surface of a planet, jumping in a starfighter for in - air dogfights, going further into outer space battles, land on a destroyer or capital ship to continue the fight, get to the nearest starfighter or escape pod when the ship is compromised, the destroyer explodes in space as you head back down to the planet.
Sometimes its destroying a specific thing or enemy, as in boss levels, but its always about getting all the loot you can and getting as many crew mates to the designated escape pod to take you back to the safety of your ship.
After take off something goes wrong and your ship explodes, you crash land safely in your combo escape pod / scooter unit on a strange world...
Drop Zone is yet another control variant, but unlike Supremacy, you can capture the points (in this case escape pods) in any order.
Samus, after a difficult, yet quick journey, was able to escape in a Space Pirate Escape pod, just seconds before a blast destroys the Mothership and puts an end to the Space Pirates» tyranny.
You know, like properly explain its immensely detailed combat system, have a plot that it can relay in less than 30 minutes or just not open by pushing you out of a glorified escape pod and saying: «Well, go on then.»
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Dungeon of the Endless opens with two random heroes exiting the wreckage of their crashed escape pod and finding themselves deep within an alien dungeon.
But scientists now have found that when the sea gets too rough or becomes choked with sediment, some corals don't just sit around — they break away from the mother reef in a kind of escape pod to start a new reef.
Numerous soldiers eject from the crashing ship via escape pods, but only one seems to make landfall relatively unscathed: an old, embittered private named Jameson.
NASA came up with a concept called the X38 — an escape pod with a lifting - body design, shaped like a fat wing, that was supposed to land using a steerable parachute — but it became clear that the design was too expensive.
A test mouse has grown to gigantic proportions, and in a genuinely exciting scene, the scientist has to gather up her data and get to the escape pod before being devoured like a little piece of cheese.
As her body erupts upon re-entering our atmosphere, three vials of the crazy animal growth serum pop out of the escape pod and scatter across the planet.
The film opens ominously in space, where a genetic experiment has created a giant mutated rat that chews up the space station's crew, but not before an escape pod with three samples shoots back to Earth.
Solo is as much the Kessel - running starship's origin story as it is the title character's, and without wanting to give away too many surprises, it's great to see how the Falcon looks before she is turned into a hyperspacing bucket of junk: all shimmering and white and with an escape pod neatly filling the gap between those two front prongs.
What jumped out to me right away was how this setup looks like a reverse of the famous two - shot in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) of Dave Bowman (Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) as they conspire against the supercomputer - gone - mad, HAL 9000, inside the ostensible privacy of an escape pod.
The lone survivor leaves in an escape pod, but not before her Earth - bound employers force her to bring along three samples of the highly dangerous chemical compound they were testing.
As the Community set collapses into the ground, crystal spires and butthole flags crashing into the walls, he wraps an Inspector Spacetime robe around tiny, angelic Alison Brie, loads her into an escape pod, and aims it toward «film career.»
While camping alone in the woods, the young boy discovers the escape pod from a downed Air Force One containing the President, and the two must team up to combat a group of terrorists who are closing in.
funnily enough, the escape pod from the shuttle is missing...
The Sulaco is ripping apart and these Marines need to survive the trek to an escape pod to get away.
Having returned from the alternate dimension, Ava and Schmidt use an escape pod to return to Earth, only for Michael to berate Joe for not telling them about the destruction that awaits them, and warning them to remain in space.
After witnessing a spectacular crash, he discovers the escape pod from Air Force One, containing the President of the United States (Samuel L. Jackson).
Her introductory scene involves her getting all gushy over meeting Finn for the first time (although she promptly tases him when she realizes he's trying to hijack an escape pod), and later, the script uses her mainly as a plot convenience.
Instead of flying through an asteroid field in an escape pod, we're flying a First Order Tie Fighter through a Star Destroyer.
While making their way to their escape pod, Watney is struck by debris and presumed dead by his crewmates.
When the boy discovers the President (Jackson) cowering in an escape pod with the bad guys closing in, he quickly becomes an unlikely protector for the most powerful man in the world.
With escape pods.
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Sure, some spaceships can float on water — certainly the escape pods and emergency capsules can — but that's beside the point.
It starts out with your character leaving a research station on an escape pod (seemingly against their will), and later landing on a space station with no life to be found anywhere (reminding me of one of my personal faves, Super Metroid).
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