Sentences with phrase «scene from a science fiction»

This is not a scene from a science fiction movie, but rather the rendition of a test at the Institute for Flight System Dynamics of the Technische Universität München (TUM).

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A quote from a blogger I follow that's quite relevant to the discussion of the conditions that enable abuse (in reference to the atheist and science fiction convention scenes):

A SCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.orSCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.orScience, doi.org/h8h).

If the server decides that there are objects with geographic coordinates that fall within the camera's field of view, it superimposes these objects on the picture from the phone camera, in a fashion similar to the way the director of a science fiction movie might use special effects to add a spacecraft to a filmed scene.

In the typical science fiction film circa 1950, there's that scene in which scientists return from the just - landed flying saucer and tell the Army brass that no tool known to humankind can cut, burn, bend, or otherwise scar the hull.

Although the scene may smack of science fiction, it's actually Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, according to the latest results from the Cassini spacecraft.

His other books include «The Dream Team - The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood» (2006), «I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies» (2008) and «Jar Jar Binks Must Die... and other observations about science fiction movies» (2011).

Annihilation, adapted from Jeff VanderMeer's award - winning novel by the director of the science - fiction masterpiece Ex Machina, Alex Garland, includes some of the most chilling scenes recently committed to film.

A SOW focusing on some key scenes from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, including activities where students reimagine part of the film as a science fiction.

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 words...

Jake Arnott's decade - spanning, continent - hopping novel mixes fascinating real - life figures with fictional characters as it moves briskly from WWII spy intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming) and occultism (Aleister Crowley) to the West Coast pulp science - fiction set (Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein — even L. Ron Hubbard) and the»80s U.K. new wave music scene.

The artist composed the film of archival footage material — interspersing found footage, clips from science fiction films, diplomatic training films, reportage shots, airline promotional films, home video and reconstituted scenes.

Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science - fiction, from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut movie District 9, a multi-layered allegory on South Africa's recent internal and external tensions.

It's a study on pre-9 / 11 terrorism, composed of archival footage material — interspersing reportage shots, clips from science fiction films, found footage, home video and reconstituted scenes.

The three geodesic domes on the land truly make it look like a scene from a futuristic science fiction film.

Originally published in The Lawyers Weekly Has the typical citizen's day become a scene from the science - fiction film Minority Report?