Sentences with phrase «space odyssey in»

RymdResa — RymdResa is a poetic roguelike space odyssey in a procedurally generated world.
After playing its first episode I felt the same reverence I felt after seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey in my freshman dorm room.
In the midst of this fight, a dimensional rift appears, pulling in HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey in the room.
Though there are echoes of M. Night Shyamalan's Signs and Robert Zemeckis» Contact, Interstellar most resembles Stanley Kubrick's revered 2001: A Space Odyssey in scope and beauty.
Thirty - six years ago Sir Arthur C. Clarke put the action of his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey in the vicinity of Saturn.
The movie more resembles Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in terms of theme than it does the original Alien.

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Or as Lo puts it, «Meet the financial equivalent of HAL in» 2001: A Space Odyssey»!»
That year, Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey featured a Pan Am spaceship, while the airline's Asian fleet ferried soldiers on active duty in Vietnam to Japan or to Hawaii for their R&R leave.
That is completely possible in 10 - 20 years, but not with outdated software and commercial interests not wanting to invest their funds into a HAL 9000 out of 2001 Space Odyssey.
Rather, we are on a spaceship hurtling into the unknown, just like the solitary passenger in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey after he had tried to regain control by dismantling his spaceship's computer.
Stanley Kubrick, creator of such memorable films as «Dr. Stangelove,»» 2001: A Space Odyssey,» and «Barry Lyndon,» understands how this happens: «I think an audience watching a film or a play is in a state very similar to dreaming, and that the dramatic experience becomes a kind of controlled dream....
We find a memorable image of cultural transmission in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Their bus windows were blacked out, so the bus looked like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, just this black blob on four wheels, and people were running, like the apes in the movie, just wanting to touch it.
At the time, he was reading about the making of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which spaceship computer HAL 9000 tries to murder its human crewmates.
«Handling all the data coming from Mars is becoming a challenge for us,» says Barry Geldzahler, the program executive for space operations in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.&rspace operations in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.&rSpace Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.»
However, researchers have stepped back to look at the bigger picture through data collected from the 2001: Mars Odyssey, named in reference to the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, «2001: A Space Odyssey,» and found a different chemical on Mars may be key.
Venkat has found bugs in the spacecraft - assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; on hardware and in drinking water from the International Space Station; in circuit boards destined for an upcoming mission to Europa; and on the metal surface of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since October 2001.
1968: HAL 9000 Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey offered a disturbing vision of artificial intelligence in HAL, a computer that could understand speech, read lips, play chess, pilot a spaceship, and kill off astronauts as if it were swatting flies.
A voice - operated computer assistant is set to be used in space for the first time on Monday — its operators hope it proves more reliable than «HAL», the treacherous speaking computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyspace for the first time on Monday — its operators hope it proves more reliable than «HAL», the treacherous speaking computer in the movie 2001: A Space OdySpace Odyssey.
Years later, Anders confessed that he had expected a more dramatic scene, thanks mostly to the spectacular moonscapes depicted in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he'd seen before the flight.
That might send shivers down the spine of anyone who watched HAL turn on its human controllers in Stanley Kubrick's «2001: A Space Odyssey».
Whether it's HAL 9000's murderous meltdown in 2001: A Space Odyssey or Skynet's sadistic self - preservation tactics in the Terminator franchise, artificial intelligence usually comes off as a well - intentioned attempt to serve humanity that — through some overlooked technical flaw — ends up trying to extinguish it.
ARTHUR C. Clarke was hooked on a toyshop game using 12 pieces of plastic, which he featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
It could allow us to program computers with human capabilities, helping them become more clever than HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey and C - 3PO in Star Wars.
Before the end of the decade men would walk on the moon, and the future, depicted most explicitly — and, we all thought, realistically — in 2001: A Space Odyssey, seemed so bright we needed shades.
Mars Odyssey, an orbiting craft launched in 2001, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), sent into space four years later in 2005, paved the way for Phoenix by identifying a safe landing spot from orbit.
Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staSpace Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staSpace Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staspace suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staspace station.
Clarke had invited us to his room at the historic Hotel Chelsea, where in the mid-1960s he worked on his best - known piece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
If the mirror were really really far... remember the scene in «2001: A Space Odyssey» in which David Bowman sees himself as a fetus in the womb?
ON THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE PACIFIC BASIN, A 10 - YEAR ODYSSEY WILL CULMINATE IN THE CAPTURE OF FIRST LIGHT FOR A TELESCOPE THAT MAY SURPASS SPACE - BASED OBSERVATORIES
Named in honor of film director Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay for the film 2001: a Space Odyssey with Sir Arthur and directed the film version.
Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missspace scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.
MSSS, a small, privately - owned company of ~ 60 employees located in San Diego, CA provides products and services in three main areas: Cameras for spacecraft; Spacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars Lander (PHX).
Most of the real biological laboratories I've visited, in fact, have been stark, white, fluorescent - lit environments that more resemble something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
He is not envisioning the type of «huge wheel in - space construction» that may leap to mind when thinking about artificial gravity — like the one in the iconic Chesley Bonestell painting or the movie 2001: A Space Odyspace construction» that may leap to mind when thinking about artificial gravity — like the one in the iconic Chesley Bonestell painting or the movie 2001: A Space OdySpace Odyssey.
In the early 1980s he wrote a sequel to «2001: A Space Odyssey» called «2010: Odyssey Two», with life under the ice of Europa central to the plot.
Compared by some to «2001: A Space Odyssey,» Cuarón's relatively intimate space epic is equally groundbreaking in the spectacular way it depicts sSpace Odyssey,» Cuarón's relatively intimate space epic is equally groundbreaking in the spectacular way it depicts sspace epic is equally groundbreaking in the spectacular way it depicts spacespace.
Toward the end, Garland brings in trippy visual elements from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the kind of puzzle - ending that seems destined to send viewers running to friends and the internet to unpack clues and spin theories.
2001: A Space Odyssey appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.20:1 on this single - sided, double - layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a meditative quest, an inspirational sci - fi film that defies its genre in scope and attitude, it is a film of tremendous visual impact and innovation.
A haunting and genuinely frightening, sci - fi mystery that's as elliptical and unnerving as Tarkovsky's Stalker and as trippy as Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - with a plethora of other science fiction influences thrown in for good measure.
Kubrick's perfect combination of technology and humanity in 2001: A Space Odyssey stands as our example.
But if you ask me, Kubrick's effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which were made by human hands, are still unsurpassed.
Back on topic: I've never read any Stanley Kubrick biographies or filmographies and don't know how Kubrick came to casting Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey... or if a viewing of The Hoodlum Priest might have sparked anything in Kubrick's mind.
Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is now re-released in cinemas, and after Christopher Nolan's flawed and heartfelt voyage in Interstellar, it is salutary to revisit the film which invented so many of its tropes and ideas.
Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Arthur C. Clarke, has infused 2001: A Space Odyssey with a continuously striking visual sensibility that remains a highlight from start to finish, as the filmmaker suffuses the proceedings with one absolutely astonishing set - piece after another - with, for example, Dave's gravity - defying jog within the spacecraft's interior nothing less than jaw - dropping in its impact.
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is irrevocably linked to three pieces of music: «Zarustrutha», Strauss» «Blue Danube Waltz», which is played over the docking sequence which takes place early in the film, and «Daisy».
No small screen, in particular, could do justice to the movie's hypnotic final half - hour, a cosmic brainstorm of indelible images — gnarled branches, spiraling staircases, an ecstatic vision of the void — that earns its near - wordless homage to «2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is highly recommended, especially for a whole new generation of young people who have probably never viewed the original 1968 movie in its entirety.
But there's one Science Fiction film that towers above all others of the genre, as well as all other films, and that is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which Warner Brothers barely released in time to actually be seen on a big screen during the relevant year.
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