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He also starred in the BBC series I, Claudius, in the 1970s, playing Sejanus, head of the Praetorian Guard, who gets sacked and killed after falling out of Emperor Tiberius's favor. Tiberius was afraid that he had gained too much power and influence.I think a young Caligula suggests to his uncle...

https://deadline.com/2026/10/patrick-stewart-dead-1237208580/

Yes, the first monolith introduces tool-making and intelligence. The second moon monolith can only be found once a species can travel in space. It sends a signal to Jupiter for the next step. Humanity follows the signal to the Jupiter monolith, where they are transformed again into the star...

One problem glossed over in Star Trek is warp speed. Youtube video showed examples of warp speed and how long it took to clear orbits and then the solar system and you begin to see the problem. Thats not even considering the relativistic effects of aging as they travel from planet to planet...

Star Trek original series had the M5 computer with the horizontal and vertical lighting. It was later used in the Gary Seven episode...

I liked the WOPR of Wargames and the Star Trek M5 computers. Their lighting effects were awesome.

Mainframe computers of the sixties in TV shows and movies would drive me batty to see the tape drives just spinning the tape, instead of the jerky reads and writes, the tape being sucked into the vacuum wells.

I love Stargate, but I realize the use of constellations in the Series leaves much to be desired. However, from a storytelling point of view it makes sense. It ties the audience to the notion of somewhere out there and we can dial the location. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_%28device%29

The Man from Earth was written by Jerome Bixby, the author of the Star Trek episode Requium for Methusalah. A story of Flint, a genius who lives on a planet full of Ritalin, an ingredient Dr McCoy needs for a life saving drug.

Having not read through the comments, I thought you might like to know about these cool sci-fi movies: - Clara ( Patrick Adams and his wife star in an indie movie about love and finding an exoplanet) - Cosmos, where three members of a team discover a UFO -Man from Earth, where a man lives for...

Yes its i over 8. I just realized it now.

thank you I ate!

There's a more modern field of math, Geometric Calculus, that encompasses Vector and Tensor Analysis, which I find interesting. One thing they address is the vector cross product, which they subsume under the geometric product.

AI is like a djinn; be careful what you ask for and what you let it access. It reminds me of Shakespeare's The Tempest or the sci-fi story Forbidden Planet, where the power of AI is harnessed by the Id, and we are no more.

Brings back memories of reading Wheeler’s Gravitation tome preprints as a junior physics major.