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Worm your way out of the Big Apple, drive one hundred miles east, and you’ll find yourself gazing out at the question mark that dots the end of Long Island’s North Fork. Located a mile offshore of Orient Point, Plum Island Animal Disease Center is the rumored birthplace of the “Montauk Monster,” an international bioterrorism target, and the only place in the country that is authorized to work on live foot-and-mouth disease virus. Photographing the island is strictly prohibited. In Silence of the

finishes. One theme in this novel was most certainly the perils of technology. The novel explores technological innovation, its possibilities, and its perils. Hal controlled the navigation, held the controls for inner mechanisms, such as the doors and airlocks and pods, and controlled message relay from the Earth, etc. Given this power, Hal turned into a

On August 5th 2031, Alexander Grant was launched on a mission to the Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar. Quaoar (“Kwawar”) is primarily a rocky planet with a density of 2.2 g/cm2, setting it apart from its icy neighbors. Its small size and high density made it a prime target for extraterrestrial mining. Grant’s propose on Quaoar was to prospect the planet and set up autonomous miners for the soon to be Tongva Mining Facility. Alex Grant’s 6 billion kilometer journey to the outer reaches of the solar

intending to take the Endurance. Meanwhile, Romilly is killed by a booby trap Mann had set inside his own robot. Amelia rescues Cooper, and they race to the Endurance, where Mann is attempting to dock. Mann defies Cooper's order not to open the airlock, which fails catastrophically. Mann is killed and the Endurance is severely damaged. Cooper manages to use the landing craft to stabilize the ship. Using the black hole's gravity as a slingshot, they set the ship on course to Edmunds'

Mark Watney in the book, The Martian by Andy Weir stayed on Mars for over a year and a half. Alone and hopeless, from the day he was stranded to the day he left, it was a never ending struggle to survive taking a deep toll on him mentally and physically. Mark Watney’s personality and attitude never changed, he took the worse of situations and lightened them up, while still understanding fully of the seriousness of them. Traumatizing events and life threatening circumstances never even phased Watney

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Books with the utmost captivatingly complex characters, relatable themes and plots that keep us guessing in the unpredictable aura are those which reflect great capability. This idea is explored in ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’, a science-fiction novel written by Douglas Adams. A story regarding Arthur Dent and his friends, Ford Prefect, Trillian McMillan and Zaphod Beeblebrox travelling the universe to discover and explore Life, the Universe and Everything

hallucination and the reality Gerald is living in is a messed up reality, furthering the argument for why they are on Earth. Towards the end of the story after Mr. Elton has taken the yellow pill and Gerald ejected himself from what they considered the airlock. When Gerald had ejected himself it is described as, “Jerry’s chest quickly expanded, then collapsed as a mixture of phlegm and blood dribbled from his

hibernation areas for humans it puts them into a deep frozen sleep and Master Cheif found three survivors that way. Later after Master Chief ventured into space with nothing but his armour. After retrieving the tubes he returned to the ship and closed the airlocks. While he was observing the Cryotubes Cortana the Al system that is

The door was built into the side of a cliff, but about a foot of Martian dust had accumulated in front of the step. A red square was emblazoned on the front, with the yellow image of a hammer and sickle right in the center. Years of sand-blasting storms had taken their toll, chipping away at the edges of the paint until it was jagged and faded. Only the slightest outline of the letters "CCCP" were still visible. “Definitely Russian,” Commander Davis radioed back to the Mars habitat facility. “Soviet

The Martian takes place in a more present setting. Other projects, including ours, are more futuristic. The Martian seems closer to our time, like in the late 2020s. The habitat that Mark Watney lived in was made of cloth and metal, and had basic airlocks. Again, a vast majority of the mars colonization projects take place in the 3000s, or at least seem to, as they use glass domes and moon-sized rockets. The martian uses rockets