Gort Revisits DC 60 Years After The Day the Earth Stood Still
The 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still tells the story of an alien named Klaatu who travels to Earth with his robot companion Gort to warn us against continuing down the path toward...
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A couple of days ago I went to see Into Darkness, the second movie in the J.J. Abrams Star Trek “reboot” series. I had read a couple of reviews of the movie (one lukewarm and the other positive) and I...
View ArticleThe Day the Earth Stood Still
An article in today’s New York Times traces this summer’s crop of doomsday movies back to the 1951 classic sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still. In that movie an alien named Klaatu travels to...
View ArticleSpiders From Mars
In 1997, NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor discovered what have come to be referred to as “spiders” on the surface of Mars. Several years later, a team of scientists was able to determine the cause of these...
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