Interstellar

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Christopher Nolan's explosion

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Analysis Culture Scicomm AMD AMD FirePro carbon credits carbon emissions CGI Christopher Nolan climate change Furmark benchmark fx GPU graphics processing units Interstellar negative externalities Nvidia Nvidia Quadro One Health special effects Tenet

In May, Total Film reported that the production team of Tenet, led by director Christopher Nolan, found that using a second-hand Boeing 747 was better than recreating a scene involving an exploding pl…

For space, frugality is a harmful aspiration

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Op-eds Chandrayaan ESA frugal engineering frugal innovation gravity hollywood Indian Space Research Organisation Interstellar ISRO K Sivan labour costs Mars Orbiter Mission Moneycontrol NASA NASA MAVEN public sector undertaking quality control Times of India

Ref: 'ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 mission to cost lesser than Hollywood movie Interstellar - here's how they make it cost-effective', staff, Moneycontrol, February 20, 2018. ∞ 'Chandray…

All the science in 'The Cloverfield Paradox'

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Science black holes compactification high dimensions Interstellar Kaluza-Klein theory Large Hadron Collider particle accelerators Quantum mechanics special theory of relativity Spectral string theory The Cloverfield Paradox wave function wavefunction

I watched The Cloverfield Paradox last night, the horror film that Paramount pictures had dumped with Netflix and which was then released by Netflix on February 4. It's a dumb production: unlike H…