Picking nits one at a time. For Science.
Gather ’round, my friends. This is gonna be a rough one. 2012. I’m going to tackle this one timeline-style. 3m. Physicists in India discover that increased Solar activity is leading to lots more neutrinos being detected on Earth. Only 3 minutes in and already we need a science lesson! Neutrinos are weakly interacting particles. It’s … Read more
2047. The starship Event Horizon went missing seven years ago and has mysteriously reappeared in orbit around Neptune. In the opening scene, we see the Event Horizon in orbit over a large storm on Neptune. We know that all of the giant planets experience such storms, though they don’t have visible lightning and audible thunder that you … Read more
One of the themes I will be exploring over the next few weeks is apocalypse prediction movies, and while it may seem logical to start with the biggest one, at least from the recent past, I’m instead going to start with an astronomical flare (pun unfortunately intended). 2012: Supernova is our first entry in a cavalcade … Read more
