Thursday, April 18, 2024
When a movie achieves the status of being a “classic,” and merchandise for said film floods stores, it becomes an icon. Normalized by “appearing” in the everyday lives of the populace, the classic can eventually feel as if it always existed, with the producer’s intentions and influences behind the film […]
“I wish we could go to a galaxy far, far away!” “Lili!” shrieked one of her older sisters as Lili’s feet began transforming into tiny white comets. “What’s happening?” her other sister cried, panic in her voice. Gripping both of their arms tightly, Lili reassured them with a calming, reasonable […]
Greetings, O curious reader! Hast thou also entered this realm of blissful procrastination that thy scholarly sufferings may be alleviated? Fear not, for thou wilt soon ward off deadlines with a lightsaber of thine own. I myself shall instruct thee in its fashioning, which happily requires nought but the most […]
Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is commonly thought to be impossible. Einstein established this in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905. The speed of light, he said, is an unbreakable constant. FTL travel will never exist if his theory is to be accepted—and it is, almost universally. However, gravity is a […]