Gemini Man 's time-warped weirdness is appropriate to Will Smith's blockbuster career; he makes a lot of high-tech science fiction movies, but he always seems to keep one foot in the past. Independence Day is as much a 1970s disaster-movie throwback as an alien invasion picture! Gemini Man is a cinematic throwback, but it may be the ...gemini - ...it...Gemini Man is a cinematic throwback, but it may be the future ...!! I, Robot turned a seminal science fiction text into a generic cop action thriller! Why 'Gemini Man' Trailer Feels Like a '90s Throwback ...gemini - man ...But the '90s , the world in which Gemini Man was conceived, the world that welcomed original sci-fi films like Stargate (1994), Contact (1997), Armageddon (1997) and The Matrix (1999), is long ...!! Even the snappy Men in Black is largely a streamlined Ghostbusters riff. On top of all that, Smith famously turned down the forward-thinking futurist classic The Matrix and wound up doing a different, vastly less iconic 1999 science fiction / action picture instead: Wild Wild West .
Twenty years ago, Wild Wild West was considered Smith's first major financial and critical misfire . Though these days, a movie star getting his critically reviled project over $100 million single-handedly would seem pretty impressive! Flipboard: Film Review: 'Gemini Man': Is It a ...flipboard.com/article/ ...gemini - man ...Gemini Man is a cinematic throwback , but it may be the future of blockbusters , too. The Verge - Jesse Hassenger!! Gemini Man is a better movie in many ways, but it still has an odd kinship with Smith's most notorious (though far from worst) big-budget endeavor! The Technology Behind 'Gemini Man' And Why It's The Future ...atomtickets.com/ movie ...gemini - ...movies The clearest and most immediate limitation of Gemini Man is a simple one: Theaters simply aren't ready for it . Lee shot his movie in 3D at 120fps and in 4K, and that's how he intends for audiences to see it. But American theaters lag far behind when it comes to projection technology.!! Wild Wild West certainly wasn't an equivalent technological marvel in its day. Even in 1999, its green-screen effects were dodgy, and its massive computer-animated mechanical spider was unconvincing! Is 'Gemini Man' a Remake? Fans Think the Plot Seems Very ...gemini - ...remake Is Gemini Man a remake ? No, it is not. But there's a good reason that it feels like it is, and that's because development for this particular movie started way back in 1997 with Tony Scott at the helm (The Last Boy Scout, The Fan, Man on Fire ).!! From its clunky special effects to its steampunk-Western aesthetic to its TV source material to its employment of Kenneth Branagh as a legless Confederate general, almost nothing about Wild Wild West could be called influential.
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Event Horizon Telescope Snags New Funding to Capture 1st Movie of a Black Hole | Space
This spring, scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole — but what they really want is to create a movie of a black hole.
For that, the team will need to involve more instruments in the project, and the Event Horizon Telescope just got money to start making that happen. The grant of $12.7 million comes from the National Science Foundation, which is a long-term funding source for the black hole imagery project.
"The spectacular … results have surpassed our wildest expectations, and I am deeply proud of what we achieved as a team," Shep Doeleman, the founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope and an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a statement . "Now the question one hears the most is, 'What's next?'"
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"Our own Milky Way is host to a supermassive black hole that evolves dramatically over the course of a night," Katie Bouman, a computer scientist at Caltech who is involved in the Event Horizon Telescope, said in a statement . "We are developing new methods, which incorporate emerging ideas from machine learning and computational imaging, in order to make the very first movies of gas spiraling towards an event horizon."
Seth Shipman recorded a movie in DNA — and that's just the beginning | Science News
Seth Shipman is a magpie of biological innovation. He collects useful parts — from bacteria, nerve cells, reams of genetic data — and transforms them into tools that do amazing things.
Imagine designing record-keeping cells capable of eavesdropping on the cellular destruction that precedes dementia in the brain. Or monitoring the elaborate genetic instructions that tell a brain cell how to develop. Or even seeing the exact moment when cellular missteps begin to create a disorder such as schizophrenia.
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Scientists can't do any of this yet. But Shipman, 36, is patient. "If you're worried about what you can do right now, it's hard to take a big step forward," says Shipman, a biotechnologist at the University of California, San Francisco and the Gladstone Institutes, a nonprofit research organization on the UC San Francisco campus. To move forward often requires a pause, a careful reckoning to examine your tools and look around a bit, Shipman says.
Light-regulated collective contractility in a multicellular choanoflagellate | Science
In contrast to plants and fungi, animals can deform their bodies by the collective activity of contractile cells. Collective contractility underlies processes such as gastrulation and muscle-based motility. Brunet et al. report that a close relative of animals, a choanoflagellate they name Choanoeca flexa , forms cup-shaped colonies that undergo collective contractility, leading to a rapid change in colony morphology (see the Perspective by Tomancak). C. flexa colonies are each composed of a monolayer of polarized cells. In response to sudden darkness, a light-sensing protein triggers coordinated, polarized contraction of C. flexa cells, which results in colony inversion. The cellular mechanisms underlying this process are conserved between C. flexa and animals, indicating that their last common ancestor was also capable of polarized cell contraction.
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Scientists plan to film black hole at the Milky Way galaxy's center - Insider
In April, an international team of scientists captured the first-ever photo of a black hole. In September, they won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for that accomplishment. But they're far from finished.
Next, the team behind the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is planning a cinematic debut. The subject: the supermassive black hole at the center of our own galaxy.
The new project, called next-generation EHT (ngEHT), aims to capture real-time videos of the Milky Way's black hole to observe its behavior and see how it changes its environment.
"We can see the black hole evolve in real time," Shep Doeleman, an astronomer who leads the global EHT team, told Business Insider. "Then we can understand how it launches these jets that come from its north and south poles. We can see how it evolves with the galaxy. We can even test Einstein's gravity in completely different ways, by looking at the orbits of matter — not light, but matter — around the black hole."
"The Science Behind Pixar" comes to Denver Museum of Nature & Science
As the Ph.D. curator of space science at Denver Museum of Nature & Science, he specializes in plunging wide-eyed visitors into virtual environments for the sake of education and enlightenment.
Similar, perhaps, to what the Disney-owned Pixar Animation Studios has been doing for the past two-plus decades. Starting with 1995’s “Toy Story” and continuing through the recent “Incredibles 2” and “Toy Story 4,” Pixar has revolutionized computer animation and told enduring stories that resonate with all ages of viewers — while also raking in billions at the box office .
“The Science Behind Pixar.” Interactive, traveling exhibit on digital animation. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily Oct. 11-April 5, 2020, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd. Reservations encouraged. $25-$30 (includes museum admission). 303-370-6000 or dmns.org
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