Badass Sci Fi’s History of Future Nows- Part 2- on Mars!
The Mars Perseverance Rover launched July 30, 2020 at 4:50 a.m. PDT (that would be yesterday at the time of this post). It’s the first step in NASA-ESA’s ambitious sample return mission. If all goes as planned, the first interplanetary samples should get here around 2031. But nothing goes...
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3 Badass Sci Fi Pandemic Movies to Watch While Under Quarantine
. First off, good health to all. Stay safe, make informed decisions, and for the love of all that is good in the world, be excellent to each other. But if you’re gonna hole up and ride this out, you might as well put something truly apocalyptic on the...
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Troping Balls: Why Badass Sci Fi Loves Tropes
“A trope, particularly in cinema, since neither of you give off the impression of being well-read, is a widely recognized storytelling convention containing several layers of contextual meaning for the intended audience, thus creating an identifiable visual upon which said observer can relate based on prior knowledge. Examples include...
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