Science Fiction

STAR TRAM magnetic launch system. From Wikimedia Commons

From a space elevator to a solar sail: science fiction ideas waiting for a breakthrough

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From the multi-stage rocket and geostationary satellite to a space elevator, rocket-free launch, and "rods from God" – ideas born of literary imagination continue to shape the 21st century vision of space.
A robot that incorporates Asimov's three laws of robotics. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Asimov's Laws Are Returning to the Discussion Table, But Military Artificial Intelligence Is Already Much More Complicated

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The wars in Ukraine and Iran, the Anthropic conflict, and the UN debates are sharpening the call to regulate autonomous weapons and military artificial intelligence. But Asimov's laws of robotics, as the story "Shor Shor" illustrates, are also intended to expose
The evolution of the Martian landscape: from red to a blue-green planet with water and vegetation. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Landing on Mars is no longer science fiction – this is what it could look like

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A view of a planet in a multi-sun system. A dialogue between science fiction and science. Credit: The Science website via DALEE

Double suns and alien worlds: the science fiction journey from Tatooine to reality

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Scientists used Bayesian network analysis to study how scientific discoveries influence science fiction literature
Few people have left such an impressive mark on the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Emanuel Lotem Photo: Shay Avidan, Wikipedia

The translator Emanuel Lotem, who founded an entire community of science fiction and popular science enthusiasts, has passed away.

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The cover of the book The Fate of Humanity - The Keeper of the Key

"The Fate of Mankind: The Keeper of the Key" - a new science fiction book

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The book's cover illustrator is veteran comic book artist Roger Bonet, who has worked with Marvel and DC Comics on a variety of well-known titles such as "Iron Man," "The Avengers," "Spider-Man," "Nightwing" and "Batman" * Excerpt from the book
A soldier in science fiction. Illustration: depositphotos.com

How governments use science fiction to predict potential threats

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There are many topics that science fiction deals with that will undoubtedly feed defense research around warfare and ways to reduce risk. While we can never predict the future completely, we can only
The foundation series poster, based on the book series by Isaac Asimov. Photo: APPLE TV+

The galactic institution - the last barrier to barbarism in the TV series, and who will save us in reality from returning to the Middle Ages?

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Did Asimov predict humanity's collapse back into the Middle Ages where respect for knowledge is your knowledge and ignorance will take over? It turns out that the denial of science as it is expressed even more strongly justifies Asimov's fear. appear to be
A plan for building submarines dating back to 1860 was probably the inspiration for Jules Ron, but the original idea was already put forward by Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, in 1666. Photo: shutterstock

writing the future

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Surprisingly, it's not the information scientists, nor the futurists - but the science fiction writers who have many times succeeded in predicting the future: flights into space, satellites, submarines, even the credit card and the iPad. And how creepy, two writers
Isaac Asimov. Illustration: shutterstock

100 years since the birth of Isaac Asimov: how he described 2019 (and a rich archive)

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The cover of the first issue of the magazine Fantasia 2000. From Wikipedia

Fantasia 2000: Soon you will be able to read all the issues online * The founders of the magazine are applying for crowdfunding

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Robots are taking over the workplace. Illustration: shutterstock

Predicting the future - an MDB writer who predicts what will happen in a world where robots do everything

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An airplane without moving parts developed in MIT laboratories. Screenshot from YouTube

Inspired by the Madhav, a plane with no moving parts and a blue ionic glow

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In Dyson's 1988 collection of essays, he envisions an intelligence spreading across the entire universe and turning it into a vast cosmic mind. "What will the mind choose to do when it knows and controls the entire universe?" Illustration: pixabay.

What is a machine as smart as God would like?

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A view of a planet outside the solar system. The science fiction of the XNUMXs. Illustration: shutterstock

Why science fiction is necessary for our survival in the future

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The robot BB-8 in action. Image from the movie "The Force Awakens". Photography: David James

What will happen when robots have feelings?

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The poster of the "Hanik" series. From Wikipedia. They teach the history of medical science.

Between science and science fiction on television

Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) arrive in 2015. Screenshot from the movie "Back to the Future 2"

Even without flying cars, the real future is much more interesting than the one predicted in the movie "Back to the Future 2"

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The original Godzilla movie poster from 1954

Iggy Tsuburaya, the stunt man behind the Godzilla movies

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Actor Leonard Nimoy and his wife Susan at the opening of a film of the "Star Trek" film series in Hollywood, 3/4/2009. Photo: s_bukley / Shutterstock.com

Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock from "Star Trek" has died

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From the movie "The Planet of the Apes - Dawn". PR photo

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The Cosmic Calendar, a screenshot from the series "Cosmos" presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Photo: FOX and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Science deniers were angry about the second episode of the Cosmos series which dealt with evolution

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From the promo for the Cosmos series, broadcast on the Fox and National Geographic networks. From YOUTUBE

Neil deGrasse Tyson, presenter of the series Cosmos: "If Sagan were alive, he would be most surprised by the fact that we still have to argue that science is important to society."

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Advertising poster for the return of the Cosmos series.

The mythological TV series "Cosmos" is back - it will be screened from today, on all stations, precisely on Fox

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Isaac Asimov on a throne full of hints about his works. From Wikipedia. GNU license (link to image)

What did Asimov foresee in 1964 that would be established in the Negev in 2014?

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time traveler Illustration: shutterstock

Time travel - the cognitive paradox

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A British postal stamp issued in 1999 commemorating the series Dr. Who. Photo: Neftali / Shutterstock.com

Jubilee for the Doctor Who series - each Doctor brought with him new scientific developments

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Right: Prof. Dan Shahar and Mouz Ovadia. Conductivity and insulation

Between opposition and symmetry

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Actors present 'Star Wars' characters at an event in London, October 2012. Nando Machado / Shutterstock.com

Has the path to the development of the lightsaber of the Jedi Knights and the Sith been found?

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The set of photographs of the city of 'Mos Aspa' on the planet Tatooine - located in the Sahara Desert in Tunisia in the days before it was covered by a sand dune. Photo: shutterstock

Tatooine on the brink of destruction - a sand dune threatens the photo set in Tunisia

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The cover of the book The Incarnation by Franz Kafka

130 years since the birth of Franz Kafka - about cockroaches and humans, following the story "The Incarnation"

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The short Israeli science fiction film sight presents a near future where contact lenses work like "Google glasses" and augmented reality is part of everyday life. The film, considered one of the best short science fiction films of 2012, was produced as a final project at Bezalel. Directed by: Daniel Lazo and Eran Mi-Raz. Game: Uri Gulad and Deborah Arushas (photo courtesy of the creators).

Spotlight - in praise of the fictional work / Uri Aviv

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The cover of the Silicon Jungle book

38 needles in a haystack - an episode from the technological thriller "Silicon Jungle" by Shomit Baloja

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The scene of transferring humans using the tow beam from the spaceship Enterprise to the land of the nearby planet from the series Star Trek.

Beam me up Scotty: But only for quantum particles

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George Takei, Solo from the original Star Trek series, greeted NASA employees with "live long and prosperous lives" during his 2008 visit to the Goddard Space Center in Maryland. Photo: NASAT

The science of Star Trek

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The character of Frankenstein in the 1910 Edison film. From Wikipedia

The loneliness of human beings

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The machine won a place of supremacy. From the movie "Metropolis" (1927). Screenshot

Robot vs. Human

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Writer Ray Bradbury, from Wikishare

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who died yesterday, wanted to be the first person to be buried on Mars

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Ray Bradbury in a photo from 1975. From Wikipedia

Ray Bradbury who died last night was right: you don't have to burn books you can just make people not read them

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A diagram of the next generation starship Atnerprise. Figure BuildTheEnterprise.org

An engineer claims to build a spacecraft like the Enterprise from Star Trek within 20 years

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From Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut. Courtesy of Cinematech Herzliya

Herzliya Cinematheque is holding a free screening of the movie Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut

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The Lord of the Rings movie poster, which was produced based on the book

An exempt thief writer - about J.R.R. Tolkien and 'The Lord of the Rings'

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"Another Country" movie poster

The 15th International Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival will open on October 15th

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A planned park diagram in Aqaba based on the Star Trek series. Courtesy of the greenpropghet website

A crazy park based on the Star Trek series will be established in Aqaba and will demonstrate cleantech technologies

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To what extent will the movie "Back to the Future" succeed in predicting the technological future in 2015?

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the cover of the book

"The Book of Haaretz" - a sociological analysis

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The Tik-Tok robot from The Wizard of Oz (not to be confused with the Tin Man!)

Robotics - exemplary robots / Michael Anderson and Susan Lee Anderson

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Jules Verne

Success has two fathers - Jules Verne and Pierre Hetzel

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The cover of the book "Living in a Strange Land"

"Living in a foreign land" - a sociological analysis

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The cover of the book Gal Mokh by Paul Anderson, Maariv Publishing 1980

What would happen if everyone suddenly became smart?

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