"Here's looking at you, kid." "I'm Spartacus." "There's no place like home."

These are quotes most of us are as familiar with as our own homes (especially now we're spending so much time in them), but, if you're truly honest, how many of you have actually seen the films that spawned these lines?

Movies such as Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind have featured in myriad lists of the industry's best creations over the years, yet were not released in our lifetime.

We might have all made it down to Vox to check out the latest Avengers flick, but not everyone was around when Lawrence of Arabia first made it to cinemas.

But, with most of us spending our days at home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, there's never been a better time to continue your movie education.

So, put the new season of Ozark on pause, and get ready to plug some gaps in your cinematic knowledge with these 21 cult favourites.

Year: 1939

Director: Victor Fleming

Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland

This is the perfect one to start with now you're rightfully spending entire weekends at home. Why? Because it's nearly four hours long. That's right, you're going to need to stock up on snacks and take regular tea breaks to power through this epic romance, which is set in the South during the American Civil War. Vivien Leigh plays the determined, optimistic Scarlett O'Hara, who becomes entangled in a series of romances over the years, all sparked by a desire to instil jealousy in her childhood crush. Admittedly, it has not dated well, featuring insensitively handled issues around racism and slavery, but still includes valuable messages of hope and perseverance.

Year: 1960

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons

Kirk Douglas died at the age of 103 last month, so now seems like a poignant time to honour him by watching his, arguably, greatest piece of work. In this 184-minute historical classic, the actor portrays the namesake gladiator who was a key figure in the slave rebellion against the Roman republic in the Third Servile War. Stanley Kubrick's film won four Academy Awards, and its battle scenes, as well as the tear-jerking end, have more than stood the test of time.

Year: 1962

Director: David Lean

Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

This desert epic tells the story of T E Lawrence, the British army officer who joined the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. The film is based on Lawrence's writings about his experience in the Middle East during the First World War, and deals with issues of identity, morality and comradery. It took home seven Oscars in 1963, including Best Picture, and is still cited by many modern filmmakers as an inspiration in terms of cinematography, plot and pacing.

Year: 1946

Director: Frank Capra

Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

This film might not have impressed Phoebe Buffay all that much when she watched it for the first time in Friends, but most first-timers are usually won over by this Christmassy tale of love and loss. The story follows George Bailey, a man on the brink, who is visited by a guardian angel show shows him how he has affected the lives of those around him. It's poignant, heartening, and a good option if you're in the market for a big, ugly cry.

Year: 1939

Director: Victor Fleming

Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger

Put any prejudices about musicals aside, because this fantastical tale will win over even the most cynical of viewers. In her break-out role, Judy Garland plays Dorothy, a Kansas teen whisked away to the magical land of Oz in a tornado. She comes up against witches and flying monkeys and bands together with a rag-tag group of friends in her quest to find the land's wizard and return home. It's full of pop culture references and some of the genre's most enduring tunes.

Year: 1955

Director: Nicholas Ray

Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo

James Dean's seminal film, which was released just a month after his untimely death, is a searing portrait of suburban, middle-class teens battling against ideas of conformity and inter-generational conflict (so still very much relevant today). It also spawned the famous line "you're tearing me apart", delivered by a tortured Dean to his parents, which was echoed in Tommy Wiseau's infamous The Room.

Year: 1944

Director: Billy Wilder

Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson

This film noir is an exemplary demonstration of its genre, in which an an insurance salesman plots to murder one of his clients. Co-written by crime author Raymond Chandler, the script is full of suspense and heart-wrenching dialogue, setting the standard for all film noirs ever since.

Year: 1963

Director: John Sturges

Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough

Even if you're unfamiliar with the plot, you'll likely be able to hum the celebrated theme tune by composer Elmer Bernstein. The song accompanies the real-life tale of a band of Allied prisoners-of-war, who mount a daring plan to escape their German camp during the Second World War. You'll spend more time on the edge of your seat with this one than you will with you back flat against it.

Year: 1942

Director: Michael Curtiz

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

This romantic drama is also set against the backdrop of the Second World War, following the story of an American living in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city. When his former love begs him for help to escape to the US with her fugitive Resistance leader husband, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine must decide which will win: his heart or his head. There's a reason this is still touted as Hollywood's greatest romance.

Year: 1957

Director: Reginald Rose

Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Martin Balsam

Is this still the courtroom drama to beat all other courtroom dramas? Quite possibly. It's a gripping portrait of the American justice system, following a jury as they deliberate whether to convict a teen of allegedly murdering his father. The tense, behind-closed-doors action offers up questions of morality, value and influence, as it all plays out over a single afternoon.

Year: 1960

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

If you've never seen a single Alfred Hitchcock film, it's worth delving deeper into the director's back catalogue. However, if you've only got time for one, make it this (though it's a tough call to choose between Psycho and Rear Window). This one wins, however, because it essentially created a new genre: the slasher flick. The psychological thriller follows a secretary on the run after she embezzles a fortune from her real-estate employer and checks into the Bates Motel. We probably all know the gripping bathroom scene, but now's your chance to see how the action arrives at the moment.

Year: 1965

Director: Robert Wise

Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

If the cheery tunes in this Rodgers and Hammerstein favourite can't brighten a day spent indoors, then what can? Based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, this musical drama follows a Postulant governess who is sent to the home of a Austrian naval officer widow and his seven children. Julie Andrews's Maria slowly wins over the affections of the children and their reticent father at a time when their homeland falls to German rule. (The music is truly more upbeat than that description would have you believe).

Year: 1941

Director: Orson Welles

Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

Orson Welles's first feature film, which scored a raft of Oscar nods although only walked away with Best Writing, is centred around the death of publishing magnate. Reporters scramble to figure out the meaning of the tycoon's last words, delving into his personal and professional life on their mission.

Year: 1959

Director: Billy Wilder

Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

Marilyn Monroe's life and loves are familiar to many, but not all have sat through her body of work, which includes hits such as The Seven Year Itch and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Some Like It Hot, though, is probably the funniest of her comedy work, following two musicians who witness a crime and try to flee the mob by ingratiating themselves among a female band where they meet Monroe's Sugar.

Year: 1966

Director: Sergio Leone

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

The uninitiated might expect your typical spaghetti Western to be all gun-slinging, non-stop action. Instead, they're usually a nuanced affair full of drawn-out staring and tense stand-offs, as evidenced in this Clint Eastwood classic. Three men form an uneasy, and tempestuous alliance, in a bid to find a buried hoard of gold in this film, which was marketed at the final instalment in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy but easily works as a standalone watch.

Year: 1968

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

This mind-bending, sci-fi number is an odyssey in name, odyssey in nature, needing your full attention in all its 142 minutes. The tale charts a journey to Jupiter to discover the origins of a mysterious artefact, and has been credited as admirably accurate in terms of science and space travel. It's slow, graceful and slim on dialogue, and still held up as one of the most influential films, most certainly of its genres, ever made.

Year: 1964

Director: George Cukor

Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway

The last of our musical suggestions is this reimagining of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with Audrey Hepburn as Cockney-flower-seller-turned-demure-lady Eliza Doolittle. The plot follows that all-too-familiar premise, a tale set in motion by a bet, in which professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, endeavours to make Doolittle passable as a duchess. After you're done with this, also make time for Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Year: 1975

Director: Milos Forman

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson

If you're after an easy, breezy, lighthearted watch, this isn't it. In an adaption of Ken Kesey's novel, Jack Nicholson plays Randle, a new patient at a psychiatric ward, who clashes with a domineering nurse. The actor gives a performance that ends with a particularly moving scene that rightfully netted him a Best Actor Oscar.

Year: 1979

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall

This star-studded war drama follows a US Army officer, stationed in Vietnam, tasked with assassinating a rebel Special Forces colonel based in Cambodia. It's a stirring, gripping watch that offers a dark and darkly comic, at moments look at some of the absurdities of war.

Year: 1972

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan

Francis Ford Coppola's other pioneering work is an exploration of what it means to be family, as much as it is a thrilling portrait of the mafia. Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone, the head of a crime dynasty, is priming his reluctant son to take over the family business, in a study of morality, loyalty and honour. It's a riveting saga that will entrance even those who prefer rom-coms or sci-fi.

Year: 1975

Director: Steven Spielberg

Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

Duh-duh ... duh-duh ... duh-duh duh-duh duh-dud. The theme song is as synonymous with the concept of being scared as it is this marine horror flick, in which a white shark terrorises a small American island. A cop, marine biologist and professional shark hunter team up to try and take down the beast, in this suspenseful tale that left a lot of '70s kids unable to sleep for weeks.

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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Nike Air Max 90, the classic running sneaker loved for its clean design and simple details. Many consider the style to be the second flagship in the Air Max family, behind only the trailblazing Air Max 1. (Both shoes were designed by the legendary Tinker Hatfield.) For Air Max Day 2020, the Nike-invented sneakerhead holiday, the Swoosh is paying homage to the countless Air Max releases over the years with a grip of new colorways and iterations. The standout is the future-inspired Nike Air Max 2090.

The bold-looking Nike Air Max 2090 takes clear inspiration from the Air Max 90, from its big visible Air bubble to its pared-down silhouette, but as a shoe it's also wholly it's own. It's more of a spiritual sequel. While the original 90 looks the part of a classic running shoe, the 2090 is a re-cladding of the silhouette to seemingly prepare it for space travel (an idea Nike appears to be quite taken with these days). There's a blend of transparent fabric and bold graphics. Virgil Abloh-esque stitching details abound. The Nike Air Max 2090 has also been upgraded with a softer underfoot and comes with an internal lining with a padded heel so you can also feel like you're walking on the moon. All of this adds up for a sneaker that melds timelessness with right-now vibes in equal measure.

"Air Max Day" typically yields a variety of high-concept sneakers, with Nike pulling deep cuts from its archive and exploring new trajectories and designs for its most beloved sneakers. The colors on this Air Max 2090 are meant to evoke "a future state where roads are dominated by electric and solar-powered vehicles." Nike's vision of the future is clearly soft shades of silver and hints of lilac-blue, dusty red, and black. Other Air Max 90 sneakers to drop on the occasion include a version decked out in duck camo print (a cult-loved collaboration with New York retailer Atmos) and a trio of shiny and metallic versions (previously only available through Nike's custom "By You" program).

Does a superfluous sneaker holiday amidst the global pandemic feel a little...off? Maybe. But Air Max Day is really for the diehard fans to celebrate the style and history of a much beloved sneaker legacy. Let the sneakerheads have their fun.

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A1952 version of the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile is just one of the artifacts of industry presented at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.Themuseum's website hosts a digital collection available for Michiganders stuck inside. (Alan Solomon/Chicago Tribune viaTNS)

A1952 version of the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile is just one of the artifacts of industry presented at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.Themuseum's website hosts a digital collection available for

A1952 version of the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile is just one of the artifacts of industry presented at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.Themuseum's website hosts a digital collection available for Michiganders stuck inside. (Alan Solomon/Chicago Tribune viaTNS)

A1952 version of the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile is just one of the artifacts of industry presented at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.Themuseum's website hosts a digital collection available for

Pure Michigan: Experience the state virtually

Pure Michigan is going virtual.

From live cams featuring beautiful beaches to virtual tours of unique exhibits, Pure Michigan is helping bring the states educational, outdoor and cultural experiences to life at home through its new #VirtualPureMichigan campaign.

New virtual experiences will be posted regularly across Pure Michigans Facebook, Instagram and Twitter channels in the coming weeks as people are being encouraged to Stay Home and Stay Safe to combat the continued spread of COVID-19.

During these extraordinary times, we want to continue to do what Pure Michigan does best inspire people while offering alternative ways to experience the stay at home and follow social distancing guidelines, said Dave Lorenz, vice president of Travel Michigan, part of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

By sharing the tremendous virtual offerings our travel partners across the state have available, we are hoping that individuals can enjoy, learn and explore our beautiful state from the comfort of their own homes as they look ahead to future adventures.

Organizations around the state are offering virtual experiences for all to enjoy, including:

Pure Michigan live web cams: Destinations including Alpena, Holland, Frankenmuth, West Michigan and the Mackinac Bridge. michigan.org/webcams

The Ann Arbor Film Festival: The entire festival will be live-streamed for free through Sunday, including all submitted films and follow up discussions with participating filmmakers. aafilmfest.org/live-stream-schedule.

The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation: Digital collections include stories of ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation that helped shape America, in addition to a virtual tour of the Mathematica exhibit. thehenryford.org/virtual-visit-to-henry-ford-museum

Frederik Meijer Gardens: Get a sense of spring with a live stream of the butterfly exhibit along with daily storytimes and virtual visits. meijergardens.org/virtual-visits.

Detroit Institute of Arts: Take a virtual field trip with Detroit Public Television. dptv.org/education/digital-adventure

Michigan History Museum: The five-floor museum offers a virtual tour for folks to explore and learn about Michigans first people, the Anishinaabe and ending at the mid-20th century. michigan.gov/mhc

Michigan Science Center: Kids of all ages can explore the health and wellness gallery to learn about the human body, the lunar and space gallery to learn about space travel and more. mi-sci.org/visit/family-groups/venue-rental/virtual-tour/

Menominee Range Historical Museums: Three museums in the U.P. the Menominee Range Historical Museum, World War II Gilder and Military Museum and Cornish Pumping Engine and Mining Museum each offers virtual tours. menomineemuseum.com

Sault Ste. Marie: Paddle out into the St. Mary's River from Voyager Island and Rotary Park in Sault St. Marie on this 360 virtual guided tour. This water trail gives you a front row seat to Great Lakes freighters passing through the channel on their way to and from the Soo Locks. saultstemarie.com/take-a-sault-ste-marie-virtual-tour/

Manistee Natural Wonders Self-Guided Tours: Explore Manistee County's rich history and natural beauty. visitmanisteecounty.com/project/natural-wonders-self-guided-tour

Under the Radar Michigan: The PBS television program features the people, places and things that make Michigan a great place to be. utrmichigan.com/videos/

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For about two months, Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) was one of the hottest names on Wall Street as SPCE stocks more than quadrupled from the start of 2020 through the end of February.

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Then the bottom fell out of the market due to the coronavirus from China, prompting harsh treatment of growth and momentum names. Smaller, less profitable stocks such as Virgin Galactic were particularly hard hit. Give some of the analysts that cover this name credit. Aware that SPCE stock had run too far, too fast, they hastened the stocks tumble with some late February downgrades.

For example, Credit Suisse analyst Robert Spingarn lowered SPCE to hold from buy in late February, citing frothy multiples.

We find ourselves no longer able to recommend [Virgin Galactic] shares after a [roughly] 185% year to date run (through 2/25) and commensurate expansion in the stocks multiple, said the analyst.

Morgan Stanleys Adam Jonas made a similar call, taking the stock from a buy to a hold, based on valuation.

Even with Virgin Galactic 64% below its 52-week high, it still trades for a jaw-dropping 755 times its sales.

One of Virgin Galactics primary markets is space tourism, and theres certainly growth to be had there. A report published by UBS last year said that high-speed space travel would eventually disrupt traditional, long-haul, passenger air travel. The firm predicted that space travel would become a $20 billion industry by 2030, with space tourism generating $3 billion by that year.

The outlook for the space economy, space tourism and long-haul travel using space has become much more bullish, according to UBS.

Those are compelling estimates. But even if space tourism becomes a $3 billion industry, that may not be a massive needle mover for SPCE stock because the shares already have a market capitalization of $2.9 billion. The other issue is the limited audience for space tourism due to its high cost.

Its one thing for tech companies to make pricey aspirational products. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) does that with smartphones, and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) does it with electric vehicles. But those companies products are far more attainable for regular people than space tourism. By some estimates, a trip to the final frontier with Virgin Galactic could cost a cool $250,000, or more than quadruple the average American salary of just over $56,500.

And as Harvard Business School notes, there are still myriad questions to be answered about the space tourism market.

But the business reality is that we dont really know if commercial space flight will ultimately be a money maker, how many competitors will fit in the market, or what demand will be for consumers taking off on space vacations after the initial enthusiasm wears off, according to Harvard.

Over the near-term, Virgin Galactic faces two major issues. First, it is essentially a small-cap stock, and investors are showing disdain for such stocks,

Secondly, Virgin Galactic is a roughly $16 stock, and analysts average price target on the name is close to $32. Something probably has to give on that front and in this environment, its much easier for analysts to trim their forecasts than for stocks to double.

Space tourism and transportation have a lot of long-term allure and potential, but for investors who want to commit to Virgin Galactic for the long-haul, better pricing and valuations than today are likely to become available sooner than later.

As of this writing, Todd Shriber did not own any of the aforementioned securities. He has been an InvestorPlace contributor since 2014.

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As a Californian teenager, Julie Felix who has died aged 81 never imagined herself becoming a folk singer, but her guitar became a handy tool for expanding her social life, getting her into Santa Barbaras fancier parties and coffee houses: I ended up at the Unicorn in Hollywood where I sang Spanish songs, Michael Row The Boat Ashore, some Burl Ives. It wasnt serious, but I got free beer.

With long dark hair and mixed ancestry (Latin American on her fathers side, Native American and Welsh on her mothers) she had the perfect beatnik look, and a trek around Europe in the early 60s eventually led her to become a long-term UK resident, ending up with two BBC TV series of her own.

In America, where she returned in the 1980s, her name meant nothing, and the anonymity suited her. The folk revival of the 2000s saw Julie Felix touring Britain again, though she would keep her best-known song Going to the Zoo under wraps unless there were children in the room: I was singing this song in 1967, she would laugh. Ill be singing this song all the way to Heaven. Her unpretentious approach to music would lead to a varied career with plenty of unexpected gems in her catalogue, like these.

Though the Topic and Transatlantic labels were hip to the Soho folk revolution in 1964, the major labels were largely ignorant. Faced with Julie Felixs debut album, her label Decca were initially wondering whether it should be marketed as classical or pop. A time capsule mix of old folk tunes and new, her uplifting and rather naive take on Ian Tysons Someday Soon was a highlight, and it became her first single.

All I want is a good sound system if she had kept her folkie powder dry, Julie Felix could have been launched as an entirely different kind of singer in the 70s. This confident, self-penned chunk of leftfield glam has her daydreaming about holidaying in Spain: I could take my synthesiser and a car full of booze.

For her second Decca album in 1965, Felix had travelled to folk clubs around Britain to find untried writers with fresh material. Written by Devons Dave Evans, who went on to record two fine albums for Village Thing, The Road Makers was written about the Honiton bypass, though it reminded Julie of the destruction of Santa Barbaras rather more exotic avocado orchards. Id hitch hike around Britain, people would put me up on the couch. It was like the dark ages back then outside loos, no fridges! But you miss local colour when you reach the higher echelons, and I wanted to make my contribution to British folk music.

A most peculiar Peggy Seeger song, with a similar finger-clicking minimalist sound to Peggy Lees Fever, its hard to tell if its an askew take on racism (Never trust the Martian race!) or a dig at the possible follies of space travel My cosmic husband died of mumps a hundred years ago, sings the now-centuries old widow at the end. Either way, its a lot of fun, and would have fitted The Muppet Show to a tee.

A decidedly funky version though it is a decidedly British kind of funkiness of the song that is now possibly as associated with Margaret Thatcher as it is Judy Garland. Recorded in 1968, it was floor-friendly enough to have been played out by DJ Martin Green at his legendary Britpop club Smashing.

The song most associated with Julie Felix was this pretty irresistible Tom Paxton childrens song, a regular car singalong for families in the 1960s and 70s. Initially its impact was down to appearances on The Frost Report where Felix had become the resident singer (she had met David Frost in a lift on the way to a launch party for Someday Soon) but it had an afterlife with almost weekly plays on Radio 1s Junior Choice. It was still getting regular plays with unlikely bedfellows like Adam & the Ants Stand and Deliver after Tony Blackburn took over the show in the early 80s.

A Donovan song about a Borstal escapee which was given a terrific, brass-driven workout on her 1968 This World Goes Round and Round album. Coming from a Californian, its everyday Englishness over double eggs, chips and beans they made a solemn vow sounds especially endearing.

In spite of her national fame, Felix never had a hit single in the 60s. Mickie Most, on the other hand with the Animals, Hermans Hermits and Donovan couldnt stop having hits, so when the pair teamed up on his RAK label in 1970, Felix was fast-tracked to Top of the Pops appearances. This gentle guitar and sitar-led Top 30 hit was written by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson, a year after they had formed Hot Chocolate.

Another Donovan song, Snakeskin has the same loose, chunky groove as his Barabajagal, which in turn had borrowed its clothes from Sympathy for the Devil. Following Heaven is Here and a Top 20 hit with a version of Simon & Garfunkels El Condor Pasa, it was an impressive but possibly confusing step forward, and it flopped. That would be the end of Julies brush with the charts.

The 2018 album Rock Me Goddess was released just before Felix turned 80, though youd not know it from her voice, which was a little deeper but otherwise hardly changed by age. A stand-out was this Latin-flavoured hand-clapper, with a chorus in Spanish, which nailed her colours to Labours mast: I still believe in democracy, thats why Im voting for Jeremy.

Felix first met Leonard Cohen on Hydra during a duffle-bag hike around Europe in 1962; they struck up a fast friendship before she moved on to Germany and, eventually, England, but they stayed friends for life. She released this song as a single in 1968, when Cohen was still far better known in Britain as a poet. At David Frosts prompting, the BBC had given her a show, Once More with Felix, which ran for three years at the end of the 60s her guests included Cohen, who made his British TV debut singing Hey Thats No Way to Say Goodbye as a duet with her.

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New Delhi: With the coronavirus pandemic forcing people to stay at home, NASA replugged several of its educational activities, do-it-yourself (DIY) projects and podcasts to keep them occupied as part of its #NASAatHome campaign.

In an interactive Twitter thread Wednesday, NASAs official handle offered to be the window into the universe and asked people what they wanted to see.

The ensuing discussion saw the US space agency responding to the queries and requests of multiple users with podcasts, DIY projects, videos and articles.

On the initiative, Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, said, We want to be sure that every student, educator and lifelong learner has access to the resources and inspiration of NASA to continue their studies and enrich their ongoing journey.

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NASA offers several open educational resources in the form of articles, videos and podcasts.

A podcast called NASA Explorers: Apollo tells stories about the Moon and the astronauts who explore it.

Another podcast titled, Houston, We have a Podcast is on the various manned missions to space and gives details about how the entire process of space travel actually works.

NASAs YouTube channel offers more than 4,000 videos on everything related to space including live views of the Earth from space stations.

It also offers several DIY projects to overcome the boredom of quarantine, especially for children. A project titledApollo Moon capsule craft offers step-by-step instructions to make a paper replica of the Apollo capsule, the spaceflight that first landed humans on the moon.

The #NASAatHome initiative has been lauded by several people on Twitter, with many especially appreciating the interactive nature of their Twitter account.

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Editors note: As an alternative to what you are getting pretty much everywhere else in the media at the moment,Evolution Newsis proud to offer inspiration, pointing to purpose and meaning in life. The profoundest mystery and thus the deepest inspiration is life itself. Discovery Institute Press has just published a greatly expanded edition of the 1984 classic of intelligent design science literature,The Mystery of Lifes Origin. Below is an excerpt adapted from a brand new chapter in the book by distinguished Rice University synthetic organic chemist James Tour.

Organisms have well-defined molecular assemblies, redox potentials across membranes, and metabolic pathways all operating in exquisite states that we call life.

Chemistry, by contrast, is utterly indifferent to whether anything is alive or not. Without a biologically derived entity acting upon them, molecules have never been shown to evolve toward life. Never.

While organisms exploit chemistry for their own ends, chemicals have never been seen to assemble themselves into an organism. Origin-of-life research keeps attempting to make the chemicals needed for life, and then to have those assemble toward something to which they are inherently indifferent. But try as they might, without preexisting life no researchers have ever seen molecules assemble into a living cell, or anything even remotely resembling a living cell. Contrary to the hyperbole of press reports, any synthetic molecularly derived structures that have been touted as being cell-like are in reality far from it. This situation might change in the future, but it is unlikely to change under the current course of research. Scientists have no data to support molecular evolution leading to life. The research community remains clueless.

Many scientists and professors who are outside boutique origin-of- life circles have been led astray by researchers claims and the subsequent press, thinking that far more is known about lifes origin than really is known. This has affected the highest seats in the academy where even some science professors confuse origin of life with biological evolution. Like a muddy prebiotic cesspool, confusion abounds in the academy.

Two-thirds of a century since the 1952 Miller-Urey experiment, where some racemic amino acids were formed from small molecules and an electrical discharge, the world is no closer to generating life from small molecules or any molecules for that matter than it was in 1952. One could argue that origin-of-life research is even more befuddled now than it was in 1952 since more questions have evolved than answers, and the voluminous new data regarding the complexity within a cell makes the target much more daunting than it used to be.

Consider what has occurred in other fields in the past sixty-seven years since Miller-Urey performed their experiments: human space travel, satellite interconnectivity, unlocking DNAs code and its precise genetic manipulation, biomedical imaging, automated peptide and nucleotide synthesis, molecular structure determination, silicon device fabrication, integrated circuits, and the Internet, to name just a few.

By comparison, origin-of-life research has not made any progress whatsoever in addressing the fundamental questions of lifes origin. Two-thirds of a century and all that has been generated are more suggestions on how life might have formed suggestions that really show how life probably did not form. Nothing even resembling a synthetic cellular structure has arisen from its independent components, let alone a living cell. Not even close.

In 1775, the French Academy in Paris refused to entertain any further proposals for perpetual motion machines; the devices just did not work as advertised. No one knew why not the mature science of thermodynamics, which gave us a theoretical account for why the perpetuum mobile schemes failed, lay nearly one hundred years in the future but the machines clearly failed. Today we need a French Academy-like directive toward origin-of-life proposals; for, like perpetual motion machines, such proposals just do not work as advertised. Instead we should explore why scientists have failed to produce life. Clearly life can exist unlike perpetual motion machines, we have the ubiquity of life surrounding us on this planet. But there needs to be a wholly different scientific approach to reveal lifes origin.

This is an appeal to the origin-of-life research community: Step back and consider the claims within the research, the true state of the field, the retarded state of the science relative to other research areas, and the confusion or delusion of the public regarding lifes origin. Many researchers in origin-of-life organic synthesis are superb scientists. However, overly confident assertions, exaggerated and spread by the over-zealous press, have led to gross public misconceptions regarding what is and is not known concerning the beginning of life.

Read the rest inThe Mystery of Lifes Origin: The Continuing Controversy, from Discovery Institute Press.

Photo: Stanley Miller of Miller-Urey fame, by NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

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Fans always wondered about the fate of the seventh Doctor ( Sylvester McCay). As is 1996, TV movies were seen traveling alone. So, whats the fate of his companion. Here Sophie Aldred has an explanation.

Speaking to RadioTimes.com, Aldred revealed that she was approached to help write a book under BBC franchise after the huge success of Doctor Who. The novel was releasedon 6th February 2020. It has a total of 26 chapters.

The reason why Ace separates from the Doctor to become a reclusive millionaire philanthropist. This was shown in an exclusive teaser shot to promote the season on Blue Ray. The root of it, obviously, is the tiny mention that Russell T Davies gave in The Sarah Jane Adventures all those years ago, Aldred explained. Sarah Jane mentions somebody called Dorothy, whos running A Charitable Earth.And it all came from there. So, its all Russells fault!

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Dorothy always believed in Doctor, but things start to go wrong in the 26th season. He is portrayed as easily manipulative, and tension begins to rise. Its like a perfect childhood dream that parents can do no wrong, but as we grow, we start to realize the truth. And life suddenly turns upside-down. This same happened with Ace.

She loves Doctor, and she wants to do good as Dorothy in a Charitable Earth. But she suffers from heartbreak. She has lost the world of time and space travel, so she is in a state of complete desolation.

The doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker, co-operate in investigating a mysterious satellite with new companions Ryan, Graham, and Yaz. She didnt reveal whether Doctor and Acewill patch up, but a complicated relationship will definitely come out.

Doctor Who in 1989 left Ace up in the air. It will be revealed whether the Doctor gets back and how he managed to reach there. Also, it is explaining what her reaction is, and all the emotional trauma that she goes through is well captured in the novel.

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ELY A local astronomers group is celebrating the major yet unheralded roles played by Iowas three state universities in the history of astronomy and space travel in connection with the Apollo 13 50-year anniversary.

During the Apollo 13 mission, which was April 11 to 17, 1970, an explosion on board the spacecraft left the fate of three astronauts unknown for seven days as people around the world feared they may never make it back to earth.

Historian David V. Wendell, curator of an exhibit called Our Finest Hours: Apollo XIII and Iowas Universities in Space Exploration, had planned an event with panel discussion on the date of the launch April 11 at the astronomical research complex operated by the Cedar Amateur Astronomers, 1365 Ivanhoe Road, in rural Ely. The COVID-19 crisis has put the event in doubt, as some of his planned speakers backed out.

Wendell still hoped to pay tribute to Iowas space travel efforts in conjunction with the anniversary.

Perhaps the virus, therefore, gives us a deeper insight into the psyche of what it was like to be on that fateful flight not knowing if one would survive or not, Wendell said. Just as today, on Earth, we wonder in the back of our mind if we will make it safely through a daunting ordeal, they, too, faced this dilemma of uncertainty, but came through successfully.

Wendell highlighted the contributions of three scholars:

Gurnett, professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of Iowa, was a protege of James Van Allen, the UI professor who designed and built the experimental equipment aboard Explorer 1, Americas first man-made satellite to circle the Earth. Gurnett went on to assist and engineer experiments on board Injun 1, Americas first satellite designed by a college, and to create the instruments aboard the Voyager Spacecraft, the first man-made object to fly out of the solar system and into interstellar space.

The event also was to celebrate Gurnetts 80th birthday on April 11.

Willson, professor emeritus of astronomy at Iowa State University, has been one of the nations leading experts in variable star research in this century and the latter half of the last. Variable stars are those that vary in intensity. She has used the worlds most advanced telescopes, including Hubble, to identify planets in orbit around stars far distant from our solar system.

Morgan, chairwoman of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Northern Iowa, is recognized as one of the states leading authorities on stellar pulsation in an effort to understand how stars evolve and its implication for the future of our planet, as well as others like it in the universe.

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What does wealth at that scale even mean? For one thing, obviously, it means you can buy whatever you want anything money can buy. A $65 million private jet? No problem. A $165 million estate in Beverly Hills? Go for it. But consumer goods, even the most luxurious of luxury consumer goods, cant adequately convey the significance of this much money.

More than buying power, its a form of social power essentially, the ability to command the labor of other human beings. A person living on Seattles minimum wage would find it a stretch to enlist the labor of, say, a massage therapist for the occasional hour. A well-off homeowner, on the other hand, can set in motion a small crew of skilled workers to remodel a kitchen or build a deck. Bezos, with his billions, is in another league altogether. He can call into existence vast armies of human beings to do, within the broad bounds of the law and what people are willing to do for pay, whatever he desires. He could, if he wanted, pay thousands of workers to try to dig a hole through the Earth to China, and when they couldnt dig any further, he could pay them to fill it all in again.

In fact, Bezos has decided to journey in the opposite direction not to the center of the Earth, but outward, into space. Blue Origin, the space flight enterprise funded entirely from his personal fortune, is headquartered in Kent, right here in King County. In 2018, just a few days before Amazon took the gloves off to kill a modest Seattle tax on big business, Bezos explained in an interview: The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel. That is basically it. The Twitterverse latched on to this remark and was pleased to suggest some other uses for Bezoss billions. It was easy to hear in his words a kind of flippancy, the out-of-touch attitude of a man so unimaginably rich that not merely the world, but the universe, has become his playground.

But theres more to the story, as becomes clear if you actually listen to the interview, or even better, read Franklin Foers excellent piece on Bezos that appeared in The Atlantic last fall. For one thing, Bezos has a lifelong obsession with space travel. As a child he devoured science fiction, and he was and is a total Star Trek nerd. As a teenager he read a book by the physicist Gerard K. ONeill, who imagined human civilization expanding into space, not by colonizing other planets, but by constructing enormous habitats to float between the Earth and the moon, spinning to simulate gravity. Above all else, Blue Origin is about building the infrastructure that will allow a new generation of entrepreneurs to realize that vision.

This all may still sound frivolous. But Bezos is not merely the exceptional geek who, entertaining the idle thought, Whoa, wouldnt it be cool if , can actually make a serious go at whatever comes out of his mouth next. In fact, he ardently believes that we must go to space on a mission to save Earth.

Bezos believes we are running out of room, resources and energy on our home planet. In 2016, speaking at Seattles Museum of Flight, he explained: We need to go into space if we want to continue to have a growing civilization. If you take baseline energy usage on Earth and compound it at just 3% a year for less than 500 years, you have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells. Thats just not going to happen. Without new room to grow, humanity faces a grim future of stasis, rationing, stagnation. But if we can mine the moon and the asteroids and build ourselves some ONeill cylinders, the Earth can be salvaged and turned into a paradise or, more prosaically, end up zoned residential and light industry. Eventually our solar system could support a trillion humans, with a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts.

Lets take a moment to appreciate what is admirable in all this. When it comes to billionaires peering anxiously into the crystal ball of the future and making plans, things could be much worse. Bezos is not investing in a palatial underground bunker, or scheming to upload his consciousness to the cloud, or preparing some other personal escape from the coming apocalypse. He has a vision that includes the rest of us, too, still in our flesh-and-blood forms, enjoying Maui on its best day, all year long. Hes genuinely worried about humanitys future, he has a plan and hes doing his best to execute it.

Theres something else to appreciate, too. Jeff Bezos is a man whose day job is basically to stoke the fires of global consumerism, spurring on the devastation of the Earth in the name of profit (sorry, the customer). So its nice to hear him acknowledge that we have a problem. Bezoss choice of 3% sounds suspiciously like whats often considered the ideal growth rate for a developed capitalist economy. Sure, hes talking about energy, and you might argue that long before we run out of that, well run out of other things untapped markets, debt-fueled demand, docile workers. But you dont have to agree precisely with Bezoss analysis of the problem, or buy into his solution, to appreciate that hes grappling with a question many of his peers would prefer to avoid altogether: Jeff thinks we cant keep this up much longer unless we go to space. Whats your plan?

And this brings us to the limits of the Bezos vision. For him, its space or bust. He is apparently unable to imagine the continuing progress of science and technology, or the flourishing of art and culture, on any basis other than an ever-expanding whirlwind of production, distribution and consumption, resource extraction and the endless piling up of material wealth. Its notable that in fishing for exemplars of creative genius, Bezos reached back centuries, to times when the Earth supported a fraction of todays population. Maybe, just maybe, a societys artistic and scientific achievements, its capacity for ingenuity and originality, dont have all that much to do with the sheer quantity of human souls. Maybe what we need most today is to find a way to live that doesnt systematically snuff out, misdirect or neglect the human potential of the great mass of people who already exist.

Im not saying that our grandchildrens grandchildren will never live in great rotating cylinders filled with elk, elevated trains and replicas of medieval cities. I was never a Bezos-level nerd, but my adolescence contained its share of Carl Sagan and wormholes and gazing up at the stars. I have nothing against mining asteroids. I just think that when humanity does expand into space, it will be a collective endeavor, filled with purpose and adventure, not something were driven to do because the imperative of 3% GDP growth is coming up behind us like the yawning jaws of a bear. Lets climb that tree because we want to see the view.

For now, though, its a billionaires world. We can keep fighting to wrest away some of their wealth in taxes, and we can pressure them to make better choices. But in large measure, Jeff Bezos and his ilk get to decide what our problems are and what solutions deserve attention, labor and resources. But lets finish on the bright side. Space tourism may soon be a thing this year, in fact and the man behind it has a track record of customer obsession and cutting costs. Start saving those quarters!

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While people now panics over a deadly virus, space experts are now making marvelous space findings that you would love to see! Within this week, another asteroid might hit planet Earth as NASA identified this as another detected'Near-Earth Object'or NEO that is possibly taller than the whole building of Empire State in New York! Meanwhile, a space study about a low-mass planet candidate now found that has Earth-like features called 'Super-Earth'!

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For those people out there that love the information about NEOs, here comes another potential asteroid that might hit Earth soon. According toUK Daily Express, an asteroid identified as Asteroid 2012 XA133 with a size of 390m or meters taller than the Empire State Building is expected to be seen in Earth skies on Friday, Mar. 27.

As National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA reported on Sunday, Mar. 22, the agency is now tracking the possibility of collision between the asteroid and the planet. Luckily, for now, NASA found no evidence that it will crash on Earth but might just swing by on the planet. Here comes the interesting part, though.

Asteroid 2012 XA133 is now fast-approaching compared to when it was identified eight years ago. This space rock was about 4.1 million miles or 6.66 million km from the Earth-- if you compare it to the distance of the planet from the Sun, which is about 93 million miles or 149.6 million km.

As clarified by the agency, there are a lot of NEOs that surrounds planet Earth. Most of them do not have any impact on the planet, and only some are reported to have the possibility of having a collision with Earth.

"Some asteroids and comets follow orbital paths that take them much closer to the Sun and therefore Earth - than usual-- just like Asteroid XA133," said NASA. "In fact, as best as we can tell, no large object is likely to strike the Earth any time in the next several hundred years."

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Arecent studyfrom space experts Mario Damasso and colleagues, are now giving more clarity on Earth-like planets called'Super-Earth'lurking in deep space. According to the research study led by Damasso, a low-mass planet candidate has been seen behind the nearest star from the Sun called Proxima Centauri. It has a distance of 1.5 AU and might be orbiting near the star.

Every 5.2 years, the Super-Earth was seen orbiting near Proxima Centauri, and recently, the potential planet did it again. Researchers suggest that this Super-Earth could have a higher mass than planet Earth but can't exceed the masses of bigger planets like Uranus and Neptune.

Once the findings are proven to be accurate, experts said that it could be one of the highlights in space for the year 2020 since there are still questions regarding the impact and how Super-Earth is born in space.

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At the center of almost every galaxy in the universe is a supermassive black hole gobbling up incredible amounts of matter, and belching out incredible amounts of radiation. The biggest and hungriest of these gobblers called quasars (or quasi-stellar objects, because they look deceptively like stars when seen through most telescopes) are some of the most energetic objects in the universe.

As infalling matter swirls around the quasar's maw at near-light-speed, that matter heats up and flies outward, propelled by the incredible force of its own radiation. All that intergalactic indigestion makes a quasar an awesome sight, capable of shining a thousand times brighter than a galaxy of 100 billion stars. However, a series of new papers suggests, the very same radiation that puts quasars on our maps of the universe may be devastating the galaxies that host the insatiable objects.

In six studies published March 16 in a special edition of The Astrophysical Journal supplemental series, astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to spy on 13 quasar outflows that is, gusts of high-speed radiation pouring out of distant quasars. By observing the outflows over several years and in many wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum, the team found that the wind and gas gushing out of a quasar can travel at more than 40 million mph (64 million km/h) and reach billions of degrees in temperature.

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One outflow the team studied accelerated from nearly 43 million mph (69 million km/h) to roughly 46 million mph (74 million km/h) over a three-year period the fastest-accelerating wind ever detected in space.

This hot, fast gas is capable of causing incredible damage to a quasar's host galaxy, the researchers found, rampaging through the galaxy's disk like a tsunami and blasting potential star-forming material deep into space. In a single year, one quasar outflow can push hundreds of suns-worth of matter into intergalactic space, the researchers found, creating a stunning fireworks display while preventing new stars from forming.

These findings could help answer a long-standing conundrum about our universe: Why do large galaxies seem to stop growing after reaching a certain mass? When the team plugged their new quasar outflow data into models of galaxy formation, they found that the gales of radiation were capable of stunting the birth of new stars in large galaxies.

"Theoreticians and observers have known for decades that there is some physical process that shuts off star formation in massive galaxies, but the nature of that process has been a mystery," Jeremiah P. Ostriker, an astrophysicist at Columbia University in New York and Princeton University in New Jersey not involved in the study, said in a statement. "Putting the observed outflows into our simulations solves these outstanding problems in galactic evolution."

Further study of these mighty outflows, which the researchers believe will only accelerate as their quasars suck in more material, could fill in more details about how the universe's most energetic objects make (and break) entire galaxies.

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We could all use some adventure during these difficult times, and thats where Kanopy steps in. The online streaming service is an educational platform of sorts, with a focus on documentaries, education, and indie cinema. Compared to other streaming services, Kanopy puts more of a focus on the enrichment and fulfillment of knowledge and culture. It features a variety of subjects and categories, from science to history to LGBTQ culture and technology. Best of all, its completely free for those who have a library card or university credentials.

There is much to discover on Kanopy, but for those new to the platform, here are a few of the better films to look out for.

Life has a way of changing plans, and for Carmin, those plans change drastically. Originally heading to the American Mainland to be with her mom, a sudden change of events leaves her on the island with her strict, conservative grandmother. Now living in the mountainous region of Barranquitas, Carmin learns many lessons in the absence of a normal teenage life.

There are not many coming of age stories that come from Latin America, let alone Puerto Rico. Director Ar Manuel Cruz and screenwriter Kisha Tikina Burgos display a sharp, conflicting drama of a woman coming into terms of what is happening to her, lead by an unflinching performance in actress Miranda Purcell. Before A Rooster Crows: A Puerto Rican Coming of Age Storyis a familiar, yet refreshing story , set within the island of Puerto Rico.

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War never changes, but how it is fought always changes. In the secrecy of special forces warfare, a top-secret drone operation unfolds in Kenya. Colonel Katherine Powell leads an operation to stop an incredibly dangerous terrorist network deep within the heart of the country. To do so, drones are at the forefront, providing lethal surgical strikes, but also putting civilians at risk. When a 9-year-old girl enters the area of operation, an international dispute will be set off, creating a calamity of moral, political, and personal conflict. Helen Mirren leads this sharp military thriller alongside Aaron Paul and the late great Alan Rickman. Through their talents, Eye In The Sky provides a haunting but realistic depiction of the new age of modern warfare, along with the toll it takes on both military pilots and innocent civilians.

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Its a high-profile heist, but not where youd expect. Recently laid off from his job, Jimmy Logan falls on hard times. With money tight and no other options, a trip to the bar with his brother helps Clyde, but a fight with a NASCAR-team owner sees his car torched. Looking for payback, and a big payout, Jimmy turns to Clyde and assembles a rag-tag team of rebellious professionals to infiltrate the Charlotte Motor Speedway for one of the strangest heists ever attempted. Up-and-coming actor Adam Driver stars in this wildly eclectic heist film from director Steven Soderbergh. Alongside Channing Tatum and Seth MacFarlane, Logan Lucky is eclectic and highly entertaining heist comedy delivers the thrills, wits, and cheers that one would expect from the director of the Oceans franchise.

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From the The Magnificent Seven to The Mandalorian, the influences and impacts of 1954s Seven Samurai are immense. Regarded as one of the most thrilling and sweeping epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the tale of a 16th-century village, whose inhabitants suffer from the intimidation of ruthless bandits. With no one else to turn to, the villagers plea with a group of aimless Samurai to pick up their swords and defend the village.Seven Samurai was directed by Akira Kurosawa, whose film style was extraordinarily ahead of its time. This three-hour epic paved the way for hundreds of stories in pop culture as it weaves the themes of honor, hope, heroism, and sacrifice in the face of great injustice.

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The year is 1959 and it is the height of the Cold War. There is little difference between a nuclear missile and a manned rocket, and the Russians have put their first man into space. Space is soon becoming a new arena to which to wage a world war. Great Britain launched its first manned mission to space, but the capsule malfunctions and the astronaut is left to cope with the effects of low oxygen. Its a dangerous race against time as the oxygen runs out.

This Cold War thriller was nominated for Best Narrative at Venice Film Week and won the award for Best Sci-Fi Film at the American Movie Awards. Capsule is a fictional, but mesmerizing, take on the early days of space travel and the looming threat of The Cold War.

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In strange land of fantasy and nature, a lone automaton girl pairs with a fierce tortoise as a grave threat looms over them. A sinister mechanized army stands before them, ready to destroy all in its path. Hope for the future lies in securing an ancient, legendary relic that can defeat the army and save the creatures of their homeworld. With each other and a band of reluctant outlaws hope for the future lies in courage. Yamasong March of Hollows uses a combination of animation and modern puppetry to tell its fantastical tale across its wondrous world. Yamasong March of Hollows features an incredibly talented voice cast, too, including Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Cullen, George Takei, Nathan Fillion, and Abigail Breslin, among others.

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Loss and grief are never easy, but comfort and hope can be found in the unlikeliest of places. Michael Kingsley is a recently retired businessman, and as he enjoys his newfound, workless life, he comes across his granddaughter and tells her a story of his friendship with an orphaned pelican named Mister Percival. Storm Boy is based on the novel of the same name by author Colin Thiel, and the movie is powered by the performance of Geoffery Rush. The story and its themes of grief, loss, and unconditional love have been hallmarks of the book, and have given readers valuable lessons. In addition to releasing this newest film adaptation, Storm Boy has recently been adapted into a video game for modern consoles and systems by Blowfish Studios.

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It is the middle of the night and darkness envelopes the road. When a recently-divorced mother and her headstrong daughter venture out into the night on an emergency trip, tragedy strike in the form of a collision. While they are fine, their vehicle is disabled. Suddenly, a strange, mysterious creature stalks them in the dark. With only the interior of their car to defend themselves, mother and daughter cling to survival against this strange and unknown menace. The Monster evokes a kind of old-fashioned horror that plays into childhood fears with a sense of entertaining uneasiness and sharp simplicity. The Monster is driven by sharp directing and pacing from filmmaker Bryan Bertino, who wrote and directed 2008s The Strangers.

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Quiet, secluded Adam spends his life as a college lecturer with a troubled personal life. His relationship with his current companion is ending and his life feels unfulfilled. Suddenly, when watching an older film at the recommendation of one of his students, Adam spots an actor who looks nearly identical to him. Adam tracks the actor down and begins to engage in a dangerous and twisted scheme of madness and manipulation. Enemy is a surreal psychological thriller of identity and personality. Jake Gyllenhaal gives a cunning and uneasy performance, guided by visionary director Dennis Villeneuve, whose works include Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and the upcoming sci-fi epic, Dune.

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Its no longer a question of whether were going to Mars, but when. By the time we reach a second planet probably in the 2030s well probably have a base or two on the moon as well. But will people ever live beyond Earth permanently?

Hazards abound on the red planet, a world that is colder and drier than Antarctica and without the luxury of breathable air. Andy Weir provides an excellent picture of the struggle to survive in his novel The Martian. Kim Stanley Robinson takes a deeper dive with his Mars trilogy. The series follows the first 100 settlers, a hand-picked crew of scientists and engineers who gradually transform the climate. There is plenty of engineering and biology, but Robinson broadens into philosophy when he explores how some settlers want to keep Mars pure and red, while others view the life that greens the planet as a gift from humanity. And alternative history is just around the corner when another wave of colonists arrive, dreaming of breaking away from planet Earth.

Women may require fewer calories, reducing kilograms and cost for any mission launching from Earth, but governments have proved unwilling to let them take the lead. Martha Ackmanns The Mercury 13 tells the story of the women Nasa trained as part of the Mercury programme in the 1960s, and how the US president Lyndon Johnson denied them the opportunity to fly. It wasnt until 1983 that Sally Ride became the first US female astronaut in space, and the sexist culture at Nasa is the backdrop for To Space and Back, a book for younger readers that is as informative as it is aspirational. She explains what its like to eat, sleep, bathe or use the toilet in zero gravity subjects that Mary Roach expands on in her lighthearted study of living in space, Packing for Mars. Sex, in particular, is fraught with difficulties in zero gravity, where Newtons third law can make action and reaction a messy affair.

Mars may be cold and dry, but a gravitational field 38% as strong as Earths may be enough to support growth and development in humans. Robert Zubrin provides a blueprint for settling the red planet in The Case for Mars, laying out how we can get there, establish camps and harvest energy, oxygen and food from the materials we find. He ventures further in The Case for Space, where he outlines the opportunities for mining in the asteroid belt and beyond. Gravity on the frigid moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune is likely to be too weak to support humans. But perhaps the next century will find us using artificial gravity to live throughout the solar system. In 1977, Gerald ONeill described in The High Frontier how the massive rotating spheres this would require are surprisingly straightforward to build.

Our dreams of voyaging in space are even older than that. Jules Vernes 1865 adventure story From the Earth to the Moon is eerily prescient. More than a century before Apollo 11, Verne imagines a giant cannon built in Florida with great controversy and at great expense, which launches three men in a capsule. They fire retrorockets to land on the moon and eventually return to splash down in the Pacific Ocean. The next few centuries may see us travel to Mars and beyond, but human explorers will find that writers have already planted the flag of the imagination on all these new horizons.

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It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration... than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

As CEO of The Planetary Society, I would like to share information about how the Society is responding to the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world. Our response focuses on two important priorities:

In making decisions about how the Societys programs and activities proceed, we are above all else guided by the advice of medical and public health professionals.

Our efforts to inspire people around the world with the passion, beauty, and joythe PB&Jof space exploration are more important than ever. Space exploration is an inherently optimistic enterprise that unites science with adventure and promises a better future for all humankind. Thats a welcome message of hope for everyone right now.

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Going forward, we will continue to provide you, our members and supporters, with the tools to share the PB&J with others through our weekly e-newsletter, The Downlink.

And if you are looking for a real space party, you should check out the Yuris Night 2020 Global Webcast coming up on April 11.

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Effective last week, all Planetary Society public events, including events involving our volunteers, have been canceled or postponed. Likewise, all business travel by staff, volunteers, or board members has been suspended.

It also bears mention that, to continue our work during this time of crisis, we will also need to rely on generous members and supporters like you to support our efforts financially. If you are in a position to be able to provide support during this time, we will be deeply appreciative.

Together, we are going to get through this global crisis. Our collective actions to inhibit the spread of COVID-19 will slow the progress of the disease and save lives. To borrow some words from one of our founders, Carl Sagan, this unprecedented challenge underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another. Please take precautions to keep yourself, your family, and community safe.

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MCU is entering into phase 4, and this means we are going to have a lot of awesome movies. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is also one of them. With the way Avengers End game ended, we can expect a lot of new things from this movie. We will have these people gearing up and traveling across planets just to save the galaxy. We will see more about the movie in this article.

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The movie is confirmed, but the release date is not. According to the plan, the filming should have started in May 2020. The film might be released somewhere in the year 2022. The date will be confirmed soon.

Chris Pratt will be back as Star-Lord, Dave Bautista will be Drax, and almost all the guardians will be back. We will have Karen Gillan playing Nebula. The Groot and Rocket will also be back playing their cute roles. This will be done by Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper. We do not know if Zoe Saldana will be back as Gamora. There are chances that Chris Hemsworth makes an appearance in this film.

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Gamora, we saw in the End game, is not the actual present Gamora. She had come from the past and did not remember being with the Guardians at all. This movie might focus on that too. Since Thor left with the Guardians at the end of the End Game, he might come back.

This time, there will be a lot of space journey to fight a new anti-hero and save that planet. We do not know much about any of this as the filming has not started yet. An official trailer will also come out at the end of 2021. So the answers to what happens to Gamora? Will there be space travel? Will we have a new guardian added to the team? will all come out soon.

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All forms of air travel are included in the aerospace industry. Everything from planes used by commercial airlines to spacecraft designed for travel outside the comforts of our atmosphere. If it flies, it is a product of the aerospace industry. As youd probably imagine, pinpoint accuracy and razor-sharp precision are vital when designing machines that will take to the skies.

Thats why it is no surprise really that CNC or computer numericalcontrol, is used so extensively in this field.

As aircraft in its many forms moves at high speeds and needs to be asdurable and safe as possible, specialized industrial-standard CNCmanufacturing setups are used. There is a lot of money required tofund the various components and parts of aircraft. As such, only the wealthiestbusinesses around the world can invest in the automation required to buildthese forms of transportation.

Accuracy is important in aircraft construction. Whether it is fighterjets, cargo planes, passenger airlines. The accuracy required extends to allparts of the aircraft production process. That includes everything from theouter shell of the innermost parts. CNC machining can be integral tomanufacturing the necessary tools accurately and at speed to ensure each partof the plane functions properly.

For instance, the engine inside a plane needs to be able to keep the planein the air for the duration of its flight, which means it needs to be able touse and process fuel. Some of the most seemingly insignificant pieces that arecrucial to the running of an engine can be made using CNC machining.

Consider also the cockpit. CNC machining could be used to create all thesmall and connected components that form the computer navigational system thathelps the plane to get from a to b. Moving to the exterior of the plane, vitalparts like the wings can be finetuned and tweaked with CNC machining to ensurethey move through the air efficiently and safely.

What organizations do you think of when you think of space travel? NASAand Space-X probably fall quickly off your tongue. It makes sense as thesecompanies are responsible for designing and manufacturing some of the mostpowerful and technologically advanced rockets and spacecraft to allow formanned and unmanned missions across our solar system.

To be able to do that, CNC machining has played an important role in thedesigning, planning and building of various parts of all kinds of rockets andother similar crafts. From the smallest and most minute fixtures and componentsto the body design of rockets.

Spacecraft needs to be built to last and withstand life in space forlong periods, ranging from a few weeks to many years. Because of this, thatgolden word accuracy comes in to play again in this part of the industry. Notonly do all the parts need to work well, but they need to ensure the spacecraftoperate safely, to protect not just the crew (if there is one) but theexpensive equipment on board as well as the craft itself.

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Video Freeman Dyson, the eminent British-American physicist and mathematician best known for his theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics, died today. He was 96.

His death was announced by his daughter Mia Dyson via Maine public television and the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) the top research hub in Princeton, New Jersey, once home to Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and other giants of science and technology.

Mia said her father accidentally fell on Wednesday during one of his regular visits to his office at the IAS, where he had worked from 1953 until 1994. He died from his injuries at a hospital on Friday morning.

No life is more entangled with the onstitute and impossible to capture architect of modern particle physics, free-range mathematician, advocate of space travel, astrobiology and disarmament, futurist, eternal graduate student, rebel to many preconceived ideas including his own, thoughtful essayist, all the time a wise observer of the human scene, said Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Director and Leon Levy Professor at the IAS. His secret was simply saying 'yes' to everything in life, till the very end.

Dyson was born on December 15, 1923 in Berkshire, England, and read mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, aged 17. During the Second World War, he was pulled from academia to work as a scientist helping Blighty's Royal Air Force target German aircraft. After the war, he returned to Cambridge to complete his degree.

In 1947, he moved to the United States to obtain a PhD at Cornell University, studying alongside Hans Bethe, one of the pioneering nuclear physicists who played a crucial role in America's top-secret atom-bomb-building lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

"I came to Cornell to work with Hans Bethe, who was one of the greatest physicists in the world," Dyson said in a wide-ranging interview in 2008.

"He was right there at Cornell. He had been second-in-command at Los Alamos. It was just an ideal situation. In addition to Hans Bethe, there were many other Los Alamos veterans, who were then only about thirty years old, Feynman, and Phil Morrison, and Bob Wilson. Bob Wilson was chief of experimental physics, Bethe was chief of theoretical physics, and Phil Morrison was actually the fellow who carried the plutonium core to Tinian for the Nagasaki attack, so he was deeply involved in the business. Phil Morrison also visited Hiroshima very soon after it was destroyed.

"So there were those three people who were leading lights, who had been deeply involved at Los Alamos. I learned everything right from the horse's mouth."

And with that knowledge, Dyson soon disapproved of nations stockpiling nuclear weapons, noting:

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Dyson applied his mathematical wizardry in many areas in science, from particle physics and astrophysics, to space travel, biology, and tackling climate change sans hysteria. He earned a ton of awards, almost too many to list, and was a professor emeritus at Princeton, and a member of various scientific organizations.

His biggest contribution, in this vulture's mind, was uniting mathematical formulations describing interactions of subatomic particles with the squiggly lines of Feynman diagrams. He also came up the additive number theory technique dubbed Dyson's transform, star-harvesting Dyson spheres that featured in Star Trek, and more.

"You could tell that the world was a beautiful place through his eyes, and somehow understanding all the formulas and the natural laws and all the mysteries he had plumbed through the study of physics, that is only grew more and more beautiful, the more he understood," Mia Dyson said today.

Dyson leaves behind his wife of 64 years, Imme, and six children.

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Picture your ideal vacation destination.

If youre imagining the dark and cold vacuum of space, then Elon Musks SpaceX tourism is just for you!

Ah yes, Elon Musk, the guy known for laughing at a deer at the bottom of a swimming pool and for making a meme of his Tesla Cybertruck reveal when a demonstrator accidentally broke the trucks unbreakable windows.

Oh, and he founded his own NASA.

Jokes aside, Musks space exploration company, SpaceX, could be the saving grace for astronomy during a quiet time of NASA launches. SpaceX recently signed a deal with Space Adventures to make the stars above us the newest tourist hot spot; it plans to send four people in a spaceship as early as the end of next year.

Late 2021 may sound like an optimistic timeline, but it is actually a realistic one. Space Adventures has already run eight tourism trips to the International Space Station, and Musk started what CNN called the new Space Age when he flew a Tesla Roadster near Mars in the worlds most powerful rocket in 2018.

NASA apparently recognized SpaceXs potential as well, having given $2.6 billion in 2014 for the development of the Crew Dragon, the spacecraft that will be used to propel tourists into space.

Although tourism is only an afterthought next to SpaceXs endgame of Mars colonization, the commercialization of space travel could be what scientists need to spur the next Space Race. Space travel is expensive and time-intensive, and it can seem frivolous to invest in when there are more immediate concerns closer to home here on Earth.

Science needs a push to put stakes in space exploration. After all, a push is what put a man on the moon.

The U.S. government believed it was impractical to grant the $152 billion that was spent on the moon landing until Russias launch of the Sputnik satellite upped the pressure.

SpaceX changes the game by opening up possibilities for space travel that are not solely reliant on the government; its founded by a car company CEO and is recruiting non-astronaut civilians. Just as the U.S. broke grounds in research in the face of competition from Russia, commercialized space travel could prompt competition, resulting in reduced costs, increased efficiency, faster timelines and groundbreaking expeditions.

Space tourism will probably remain exclusive to the wealthy, but it could reignite global interest in astronomy and motivate trailblazing research into space exploration.

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The 2018 movie A.I. Rising explores how machines could fulfil desires and support humans during space travel. Lo and behold, it might contain the solution to problems related to space exploration. Astronauts, despite their rigorous training, remain humans with needs. For space exploration and colonisation to succeed, we need to overcome taboos, consider human needs and desires and provide concrete, realistic solutions based on science rather than conventional morality.

Can humans thrive for prolonged periods of time in small groups and in closed, isolated environments? Can humans contend with limited possibilities of relationships, intimacy and sexuality? Sex tech might have the answer. As researchers exploring human-machine erotic interactions, we are interested in their implications and potential applications for human wellbeing even beyond our home planet.

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Space exploration and colonisation is one of humanitys greatest endeavours, but it comes with challenges. One of them is to make the space journey human-compatible, that is, physically and psychologically viable. Given that intimacy and sexuality are basic needs, they become central issues for human-space compatibility.

How will humans have sex in space? Can we propagate the species beyond Earth? What will intimate relationships look like aboard spaceships and settlements? As of now, Nasa and other space agencies have denied that any sexual activity has ever occurred during a space mission. Either sex in space hasnt happened, or no one is talking about it. Nonetheless, imminent prolonged human missions to the moon and Mars raise concerns regarding the future of intimacy and sexuality in space.

Mystic Mountain, a pillar of gas and dust standing at three-light-years tall, bursting with jets of gas flom fledgling stars buried within, was captured by Nasa's Hubble Space Telelscope in February 2010

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The first ever selfie taken on an alien planet, captured by Nasa's Curiosity Rover in the early days of its mission to explore Mars in 2012

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Death of a star: This image from Nasa's Chandra X-ray telescope shows the supernova of Tycho, a star in our Milky Way galaxy

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Arrokoth, the most distant object ever explored, pictured here on 1 January 2019 by a camera on Nasa's New Horizons spaceraft at a distance of 4.1 billion miles from Earth

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An image of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy seen in infrared light by the Herschel Space Observatory in January 2012. Regions of space such as this are where new stars are born from a mixture of elements and cosmic dust

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The first ever image of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon telescope, as part of a global collaboration involving Nasa, and released on 10 April 2019. The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides about 54 million light-years from Earth

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Pluto, as pictured by Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft as it flew over the dwarf planet for the first time ever in July 2015

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A coronal mass ejection as seen by the Chandra Observatory in 2019. This is the first time that Chandra has detected this phenomenon from a star other than the Sun

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Dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks running downhill on the surface Mars were believed to be evidence of contemporary flowing water. It has since been suggested that they may instead be formed by flowing sand

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Morning Aurora: Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph of the green lights of the aurora from the International Space Station in October 2015

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Mystic Mountain, a pillar of gas and dust standing at three-light-years tall, bursting with jets of gas flom fledgling stars buried within, was captured by Nasa's Hubble Space Telelscope in February 2010

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The first ever selfie taken on an alien planet, captured by Nasa's Curiosity Rover in the early days of its mission to explore Mars in 2012

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Death of a star: This image from Nasa's Chandra X-ray telescope shows the supernova of Tycho, a star in our Milky Way galaxy

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Arrokoth, the most distant object ever explored, pictured here on 1 January 2019 by a camera on Nasa's New Horizons spaceraft at a distance of 4.1 billion miles from Earth

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An image of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy seen in infrared light by the Herschel Space Observatory in January 2012. Regions of space such as this are where new stars are born from a mixture of elements and cosmic dust

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The first ever image of a black hole, captured by the Event Horizon telescope, as part of a global collaboration involving Nasa, and released on 10 April 2019. The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides about 54 million light-years from Earth

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Pluto, as pictured by Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft as it flew over the dwarf planet for the first time ever in July 2015

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A coronal mass ejection as seen by the Chandra Observatory in 2019. This is the first time that Chandra has detected this phenomenon from a star other than the Sun

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Dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks running downhill on the surface Mars were believed to be evidence of contemporary flowing water. It has since been suggested that they may instead be formed by flowing sand

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Morning Aurora: Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photograph of the green lights of the aurora from the International Space Station in October 2015

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One important concern is that space exploration and colonisation will limit peoples opportunities for relationships, intimacy and sexuality for long periods of time. In the very near future, human missions will only include small crews and settlements. Fewer people mean fewer opportunities for intimacy making it difficult to find partners to connect with and potentially increasing tension between crew members. For instance, it might be difficult to find partners that fit our personality, preferences and sexual orientation. And when a relationship ends, people are stuck on a ship with an ex-partner possibly impairing a crews mood and the teamwork necessary to survive in dangerous environments.

While some people might be able to withstand a policy of total abstinence, it might be detrimental to the physical and mental health of others especially as larger groups venture into space. Yet Nasa seems afraid of tackling issues of intimacy and sexuality in space. In 2008, Bill Jeffs, spokesperson for Nasas Johnson Space Center in Houston, said: We dont study sexuality in space, and we dont have any studies ongoing with that. If thats your specific topic, theres nothing to discuss.

Might human-machine sex be a step too far in our relationship with technology? (Getty)

Given what we know about human sexuality, this position seems irresponsible. It prevents research from examining basic questions about sexual health and wellbeing in space. For instance, how do we deal with hygiene and the messiness of human sex in zero gravity? How will we maintain a crews psychological wellbeing if people must endure long periods lacking in erotic stimulation and affection? Is imposed abstinence a reasonable solution, based on empirical evidence?

One solution could be to make erotic technologies available to crews and settlers in space. This could include sex toys any object used for sexual enhancement or stimulation which could be used for sexual pleasure and gratification. But sex toys do not address the social dimensions of human erotic needs. This is where erobots come in.

The term erobots characterises all virtual, embodied and augmented artificial erotic agents and the technologies that produce them. Examples include sex robots, erotic chatbots and virtual or augmented partners. Erobotics is the emerging transdisciplinary research studying human-erobots interactions and related phenomena. Unlike previous technologies, erobots offer the opportunity of intimate relations with artificial agents tailored to the needs of their users. Erobotic technologies polarise public and academic discourses: some denounce them as promoting harmful norms, while others defend their potential benefits and health, education and research applications.

Erobots represent a practical solution to tackle the inhuman conditions of space exploration and colonisation. Moreover, erobotics could enable us to approach questions of intimacy and sexuality in space from scientific, relational and technological perspectives. Erobots could provide companionship and sexual pleasure to crew members and settlers. Beyond the capabilities of sex toys, erobots can incorporate social dimensions into erotic experiences. They could help with loneliness and the inevitable anxieties borne out of solitude. They could act as surrogate romantic partners, provide sexual outlets and reduce risks associated with human sex.

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Erobots could also provide intimacy and emotional support. And finally, erobots sensors and interactive capabilities could help monitor astronauts physiological and psychological health acting as a complement to daily medical exams. Erobots can take many forms and be made of light material. They can manifest through virtual or augmented reality and be combined with sex toys to provide interactive and immersive erotic experiences. The same technology could also be employed to enact erotic experiences with loved ones back on Earth.

To harness erotic technologys potential for human space missions, we must build collaborations between academia, governmental space programs and the private sector. Erobotics can contribute to space research programs. As a field grounded in sexuality and technology positive frameworks, it recognises the importance of intimacy and sexuality in human life and promotes the development of technology geared towards health and wellbeing. And ultimately, we must shed our taboos regarding technology and sexuality as we journey to the final frontier.

Simon Dubeis aPhD candidate in psychology atConcordia University and Dave Anctil is a researcher atUniversite Laval. This article was first seen on The Conversation

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