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Name Birth Death Field or notable accomplishment Abishur Prakash: 1991: living: geopolitical futurist, author Adrian Berry: 1937: 2016: writer, journalist Alan Marshall: 1975: living: academic, environmentalist, social scientist, writer Aldous Huxley: 1894: 1963: writer of Brave New World, psychedelic prophet Alvin & Heidi Toffler: 1928/1929 ...
"The Derelict" – the name given to the abandoned alien spacecraft discovered by the crew of the deep space tug Nostromo in the film Alien (1979) [48] Darksyde – The Predacon transwarp ship in the Beast Wars television series. [49] The name was spelled with a y in the Beast Wars video game and in the DVD box set.
Size (left) and distance (right) of a few well-known galaxies put to scale. The following is a list of notable galaxies.. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in the Local Supercluster, and an estimated 100 billion in all of the observable universe.
Steven Universe Future: 2013-2019 2019-2020: A human who died on the Gem Homeworld and was resurrected by Steven, later becoming the captain of a group of fugitive gems on a stolen spaceship. He has been described as "complicated fellow" by his voice actor, Matthew Moy, [8] and was designed by series creator Rebecca Sugar when she was in ...
Each level of the game takes place on a space dreadnought named after a different metal. The last level is named after the fictional element uridium. The cassette inlay card says the name was created by one of the game developers who thought uridium really existed. [86] (Not to be confused with real element iridium.) Uru: Marvel Comics
Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870) The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923.
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Microvac, a future version of Multivac resembling a thick rod of metal the length of a spaceship appearing in The Last Question, reputed to be one of Isaac Asimov's favorite stories. It appears in the book Nine Tomorrows (1959) Galactic AC, a future version of Microvac and Multivac in Isaac Asimov's The Last Question (1959)