Planet of The Apes

How ‘Independence Day,’ ‘Armageddon’ and others bred the schlockbuster

Edit The Oklahoman 28 Jun 2016

And I doubt I’m alone in missing the truly effective and exciting world-enders, like the first “Planet of the Apes” and, more ambiguously and on a grander scale of hopelessness, “2001 ... And his sense of scale, delightfully flexible (He’s small! He’s big! Now he’s really big!), offers a break from the pummeling of major cities, world landmarks, the planet itself ... In the apocalyptic scheme of things, he’s a blip....

How 'Independence Day,' 'Armageddon' and others bred the schlockbuster

Edit The Miami Herald 28 Jun 2016

And I doubt I'm alone in missing the truly effective and exciting world-enders, like the first "Planet of the Apes" and, more ambiguously and on a grander scale of hopelessness, "2001 ... And his sense of scale, delightfully flexible (He's small! He's big! Now he's really big!), offers a break from the pummeling of major cities, world landmarks, the planet itself ... In the apocalyptic scheme of things, he's a blip....

Hot stuff (Washington University in Saint Louis)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jun 2016

The media often imply that the goal of the hunt for extrasolar planets is to find a rocky planet about the size of Earth orbiting a star like the sun at a distance that would allow liquid water to persist on its surface ... The hot, rocky planets, for example, offer rare and precious clues to the character and evolution of the early Earth ... 'If you boil off a lot of the silicon, you might end up with a much denser planet than you'd expect....

Movies opening this week: ‘BFG,’ ‘Tarzan,’ ‘Purge 3’

Edit Kansas City Star 28 Jun 2016

Steven Spielberg adapts a beloved Roald Dahl tale. Other big movies bring a new ape-man and election-themed horror. Also opening. “Swiss Army Man,” “De Palma,” “Our Kind of Traitor,” “Nuts!” … Click to Continue » ... ....

Images of a Beautiful Planet Offer Perspective from Space

Edit Voa News 28 Jun 2016

She says that A Beautiful Planet was easier to shoot because the new digital IMAX cameras are much lighter, smaller and they don’t run out of film so quickly ... Now, in A Beautiful Planet, Oscar-winning Jennifer Lawrence offers a compelling narration on the impact of deforestation on the environment, the melting of glaciers and the rise of sea levels which can threaten low-lying coastal cities such as New Orleans....

Arizona plays critical role in an asteroid miner mission

Edit Business Journal 28 Jun 2016

If you’ve read or seen “The Martian,” you likely understand the difficulties surrounding navigation to and from a planet ... Most recently, our company put the Messenger spacecraft around the planet Mercury after a series of complicated maneuvers designed to allow capture around a body so close to our massive star. Using the gravitational pull of a planet…....

photo: NASA/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech), JPL-Caltech

This artist's concept shows the distant dwarf planet Makemake and its newly discovered moon. Makemake and its moon, nicknamed MK 2, are more than 50 times farther away than Earth is from the sun.

[VIDEO]: Scientists Overjoyed With Discovery Of Moon Named MK2 Orbiting Makemake

Edit WorldNews.com 28 Jun 2016

Looking deep into space, scientists from a Southwest Research Institute-led team have discovered an elusive, dark moon orbiting Makemake, one of the so-called “big four” dwarf planets populating the Kuiper Belt region at the edge of our solar systems, Science Daily reported Tuesday ... Alex Parker Parker spotted a faint point of light close to the dwarf planet using data from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, the report said....

The first images NASA took of Mars pale in comparison to the ones we have now

Edit Business Insider 28 Jun 2016

Before these space probes reached the planets, often all we had were grainy, black-and-white images of them from telescopes here on Earth ... The world has collectively launched 43 missions to the Red Planet, about half of which have been successful....

Alien Worlds Might Be Covered in Enormous Mountains

Edit The Atlantic 28 Jun 2016

They can be seen from a small neighboring valley, from the shores of a shallow lake, whose smooth waters carry an inverted image of the snow-striped peaks ... The Director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute, Kaltenegger spent most of her stage time talking about planets in distant star systems, and the possibility that some of them play host to life ... I returned to town, and set up shop on a back deck with a with a wide view of the sky....

Ashok Leyland to slim down; here’s why

Edit Yahoo Daily News 28 Jun 2016

Ashok Leyland will look at exiting non-core areas to keep its growth momentum in FY17, Dheeraj G Hinduja, chairman of the company, has said ... The capacity of the Ras-Al-Khaimah plant will be almost doubled this year. To cope up with increasing demand, a new assembly unit in Bangladesh is in the offing and further units in Africa are under active ......

Mercury's Dramatic Lava Flows Came From Extremely Rare Meteorites

Edit IFL Science 28 Jun 2016

During the fiery birth of the Solar System around ... Now, after a series of ingenious experiments – those designed to physically reproduce Mercury’s volcanic activity – a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) think that they now know what this distant planet is made of....

Rustom second poster: Akshay Kumar’s look will remind you of Bhagat Singh!

Edit Bollywood Life 28 Jun 2016

Sneak-peek into the sets of Akshay Kumar’s ‘Rustom’ ... Akshay Kumar is surprising us day after day with the choice of his films ... When the first poster of the film was out, it created a sense of Intrigue ... The film is set a few decades back, which explains the old style Times of India newspaper logo....

Letters: With global warming, is it safe to have kids?

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 28 Jun 2016

... a job, and what am I doing with my life? But it's not normal for people like me to be scared about the future of the planet....

Everything Wrong With Planet Of The Apes (2001, Tim Burton)