Interstellar
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'Interstellar': Read Christopher Nolan's "Lost Chapter" in Comic-Book Form
A “lost chapter” of Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster appears in comic-book form in the new issue of Wired. In Interstellar, explorers Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway), Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), and Romilly (David Gyasi) land on Mann’s ice planet, where they’re delighted to learn that the planet’s surface can support human life.
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'Interstellar': A Physicist Explains That Crazy Ending
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic, which had a strong opening weekend, touted the accuracy of the basic physics behind its story. McConaughey’s character, Cooper, ends up in a massive black hole, which holds a gigantic bookshelf that allows him to communicate, via Morse Code, with a past version of his daughter, Murph. The ideas of time dilation and visiting the vicinity of the black hole, and how that would sort of send you into the future, and the actual appearance of the black hole and of the
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NASA's Movie and TV Guru Explains How Hollywood Goes to Space
When Hollywood wants to visit outer space, it often turns to NASA’s Bert Ulrich to help them get there. As the agency’s multimedia liaison for film and TV collaborations, Ulrich helps facilitate and guide the massive demand for resources, insight, and permissions that NASA receives from the entertainment industry. If it deals with astronauts, we’ll try to have them talk with astronauts.
