What's the name of the Laureline eaters?

As I previously said, I saw Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets some time ago, but the DVD hasn't been released yet, and, on the Internet, I can't find the name of the tribal extraterrestrial species (which is organized as an empire, and wich's Emperor is named "[beginning of the species' name] III") that "fishes" Laureline and offers her to the Emperor as a meal. I'm a Wikipedian, and the name of the species isn't on Wikipedia, so I want to write it, but I don't remember what it is! I thought it was "Doughan-Doughòns" or something like this (and my friend who saw the film with me thought it, too), as when Flitt knows his agent are in their territory he says the first word an then says something about the agents, and I remembered it was "Doughan". But, then, I discovered the "Doghan Daguis" name of the trio of informers and it made me think it was another name. So, do you know what it is? I'm reading a text at which contains the list of the Alpha species, but I don't know if I'll read the name. Goodbye, readers!

NASA - A Human Adventure review

I've just visited the new NASA exhibition in Milan and it's beautiful, it's called "NASA - A Human Adventure" and it is in the suburbs of the city, it includes spacecraft and rover replicas, vintage merchandise, a g-force training simulator and a fantastic bookstore, but it's not so cheap!

If you live in Milan or you want to visit Milan until March 2018, the exhibition is in via privata Giovanni Ventura, 15 (CAP 20134).

Sci-Fi & Co.

Hello! May the Force be with you! Live long and prosper! Exterminate! Here's the new trailer for this blog. I posted it on YouTube a few days ago.

Doctor Who: I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With a Dalek

A famous "Dalekmania" period song inspired by Doctor Who and by the Doctor's worst enemies since 1963: the Daleks.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) review

I just saw in a theater the new cinematic adaptation of the Valérian and Laureline comics, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which is a very good film. Probably, the best scene is the initial sequence about space cooperation at the rythm of David Bowie's "Space Oddity".
The film includes many historical references, such as the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the fact that Alpha (the titular "City of a Thousand Planets") is really the International Space Station, the Destiny 2005 spacecraft (an Apollo CSM).

Orbiter 2016 review

I downloaded the new version of Martin Schweiger's famous spaceflight simulator Orbiter, titled Orbiter 2016. It's very realistic in almost all the aspects, except for collisions and air pressurization. One of the most beutiful aspects of Orbiter is that you can learn the C++ programming, which is used by many users to create new spacecraft, characters, vehicles, and celestial bodies.

One of Orbiter's bad aspects is that it's very slow to download, and, if you want to dowload it, you must download a downloading software, which is a little slow to download, too.

MALICE: 1999 - Special Episode

This is a marvelous 2012 standalone episode of the Malice webseries. It is set during the end of the Space: 1999 Year One episode "Breakaway", but on the Meta Probe and a Mark IX Hawk.

Rediscovering "Star Wars"

I just read on Rebelscum.com, a famous Star Wars-themed website, at its page, that Dr. David West Reynolds, a famous Star Wars book author, launched a 30-day-long Kickstarter project to film a documentary titled "The Archaeology of Star Wars", which target is to rediscover the remains of Mos Eisley, Mos Espa, the Tosche Station, the Lars farm and the other locations in the Sahara desert used to film the scenes on the desert planet of Tatooine.

Many of these scenes from Star Wars (now Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977) and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) were filmed beetween Libya and Tunisia and, during the filming of the 1977 film, when George Lucas and his crew were filming the scenes with the Jawa sandcrawler on the desertic border, the Libyan military ordered that the vehicle was ransacked because they thinked it was a sort of tank or a bomb vehicle from Tunisia!

"Tales from Kweelera", S1E01: "Beginning a War, Part One"

Space.
Outer space.
And, then, the Earth.
A small blue and green planet: Earth.
Now renamed Kweelera.
A man.
A Homo sapiens sapiens.
An human.
Looking at the sky.
A spacecraft.
Travelling above him.
It's the KWS Gigantic, the most powerful warship in the Milky Way, equipped with three hundreds and fifty weapons, including fifteen ion cannons and one hundred laser weapons. The Majesty-class, the Gigantic's spacecraft class, was designed in 5000.
Some people critizised the idea to call it "Gigantic", because its name sounded too much like the name of the RMS Titanic, a terrestrial Olympic-class steam mail ship that sunk in 1912.
But it was also a name representing greatness, indistructibleness, power: majesty.
The Gigantic was just entered in Kweelera's orbit, and its crew of four thousands humans was preparing to what probably stopped the flow of the time and the existance of the space, a word formed by three letters: "war".
War, a total war, which changed our universe, and some other universes, too.

I'll write here

With this post I'll annunce that I will write on this blog a new science fiction literary work divided in episodes, just like a sci-fi TV series, but without pictures and laser beam sounds.

You can comment it, but I say you that if you'll use it or its relative material without my consense, you'll probably be in trouble. So, please follow my series and, if you want, you can share it through all the ways Blogspot (and I) will permit you to use.

"Wonder Woman" (2017) review

I've seen the new DC Extended Universe film, Wonder Woman, it's a beautiful film and I can say that Patty Jenkins has done a good work: she and her team transformed Batman's secondary ally in a true live-action superheroine, they transformed a real-life future Nazi Party member in a supervillain, the mad Nazi scientist Princess Maru (supervillain alter-ego: Doctor Poison) in the ruthless Spanish chemist Isabel "Doctor Poison" Maru, working for the German and Ottoman Empires, a 1918 photo from Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice in a squad of freedom fighters.

Many comics characters are adapted in this film in a very good way.

If you search informations you must visit this sites

I visted many websites about space sciences, sci-fi, space opera fictions and many other and these are the sites that, according to me are the best ones:
If you are searching something about Star Wars you must visit http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page, better known as "Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki", I'm a Wookieepedian and I know Wookieepedia is better than http://www.starwars.com. Instead, if you arew searching something sbout Space: 1999, you must visit
http://www.space1999.net. For Anderson's UFO, http://ufopedia.edstraker.com/index.php?title=Main_Page (better known as "UFOpedia" or "SHADOpedia"). For real UFOs http://www.cufos.org/ (which is the official website of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies). For spaceflight and Astronautics http://www.astronautix.com/ (the Encyclopedia Astonautica). If you are searching something about Star Trek, you must visit http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Portal:Main ("Memory Alpha", which focuses on canonical informations about Star Trek) and http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ("Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki").

CBS Coverage of Apollo 11 Lunar Landing

The original live CBS TV transmission of the first manned lunar landing during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

Original U.S. space missions footage!

The video below is the official TV footage of the description of the launch of Explorer 1 (1958), the first U.S. satellite.

Vote Slimer for King!

Onionhead, Little Spud, the Ghost of John Belushi, but we all know him with the most famous name: he is Slimer! He's the only character to appear in all the video media of the Ghostbusters franchise (with many variations, such as his arms and the shape of his body). Slimer is a hovering blob of ectoplasm and many people asked: "Many of the ghosts have body deformations that make them assume a scarier form, but who was that ectoplasmic blob during his life?".

In the 80s, the franchise's creators decided to make a sub-franchise made of TV series and comics, that were direct sequels to the 1984 film. One of this comic book series was The Real Ghostbusters, wich was published in the USA and in the UK, the only country that had an explaination of Slimer's life, represented in a strip that appeared on The Real Ghostbusters #22.
As this ambigously canonical theory tells, Slimer was called King Remils ("Slimer" backwards) and was an obese king who died after a heart failure.

Do you hink it's a canonizable thory? What's your opinion about Remils?

Na'vi Jedi?

Watching James Cameron's famous sci-fi film Avatar (2009) and the Star Wars canon space opera film Rogue One (also known as "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" or "Star Wars: Rogue One") I noticed that are some common items: in fact, the Rebel Rogue One squad and their Zeta-class cargo shuttle SW-0608 are very similar to the rogue scientists lead by "Jakesully" and their helicopter: Rogue One!

But it's not all: the Battle of Scarif is similar to the battle on Pandora from Avatar: the scientist's pod is like the Imperial security complex and the Citadel Tower on Scarif, Colonel Quaritch is very similar to Orson Krennic, Trudy to Bodhi Rook, the outcome of the battles is almost identical,...

Ghostbusting Titanic

The picture below is a screenshot from the 1989 sequel of the famous 1984 film Ghostbusters: Ghostbusters II. In this film, shortly before the soul of the Moldovan tyrant Vigo the Carpathian takes power by exiting from the painting where it was trapped, many people called the NYPD after seeing ghosts in Manhattan, where the Ghostbusters Peter Venkman, "Ray" Stantz, Egon Spengler, Winston Zeddemore and their friends Janine Melnitz, Louis Tully and Dana Barrett lived.
One of thes ghosts is the ghost of the wreck of the famed British ship RMS Titanic, that appears in a gag scene during Chapter 21 of Ghostbusters II.
The Royal Mail Ship Titanic was a White Star Line Olympic-class ocean liner launched on May, 31, 1911; that sunk on April, 14, 1912 after the collision with an iceberg and was found underwater in 1985, four years before the release of the film, but the Industrial Light & Magic model used in the film is clearly different from the real ship wreckage and any other ship that sunk after the collision with an iceberg!

"UFO" over the TV

Not so many people know that Gerry Anderson's TV series UFO wasn't only a TV series: there were some comics, films and more, too.

In Italy, for example, were produced many UFO compilation movies, because the Italian-language UFO was aired on the regional television channel of the Swiss Republic and Canton of Ticino and only in northern Italy people watched it: UFO - Allarme rosso... attacco alla Terra! (1973), UFO - Distruggete Base Luna (1973; this movie served as namesake for a board game, too), UFO - Prendeteli vivi (1974) and UFO - Contatto radar... stanno atterrando...! (1974) and UFO - Annientate SHADO... Uccidete Straker... Stop! (1974).
In 1971, 1972 and 1973, American magazines Countdown and TV Action published fourty-eight UFO comic strips, too.
But it isn't all: in 1970, Pan Books Ltd. publixhed a book titled Gerry Anderson's UFO #1 (ISBN:0330026445).