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Saturday, 9 December 2017

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!

Monday, 6 November 2017

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).

Sunday, 5 November 2017

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.

Friday, 13 October 2017

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.

Monday, 2 October 2017

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The film includes many historical references, such as the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the fact that Alpha (the titular "City of a Thousand Planets") is really the International Space Station, the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).

Friday, 18 August 2017

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.

Friday, 11 August 2017

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.