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Rovern, early color concept art by Robert T. McCall

Pyramid (canceled in the early1970s): Early color concept art by Robert T. McCall (Star Trek: The Motion Picture).

Pyramid is an unrealized Douglas Trumbull (Silent Running) movie, written by David C Goodman and canceled when MGM invested $120 million in a Las Vegas hotel.

Someone was asking what the interstellar medium around the Sun looks like in 3D. Here's a quick render. I might add an improved version of this to a room in my Star Central VR world.

Brown: dust, red: ionized gas, blue: hot stars.

"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

TOS phaser concept art - it has a few dimensions written on it

Tholian ship concept art

I was a Junior in Wooster High School in Ohio. I was in a class where we were taught to create Crystal Radio sets, requiring an antenna and earphones.
I plugged my set in and the first thing I heard was “Kennedy has been shot.”
I dropped the earphones; afraid I had made the radio incorrectly.

Foundation.

WHAT A FUCKING SHOW.

Theodore Kosloff as “Electricity” From the film 'Madame Satan' Man in a spiky costume made to look like lightning bolts

Mood.

Benton Discovery, bimodal NTR
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#lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship

Extremely rough pen sketches of an Imperial scout ship from the tabletop role-playing game Traveller.

Inspired by a recent Traveller session: (very) quick studies of an Imperial scout ship.

E6B - Wikipedia

The FAA still requires you to learn to use a slide rule flight computer ("E6B") to get a pilot license. They're pretty nifty: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B

The AI disclaimer writes itself though. AVOID USING COPILOT TO CO PILOT

YouTube video by Phillip Duncan 1967 Fantastic Four Cartoon Intro

I remember that

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eue8...

An acrylic hair brush and airbrush painting from a failed calendar project. 'January' started the series sowing Earth from its formation to 2.2 billion years ago, half the history of Earth. Each successive month represented half the remaining history with some 'editorial shuffling'. I did the first 6 months, Adolf Schaller did the last more recent ones and we collaborated equally on the final month. Unfortunately his work for the project is probably lost except for the 'December' work which I have and still has my contributions unfinished. #SciArt

An acrylic painting done in 1982 for an Earth history related 'Cosmic Calendar' that was supposed to be published by a Carl Sagan affiliated business, but the project fell apart leaving a dozen unused paintings. I have mine, including one that is yet unfinished. Here we see a Paleozoic tide pool.

Little animation of my latest spaceship arriving at Mars. #scifi #b3d #space #mars #future #digitalart

One large model rocket, and the three stages of a smaller one, freshly spray painted and left to dry in the sun on a deck.

The box cover of a very old model rocket kit. It has an illustration, not a photo. The three stage model has a silver body tube, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd stages have blue, white, and red fins.

After several months, I'm back building rockets. Actually, painting them.

The box art for the three-stage Microsonde has terribly difficult paint scheme no sane person would attempt, so of course I'm trying.

The big rocket is the Maxi-Lepus, which was in a video in a post yesterday.

My perverse brain keeps insisting on viewing the hose adapters as cartoon eyeballs. So to me the photos looks like something out of the movie The Electric State

Old guy working at Ceres morgue, recyling department. Dead bodies not needed for police investigations are reduced to component elements and used for food production. Label on his overalls say "Waste Not, Want Not" From The Expanse

There is some concern that in solar system colonies phosphorus could be life's bottleneck. Some theorize that the dear departed might have to have their bodies smelted to recover critical chemical elements.

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Coffin burial won’t work. And sky burial is right out - no one’s bringing vultures.

Cremation? Do gas and ash perform the needed recycling? Also does anyone actually want to light a fire that hot in a closed system? 4/

Been reading @zachweinersmith.bsky.social @weinersmith.bsky.social ‘s City on Mars and woke up thinking about dead people

They haven’t mentioned them (yet??) but that’s cool, All The Things In Society is a lot, but ultimately if you have long-term space colonies, gotta deal with dead people 1/

I've often wondered what sci-fi would be like without Campbell. Or Forrest J. Ackerman. Famous Monsters of Filmland. Starlog. They shaped the culture. That's not a criticism, that's just how it is.

Concept Art TOS Shuttlecraft. #startrek #trek #tng #VOY #DS9. Feel free to follow me or share my posts.

Spent yesterday writing about the discrepancies in the 1966-1967 GE NEP crewed Mars mission study. Gave me a headache - there are so many. Decided this morning I am going to pick just 3-4 really massive representative ones.

But first, I need a break - up, up, and away to see SUPERMAN at last.

A photo from the episode featuring Burgess Meredith & Fritz Weaver.

In the mood for some Twilight Zone. Rewatching one of my favorites, The Obsolete Man.

Although it was entertaining to see Autobots and Junkicons dancing with each other to the tune of Weird Al Yankovits' "Dare To Be Stupid"

Ah yes, the animated movie that traumatized millions of children...

(It was also the first time I saw grown men crying in a theater)

Good times

The Transformers: The Movie

The Transformers: The Movie was released 39 years ago today.

"The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons."

Working on some rules for a game next week that mashes together Aeroneff and Full Thrust 2nd ed. It should work well as Aeroneff was loosely based on Full Thrust.
#VSF #tabletopgames #tabletopgaming #tabletopwargaming #Aeroneff #FullThrust

(SPOILER ALERT!), Winchell.

Excellent T-shirt!

Makes me want to re-watch the movie "Hugo", which is based on the life of Georges Méliès.

Méliès shot first! Pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès is widely regarded as having produced the first science fiction films, as well as having originated the art of cinematic visual effects.