The big challenge in writing about insomnia is not to be a cure for it.
Sci-fi Saturday: What if sweet sleep were a distant memory? In a world going mad in “Don’t Forget To Remember” and dying from insomnia, a young woman may have a cure. Sci-fi Saturday: A future where dreams have been privatized Unfortunately, the dream Carlos wants in “I Dream” is to see his missing family again and that’s illegal … More dystopia than science fiction but the post-5G surveillance environment amid mass poverty and oppression is well imagined. One could almost see something like “McPherson’s Toys” happening,, as an office gag, but 500 years from now. Sci-fi Saturday: “This planet is not in our co-ordinates.” A space courier crew gets a surprise when delivering a mysterious machine to a strange planet. CARONTE ends as it must - not happily but inevitably, and with at least some sense of redemption. Sci-fi Saturday: Can an alternative universe save a lonely girl?A girl finds fighting space aliens easier than fighting a brain haemorrhage and a sense of guilt. The story prompted this viewer to consider what thoughts a robot simply couldn’t have without some kind of input from consciousness – always the Hard Problem. Sci-fi Saturday: In a world run by robots, a bot becomes a joker The dull, dystopian atmosphere of an Australia dominated by robots, portrayed in “System Error,” is well done and worth the watch. Sci-fi Saturday: What if a new start in life were two pills away? Would you feel the same about suicide? In “Cam Girl,” a woman whose life is going nowhere, largely by her own choice, learns what it means to be genuinely desperate. In “Container,” the time traveler is locked inside his lab and can only get out by repeated, dangerous efforts to go back in time to when the door is unlocked. Sci-fi Saturday: Can we live in more than the present moment? When a tech entrepreneur succeeds with time travel, he gets trapped in his own past errors. Arriving at a mining station near Saturn, Detective Lennox must interview three suspects in the captain’s murder. The combination of the sci-fi and detective genres takes some skill to pull off but this Australian crew succeeds. Sci-fi Saturday: “The Big Nothing” melds sci-fi and whodunit in a taut drama. Other reviews from the “We are but DUST” files: Hussain Kanchwala, “ Can We Terraform Mars?” at ScienceABC (January 25, 2021)īut, more than that, terraforming has always foundered on the problem that, if we can’t fix Earth - which is highly habitable now - using our advanced technology, why would we expect to have much luck fixing Mars, which is mostly or entirely barren now? Hadn’t we better fix Earth first?īut this is a great theme for science fiction, especially when handled as well as this. The fact that pioneers and explorers would begin evolving into Martians would also be another point of discussion. All in all, they are likely to diverge from us and become a new species as the process of evolution kicks in. They may develop new blood chemistry, given that the air pressure would be different. Given that the gravity on Mars is much lower, Martians are likely to become taller than us. These Martians would also adapt generation after generation in the foreign environment. The people who would terraform Mars would be Martians. One serious science consideration is that humans may well change a lot if we live on Mars: Terraforming Mars (making Mars habitable) is an idea that has been around for a while both in science and in science fiction (see, for example, “The Martian Way” by Isaac Asimov, 1952).
#Ftl terraforming free
Here’s a fundamental contradiction to reflect on: If the better world the Mars pioneers are attempting to create cannot accommodate free choice in non-destructive human relationships, what’s “scientific” or “logical” about it?Īnd, while we are here anyway, if humans wrecked Earth, why should we assume that nature is always or usually wrong about things, compared to us? Worth the watch, especially for the way it conveys an alien world clearly in a few scenes. Key quote: “Ever wonder what real rain must feel like?” one asks the other. No spoilers but you can probably guess what happens next … You might not guess the ending though. Of course, in that new world, ruled by science and logic, “pairing choice is made for the common good” and acting otherwise is a “personal violation.” Of course, two young people try to find each other while parroting the textbook slogans about not being selfish or foolish.ĭon’t miss the ghastly scene where couples are “paired” to each other (by some algorithm?).
Life on a submarine with an unpleasant CO might be somewhat like that. It conveys the claustrophobia of an underground world where death rules the planet’s surface. “New Mars” premiered in 2019 and has won a number of awards.
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