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„The Terminator,” „The Walking Dead,” „Aliens,” and a lot more. Those are just some of the producing credits for this week’s main guest on StarTalk Radio. Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with producer-extraordinaire Gale Anne Hurd to explore what it takes to bring great science fiction to life. Neil is joined by comic co-host Chuck Nice, science fiction expert Jason Ellis, PhD, and volcanologist Janine Krippner, PhD.
Because science fiction comes in many different forms and through many different avenues, there are many ways to get into it. You’ll learn how Gale’s childhood love of Marvel comic books and science fiction novels translated into a career “making what she likes to see.” She tells us how she served as a science fiction consultant to her local library to make sure their stock was up to date. Jason shares why not being able to see Star Wars in the theater sparked a rebellious love for science fiction.
You’ll hear about the history of science fiction and how it combines the STEM fields and the humanities. We debate if science fiction informs the future of every technological invention. You’ll find out about a lawsuit H.G Wells brought upon military figureheads because he claimed they stole his idea from one of his science fiction stories. Explore using science fiction as social commentary. Discover more about the famous kiss between Captain Kirk and Lt. Uhura, and how William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols purposely flubbed takes to make sure it stayed in the episode.
We take a deep dive into „Dante’s Peak” as volcanologist Janine Krippner stops by to share her take on the film. She explains why she thinks it’s still the best volcano movie even with its flaws. Gale gives us a behind-the-scenes look on how she fought for even more scientific realism to be in the film but encountered pushback from the studio. Neil also confronts Gale on the famous scientific inaccuracies of „Armageddon.” Chuck shares his love for „The Expanse,” we discuss „Interstellar,” and Neil tells us about his involvement in „The Europa Report.”
Lastly, you’ll also find out the differences between creating science fiction for television and film. According to Hugo Gernsback, the father of science fiction, sci-fi should be 75% romance and 25% science – is that still the goal? All that, plus, Jason caps it off with a story on how he was criticizing the film „Sunshine” right in front of director Danny Boyle’s family.
This episode originally aired on May 30, 2019.
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That Asimov quote sounds mystic after this podcast but still a building block :
Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said, "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
It is great to have a cosmic perspective, however this is as long as there is not a blindness to the elephant in the room.
For those who have not really thought about this, consider that the decision to organise society according to a fiscal system, which is really a bad idea.
Rather one really should start at the point of knowing what resources are actually available., and that is not considered at all in the current organization, which is mainly is only determining the movement of money sequence. Money is literally: life – blind. Social organization based on money movement alone is never going to work. There are “X” amount of people “Y” amount of resources, and you cannot use more than you have. For example making things that have short life potential is bad planning, and yet that is the preference in a fiscal economy. The preference in our economy is to move money sequence, not so much "is this really the best that we can do?".
The saddest part of the climate debate, is that most people believe that switching to clean alternatives would be costly and job killing. In fact, the exact opposite is true. High oil tax, plus instant rebates for all citizens, would create the greatest economic boom in world history without hurting consumers in the least. Even if climate wasn't a problem, it would be foolish to not do it as quickly as possible.
The more realistic killer asteroid movie was Don't Look Up.
If you like the concept of Falling Water, you might like 1899.
Spoiler alert, the people on the ship are not really in 1899.
Funny how Chuck likes how Star Trek has humanity all working together, yet that is more fantastic than warp drive or the transporter.
Almost 4 million startalkers
Where can I see just the interview with Gale??
Arthur C Clark in 1933 wrote a story about people who would go to a machine to get some kind of funds. ACC invented the ATM 😮
My first film was Fantasia. I made grandfather read all the Disney people who made the movie ❤
When I see movies I also want to know who did what to create the film. ❤ I love films❤
I love that Chuck mentioned anime, because it works just fine, and the whole thing is that we don't do it in the west.
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at 30:28, jeezuss, even neil screws up, and says "Water"
Ughh Neil DeGrasse Tyson can not let someone get through a sentence without interrupting.
Sooo… the so called expert blatantly lied about the amount of co2 produced by volcanoes…
I don’t think Wells sued Swinton for the invention of the tank. There was some serious debate going on between them, eventually things got too heated. Then, Swinton decided to sue Wells for libel.
We all know the real star of this show is Chuck. He holds it all together with his unmatched wit. I want to see a chuck Nice show, with Niel as a guest.
Chuck: Mr Nice, Chuck Nice.
Did you just compliment yourself?
Chuck: I was doing the Bond thing…
The International Rescue Committee
When Eyjafjallajökull was kicking off on 2010 and stopped most of European sue travel wasn't there a reduction in co2
Armageddon Science
The volcano in Hawaii caused hot metals and lava flows
The International Rescue Committee
Cool, she’s a Marvel girl…95% of my collection was Marvel Comics
He's right but I remembered the episode with one race was black on one side and white on the other and the other races same colors were on the opposite side.
i randomly found The Unlisted on netflix and watched the trailer over and over again and FINALLY watched it and WOW!!! it is amazing an sci fi tv series!
As most wildlife are not capable of romance,what makes you think e. t. is capable of it?
I love the many many bits neil and chuck have during every podcast.
Man, chuck nice is literally PERFECT for this. Power power.
Usually films take less than a year to make, not 2 MABYE 3 no ONE maybe TWO. Ps: not hating love this show 💜💜💜
The expanse Fan here.
It's amazing to see Chuck getting more and more refined. Keep it going !!!
As a casual Anime Fan, I agree that characters in anime talk, explain, e.t.c in their own mind a lot. 😂
I love when Sci-Fi movie makes differences, which somehow problematic or even taboo in real word, unimportant because there are bigger threats to overcome.
One of my English electives in high school, back in the 80s, was a course on science fiction and fantasy lit. (:
Niel: So ash is misleading! Its more like volcanic pins and needles.
Chuck: Like little volcanic shards!
Niel: Shards! What would you call them?
Volcanic Scientist: Volcanic Doomy-bits.
And Chuck is bigger idiot than I previously thought. And that's quite big
Aw, I had respect for Neil until the last few videos, now I'm a little embarrassed
My favorite part is when they interrupt the guests after asking them a question before they can answer.
What I have not seen is any new dystopian theme movies with a more 2020 view of our potential future if everything goes wrong.
There is still the dystopia of war or fascist leadership or hyper commercialism…but what I would like to see is a play on the current fear of runaway global warming positive feedback loops.
What kind of dystopia would we be in if the world heated up 10 degrees in the next 100 years, we all had to crowd into the poles and build for extreme storms, food shortages and the power struggles of people as our global geography is ruined.
I refuse to read or think science fiction. The science of physics is real and much more interesting and rewarding.
With what they do to perfectly good books, it doesn't surprise me.