The recent Star Trek films are not that different from Star Wars. Outside of a few thoughtful space films like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Interstellar (2014), Hollywood populates the expanding universe with endless monsters (ex: the Alien series) and apocalyptic warfare (ex: Star Wars), complimented by very little awe, wonder, and discovery. This cosmic and philosophical failure is evident in our popular arts.
This death began with the crash of Apollo 8 and Earthrise. In the wake of the stunning achievements of the Apollo program and the Hubble Space Telescope (just two examples), philosophy has failed to generate a popular cosmic narrative that integrates the origins and destinies of the human species into the vast and wondrous cosmos-an expanding universe stretching across 100 billion light years and populated with 2 trillion galaxies and untold numbers of stars, planets, lifeforms, and black holes.
But, as a force in popular culture, contemporary philosophy is largely dead, primarily because it has failed to keep up with the discoveries in contemporary cosmology. Of course, philosophy is still alive in academic journals, Amazon books, and the shrinking philosophy section at the Barnes & Noble bookstores. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.” (p. Living in this vast world that is by turns kind and cruel, and gazing at the immense heavens above, people have always asked a multitude of questions: How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? How does the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where did all this come from? Did the universe need a creator? … Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. They wrote: “We exist but for a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe. In the book The Grand Design (2012), Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow claimed that “philosophy is dead” (p. Note: This article was cited in the New York Times (July 22, 2018) as an intellectual counter to the emerging religion of “Ancient Aliens.”įor more of my critiques of conspiracy theory in Medium:Ģ021: “ Anti-Vaxxers, Conspiracy Theorists, and Jean Baudrillard’s “Perfect Crime”Ģ020: “ UFO-JFK-X-NEO-Q: The Alpha-Omega of Conspiracy Theory”Ģ020: “ Welcome to the Desert of the Red Pill”Ģ017: “ Apollo Moon Landings: Pseudoscience and Six Reasons Why There Was No NASA Hoax”Ģ017: “ The Kennedy Assassination and Zapruder Film: Conspiracy Theories and Alt-Fact Worldviews”
Tsoukalos quote against a Hubble Deep Field image, courtesy of NASA.
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See what awaits beyond the fringes in the Ancient Space announcement trailer:Īncient Space mixes an engrossing single-player campaign story with time-honored RTS gameplay for a suspenseful experience.
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Paradox Interactive today revealed that Ancient Space, a new story-driven real-time strategy (RTS) game from developer CreativeForge Games, will be coming to Windows and Mac PCs in Fall 2014.Īncient Space is a single-player, real-time strategy title that puts the player in command of a fleet conducting a scientific mission on the edge of the known universe, charting what lies beyond in ‘The Black Zone.’ A rich and compelling story will guide the player as they build and upgrade their fleets and then survive overwhelming odds in deadly strategic missions. New Story-driven Real-Time Strategy Game With Stellar Cast Announced Paradox Interactive and CreativeForge Games Invite You to Explore the Void
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