Category: Science
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Apollo 13 and the Spirit of Science
Apollo 13 is the most authentic movie about space flight that I have ever seen. Director Ron Howard went to great lengths to make the movie as accurate as possible. The dialogues between Apollo 13 crew and Houston are almost verbatim reproductions of the actual manuscript.
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Atomic Memory using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Here was a tool that could operate at atomic level so the scientists went even further. They picked an atom from the surface and placed it at another point. They could now write with atoms. IBM and several other researchers demonstrated the technique of atomic manipulation.
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
It is often said that you should not watch a movie for what you want to see. You should watch it for what the director and the actors want to show you. This is fine in case of normal movies but in case of biographies, this does lead to a disappointment.