"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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>   Btw, can anyone recommend *good* sci-fi movies? Preferrably hard science
> fiction. "Hard" in this context means physically plausible technology and
> physics, which imples, among other things:
>
> - No faster-than-light travel.
> - No time travel.
> - No far-fetched supernatural phenomena (unknown to modern science).
> - Preferably no aliens, but if there are, as plausible ones as possible.

>   (The alien in the movie of the same name *counts* as plausible because
> it does nothing supernatural or physically implausible.)

I would consider several things, such as their growth rate without apparent
nutrients, physically and biologically implausible. I think Aliens series is
much closer to "horror when mutant, 20 foot ants attack" genre than hard
sci-fi.

>   Besides Alien (and Aliens), this one is a perfect example of what I'm
> looking for: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/

I just had a quick glance, but sun going out and being kick started by
humans both seem like definition of supernatural.

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