New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane spots an anachronism, or more specifically a parachronism (OED: 'too late a date'), in the new Star Trek.
There's a scene in the movie, which introduces us to Captain Kirk's childhood and early adulthood, where the youthful James trashes a red Corvette.
'Nice work, Jim,' writes Lane, 'getting hold of fossil fuel in the twenty-third century'.
Knot theory could help spacecraft navigate crowded solar systems
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It can be difficult to figure out how to move a spacecraft from one orbit
to another, but a trick from knot theory can help find spots where shifting
orbit...
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