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Interstellar: love & rockets
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Los ANGELES — While Christopher Nolan’s film Interstellar was shooting everywhere from Alberta to Iceland in 2013, it was code-named Flora’s Letter. That was an indication that, as much as humanly possible, this would be a project wrapped in secrecy.
Even on the eve of its release, some secrets will remain guarded with regards to everything from plot twists to casting choices. (No professional media person wants to be a spoiler.)
What should be evident, however, is that Interstellar aspires to grand, ambitious, visually dazzling and yes, trippy science fiction of a calibre not seen since Stanley Kubrick unveiled 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968.
And yet the movie must be viewed as light years away from Kubrick’s visionary odyssey. Just as Nolan reinvented the comic-book genre with his Dark Knight trilogy, he was intent on creating something unique in the realm of science fiction: a film with 2001’s conceptual brilliance, but with a beating human heart.
Thus, Interstellar is a very human drama about a crack pilot (Matthew McConaughey) enlisted on a sp
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Christiaan is in his third-year specialization in mathematics - computational science. He loves to learn the fascinating relationship between computers and mathematics. When not behind his computer coding or iPad doing math, he enjoys jumping out of planes and teaching others to do so.
Ever since I was young, I was utterly fascinated with rockets. I would look to the sky, find the moon and think of the colossal journey and intellectual might it must have taken to get humans all the way there.
As I grew older, I never lost my love for rockets but decided to pursue maths and computing science as it was something else that interested me. Then, one day on campus, I stumbled upon a STARR recruitment poster and immediately dropped everything I was doing. In hindsight, it was not the best idea as I had a midterm the next day, but learning more about the STARR club and how I could join was worth it.
I started as a general member of the Payload subteam that would design the scientific payload to be launched alongside our sounding rocket. I helped design the electrical components that would take sensor measurements during the rocket's flight and take air samples while the rocket came safely back to Eart
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Carrying the legacy: Troy Durrell’s passion provision sports
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