Scott Madry Executive Director, the Global Space Institute, North Carolina, USA
I’m an old radio ham, so the scene at 3:36 in the video below, where Ellie Arroway calls CQ (“seek you”) on the shortwaves after her father dies, was a tough act to follow for me, cinematically, and it really was a great movie. In some ways the book was much richer and deeper, and in other ways the movie got it just right, but there’s no doubt this…
I’ve only been doing astrophotography for about 6 months now and I’ve fallen into the cliched trap of…