Dream blunt rotation: Ellen Ripley, Ellie Arroway, Dana Scully
Elle Cordova
@ellecordova.bsky.social
A nerd at large. Writer. Musician. Sometimes funny. 🏳️🌈 Join my sci-fi book club: http://patreon.com/ellecordova nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Disclosure Day was exactly what I was hoping it would be. Thrills, wonder, mystery, and the gift of another John Williams score (the man is 94!) which alone was worth the price of admission. If you like classic Spielberg, go see it.
Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe. Happy Earth Day.
Up on the big screen at TED this morning with some rhyming humor in between talks.
Hi there. I am Elle, host of a science fiction book club, and you are cordially invited to read this book with me this month. I just picked up my copy tonight at my favorite local bookshop and I’m on page 16. Brain is happy.
Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.
SPLASHDOWN!!! Three cheers for science, engineering, research, curiosity, cooperation. Look what the fuck we can do when we ask big questions, work together, and fund our scientists. Congratulations, NASA. Congratulations, humanity!
Fellow human beings are bravely flying out into the cold darkness of space today. With this mission, NASA is laying the groundwork for so much more exploration over the next few years. I’ll be watching, hoping, dreaming with them at launch time, and I’m so glad to be alive to see the next chapter
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Got to see an early screening of Project Hail Mary with the @planetarysociety.bsky.social folks last night. A fantastic adaptation. Highly encourage sci-fi fans to check it out when it hits theaters later this month.
These guys are so clearly terrified. Spooked by their own wrongdoing. Alarmed that it’s all being recorded and disseminated before they can rewrite the story. Each bystander has a billion eyes, a billion ears. This is not what they signed up for. The recruitment propaganda promised glory, power, and
Not many career paths lead to being friends with the dictionary, but I’m happy to find myself in one. Thanks for the early copy of the Twelfth Edition, @merriam-webster.com! Narrative is a bit disjointed and it’s kind of a slow burn, but by the Qs I couldn’t put it down. Five stars.
I never feel more saintly than when I put a pristine copy of a desirable book in someone’s little library box.
Hey Instagram, maybe give @britannica.com their checkmark. I’ve heard the references look out for their own and you don’t want to find yourself in verbal fisticuffs with @merriam-webster.com
No, in this country we don’t tolerate senators being forced to the ground and cuffed for asking questions. We don’t tolerate masked agents rounding people up on the streets and disappearing them in unmarked vans. And we sure as hell don’t tolerate
Our van broke down in Roswell so naturally we wrote a song about the 1947 UFO incident while we were stranded there. Now our song is featured in the latest episode of the Via Podcast. It’s a fun trip through UFO lore and bizarre desert mysteries. Tune in here: mwg.aaa.com/via/podcast/...
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The trouble with receiving a notebook so perfect and special is that I will never have thoughts good enough to write in it
Now would be the perfect time for a massive new open world game to take over my life. Give me a backpack with upgradable tools and set me loose upon a world of someone else’s making, please.