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In the story, it is indeed a vaporous comet that strikes the Earth depleting the atmosphere of nitrogen. Olson and Ford also suggest possible sources of Poe's knowledge of both comets: Elijah Hinsdale Burritt's The Geography of the Heavens and John Herschel 's 1835 A Treatise on Astronomy .
It is an untouched but Mars-like icy planet, [2] larger than Earth, with about forty percent ocean and a mean temperature of twenty-five degrees Fahrenheit. Named for science communicator Carl Sagan, it has a pure nitrogen atmosphere that is terraformed by the Magellan's crew after arrival. Sirius X is a colony of Earth mentioned in the story.
Boris Karloff in James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.The monster is created by an unorthodox biology experiment.. Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of ...
In microbial nitrogen metabolism, the occurrence of hydrazine as an intermediate is rare. [36] Hydrazine has been proposed as an enzyme-bound intermediate in the nitrogenase reaction. [37] Recently, using detailed molecular analyses and combining complementary methods, Kartal and coworkers published strong evidence supporting the latter mechanism.
"Travel by Wire!" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. His first published story, it was first published in December 1937. This story is a humorous record on the development of the "radio-transporter" (actually a teleportation machine), and the various technical difficulties and commercial ventures that resulted.
That kind of precision, I think, is so important when you plot out these complicated science fiction stories.” For science fiction creators, though, the appeal goes beyond its universal shorthand.
"Calories" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of his Viagens Interplanetarias series. It was first published under the title "Getaway on Krishna" in the magazine Ten Story Fantasy in the issue for Spring 1951.
The possibility of life-forms being based on "alternative" biochemistries is the topic of an ongoing scientific discussion, informed by what is known about extraterrestrial environments and about the chemical behaviour of various elements and compounds. It is of interest in synthetic biology and is also a common subject in science fiction.