Shane Petagna Humanities/Fine Arts

  Star Trek Presentation Script Black Hole: One of the things that fascinated me about watching the 2009 film was the use of black holes as plot devices. Completely by surprise, the audience finds out that events from the future are driving the conflict in the present day for the younger Spock. While they cannot be artificially created like in the movie with the use of red matter, there are accuracies to black holes in the real world. First, time dilation is a real thing that occurs within black holes. Regarding Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, time can shift based on location in a gravity field. Black holes have an immense gravitational pull, so if you were to be sucked into one, moments would pass for you without aging while years have passed in the world we know. The same thing happens between Spock and Nero. This event causes an alternate reality, which I will get into on the next slide, but also breaks one of the founding rules of time travel; that is what black holes are; v...

  Star Trek Notes Nyota Uhura was revolutionary First interracial kiss in TV The first contact between humans and Vulcans The ship USS Kelvin is immediately under attack by Romulans 223304 They kill the old commander Captain kirk’s wife is having a kid He goes down with the ship Jim is a bad kid and it looks like they have robocops Vulcans are nerds, the kid Spock is half human and Vulcan Grown-up Spock rejects the Vulcan way The movie moves very quick Jim is still arrogant but Starfleet wants him to enlist Weird to see Karl Urban with an American accent because he’s great in The Boys Zoe Saldana being roommates with a green character is ironic This Spock seems to have more personality than the one from 1966 If there isn’t a Russian character in the first one Chechov seems like a waste of a character Spock and Uhura have a relationship contrary to the original where you told us she kissed Kirk Time Travel?! Giant monsters on Delta Bega Runs into Spock from 129 ...

My team and I took the side of the red pill during our class debate. Just as the movie explores, both pills and their pros and cons are detailed throughout the plot. The central idea of the red pill is freedom. With great power comes great responsibility, and with greater risk comes greater reward. Freedom from the matrix results in more power for Neo, as Morpheus, Trinity, and other members of the crew had discovered.  However, the foundation of Team Blue Pill's argument against the red pill was built upon already having a happy life inside the matrix, one that was not filled with danger. The matrix had all of the things we know in life today, and that would be enough for them.  One of the biggest flaws I find in this reasoning is that knowing what the other side of reality brings, how could one think that a life inside the matrix is one that is lived to the fullest. Neo still had struggles when he was Thomas Anderson, working a basic office job where he still needed to confi...

Matrix Notes My side: Red Pill   ·      Trinity is super human, she works for/with Morpheus ·      The agents going after her have the same physical abilities ·      They can travel through phone lines ·      Neo is the informant ·      “Follow the white rabbit” ·      Dujour is the white rabbit ·      Neo’s real name is Thomas Anderson and he works at a software company ·      The agents capture him while he is standing on the edge of the building? ·      They know everything about him just as Morpheus and Trinity do ·      The matrix is a disguise of the truth that everyone is a slave ·      Red pill: stay in wonderland and see how far the rabbit hole goes ·      Neo takes the red pill...

·      Not sure when the movie is set but definitely in the future ·      Giving a robot child life  the first connection to Pinocchio ·      Monica plays once upon a dream and reading a story to her son in a coma ·      Monica doesn’t like the idea of taking in a replacement child in the robot, but can’t get over how real it looks ·      Child is Very obedient ·      Also stares and just watches what Monica is doing ·      Robots not having to eat makes dinner time very awkward ·      David Calls monica “mommy” as she tries to shut him down   ·      Martin gets out of his coma and is living in the house now ·      Teddy use to be Martin’s toy ·      Martin has resentment towards David like any new sibling wou...

·      Replicants are robots that are identical to humans but are used as slaves ·      Blade Runners are instructed to kill any remaining replicants in “retirements” ·      The replicants seem to have awkward responses, very unsure of themselves in terms of emotion ·      The replicants are designed with different purposes; a select few have come back to earth and are interested in the Tyrell Corp. ·      Replicants only have a 4-year life span ·      “more human than human” ·      The replicants are becoming more advanced ·      J.F. Sebastian ·      The new replicants, like Rachael, are now being implanted with memories ·      Pris (a replicant) runs into JF Sebastian, a genetic creator and toymaker ·      Incredi...

     In trying to have a conversation with Siri on my iPhone, I found it to be very difficult. Apple’s virtual assistant has nothing close to the personality that HAL 9000 did in 2001: A Space Odyssey.        I remember when Siri and other search engines came out and it was a craze about how you could talk to a machine, and it would talk back to you. I’m not exactly sure about all the evolutionary changes that Siri has gone through in the decade-plus they have been active, as they told me they started working as an assistant on October 4, 2011; the bottom line is that Siri is so boring now as they don’t even talk to me anymore.      I’m not sure if there is a setting I need to change, but I was extremely disappointed by my interaction with Siri. Perhaps other tech companies have simply caught up with voice-to-text and artificial intelligence having voices, and Apple didn’t feel like programming it anymore. All the questions I asked Siri ...