#sci-fi explosion

[lithiumandsushi]

#akira #cyberpunk #retro anime #explosion #sci fi #animation #80s

[scipunk]

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

#the lawnmower man #cyberpunk aesthetic #virtual reality #cyberpunk #cybernetics #90s #90s aesthetic #sci fi #scifi #boomer shooter #cyberpunk movies #cyberpunk film #scifi movies #explosion #artificial intelligence #90s sci fi #scifi aesthetic #gifs #gifset

[theactioneer]

Virtual Combat (Andrew Stevens, 1995)

#don the dragon wilson #helicopter #explosion #90s #action movie #sci fi #direct to video #gif

[jpitha]

Risk Tolerance

Humans have an unusually high risk tolerance among the galaxy's sapients. Watching a human operate their own equipment can be truly something to behold (from a safe distance).

Perhaps their utter indifference to death and dismemberment developed as a result of evolutionary pressures on their planet. Among worlds that support sapient life, theirs is unusually competitive.

Or it could just be cultural.

Griz'ek and Summer Breeze were sitting in a cafe, enjoying their evening meal when two humans sprinted past them. Remembering the Confederation's second rule when living and working with humans (if they're running away from something, you run too) Griz and Summer jumped out of their seats and took off after them.

As soon as Griz and Summer started after the humans, they heard the alarm. One of the ships on the docking ring had an overspeed alarm, it's hooting trill making it very clear that something was very wrong.

The humans passed the pressure door for the docking ring, and a small crowd trotted after them.

One of the humans, a male Griz thought, looked down the hall worried, "Is that everyone? Station! Is anyone left on the docking ring?"

"I don't detect anyone within the confines of the docks. Sealing doors." The pressure doors came down with a muffled slam. A moment later there was a thump as the stricken ship was ejected from the docking ring, and then the windows in the hall went white from the flash a split second before the anti-glare shields darkened the images.

The female human looked to the other. "Okay, okay you were right. adding a 3% solution of telmurian gas caused it to overspeed."

"What did I tell you?" Summer could have sworn the second human looked smug, but they weren't completely sure about human body language. "I said that the telmurian gas was much too volatile. It was never going to work"

"Well, yes, I see that now Jamie. What do you recommend then?"

Jamie nodded his head. "We should have increased the outer compensator allowance by 10 microns."

The female human rolled her eyes. "That would cause an unacceptable amount of coke buildup and you know it. If it was that easy, the Confederation would have done it already!"

Finally, Griz'ek spoke up. "I'm sorry, but what happened?"

Jamie and the other human looked over, and with a realization that they had an audience, they looked sheepish. "Oh, I'm sorry. Mary here-:" Jamie gestured "-thought that if we injected a 3% solution of telmurian gas into the engines we'd get a stable 15% increase in drive output."

Summer Breeze's feathers rippled concern. "But, telmurian gas is highly dangerous! It's downright explosive. Why would you mix it into the drive beam?"

Mary looked defiant. "It would have worked if the Remlar Drive Yards knew how to make an engine. Human thrusters are always overbuilt by a factor of two or three. It would have been fine if the injection chamber came from Niven." She looks at Jamie. "The next ship we buy is 100% human made."

Summer Breeze couldn't help themselves. Their feathers puffed out and they gestured angrily. "You tried injecting a known explosive gas into the drive beam and though it would make it work better?"

Mary looks surprised. "Yes? How else do you gain efficiencies? Sure, sometimes it explodes, but other times you get a Flip drive."

Humans tended to use their own domestically developed Flip drive to travel between the stars. It was quite a bit faster than the Confederation's FTL Warp, but most other sapients considered it much too unstable to use.

Griz looked at the humans with awe. "But, your ship was destroyed."

Jamie shrugged. "We'll get another, and everyone is fine. Chalk it up to lessons learned." He looked out the window. "Hey Station, anyone get hurt?"

"No Jamie, there was no damage other than your ship - which was completely destroyed. The ejection systems worked perfectly."

Jamie smiled at Griz and Summer. "See? No harm done."

Summer couldn't stand it anymore. "NO HARM DONE HE SAYS. HE HAS NO SHIP!" Summer's feathers won't stop rippling up and down.

Griz puts his tentacle around his friend. "Come on Summer, let's leave the humans to their own insanity and go get some drinks-" He glares at Jamie and Mary "-on the other side of the station. Summer Breeze continues on, "THEY JUST THOUGHT IT WAS FINE TO ADD AN EXPLOSIVE TO THEIR DRIVE JUST TO SEE WHAT IT WOULD DO!"

#humans are deathworlders #humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans are space capybaras #writing #sci fi writing #humans and aliens #humans solve problems with explosions

[creese]

Glitch in Time by Michael Creese

#astronaut #astronauta #astronaute #space #spaceman #sci-fi #scifi #dystopia #dystopian #pop culture #space art #stars #galaxy #supernova #nebula #explosion #art #glitch #time #dark art #gothic #goth #michael creese #oil painting #cool #color #black #night #shiny #sparkle

[csleko]

Oops. I blew up the BIONICLE planet.

Again.

ANOTHER remake of a thing I did in 2005. Like, damn. 14-year-old Leko was REALLY getting into this stuff AND not being very good at it!

In this case, it was actually my first ever Flash animation. Well, the first one that was actually intended to be a thing and not just screwing around with random things to figure out the program.

I was firmly ensconced in the BIONICLE fandom from 2003 to around 2008, so pretty much everything I made during that time period was BIONICLE fanart of some type or another, and posted to BZPower's artwork forum.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie was also coming out that particular year. Or might have already when I made this. Point is: I wanted to try recreating the exploding Earth from the trailer, and I wanted to be able to post it to a BIONICLE fanart forum, so instead of Earth I blew up Aqua Magna and the island of Mata Nui.

You MIGHT think I could have gotten away with just downloading a high resolution render of the island and slapping it on a sphere to make the planet in the remade animation.

And you'd be right. I COULD have done that.

But you'd also be wrong, because I didn't do that. I found a high res official render, imported it into Blender, traced the outline onto a heavily subdivided plane in sculpt mode, filled it in with more sculpting, vertex painted the textures onto it, then placed it beneath another plane with the ocean texture on it so the island would clip through.

Oh yeah, the actual animation was a lot of fun to figure out. Really got to play around with physics and particles after previously devoting so much time and effort to finding ways to avoid them. And the motion blur really adds a lot to the relatively simple effects.

This might be my favorite remake I've ever done, and I don't know if I'll top it.

#3d model #blender #3d render #animation #video #sci fi #BIONICLE #LEGO #space #planet #explosion #CGI #Cycles #Flash #remake

[vampirepunks]

Since Kojima’s been saying that the Death Stranding film is going to tell a story that can only be told through the film medium, I really hope it’s a prequel to the game. There are a lot of background events represented through text and dialogue that wouldn’t translate well to a video game format on their own.

It’d be really cool to see the start of the Stranding, Victor and Igor’s backstory (as seen in the DS novelization), snippets from Sam’s childhood/early years with Bridges, the development and construction of the chiral network, and most of the events described in Higgs’ journals.

Coffin’s decision to leave her family behind, start a terrorist uprising by radicalizing the porters who unknowingly abetted human sacrifices by delivering BBs for the chiral network, and the decision to adopt Higgs as her protégé? That story alone would be worthy of a film.

#just thoughts #i would kill to see little baby Peter #and witness his Becoming™️ from that scared kid into the man we know and love #i know that ‘new world with a new sky’ moment would be POWERFUL #and what of his porter partner who died? what did that relationship look like? how close were they? #what of his relationship with Fragile after Coffin died? having a best friend who probably never saw his face? #not to mention his tragic rise to power and the secrecy that came with it. having to kill to maintain his DOOMS because people needed him #like he was handpicked as the inheritor of a rebellion against Bridges/the UCA and suddenly ended up with a LOT of responsibility when- #-Coffin died. and suddenly he was living a double life to care for and protect the people of the Western region #and those folks responded by calling him King Midas. naming him after a folk hero whose defining tragedy is being powerful but alone #everything he touched turn to gold but it’s so hard to form connections when you can’t shake hands #(sorry not sorry lol) #it’s such a complicated and nuanced backstory & so many people don’t even know about it because it’s in hard-to-reach texts & a side quest #idk I just think it’d make a really good movie. bonus points if it canonized him being a repatriate #it’d make a really good sci-fi political thriller/horror #i would vaporize in my seat if it cold opened with higgs saying 'once there was an explosion...' but now i'm just being self-indulgent #death stranding #death stranding movie #death stranding a24 #higgs monaghan #logan.txt

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Don Dixon

#Don Dixon #art #artwork #Illustration #painting #asteroid #landscape #impact #explosion #science fiction #sci fi art #sci fi #sci-fi #sci-fi art

[romanowork]

#cosmic horror #alien planet #alien worlds #burning chrome #poison gas #mission failure #retro sci fi #lost in space #astronauts #explosion #chemical reaction #melting #vintage ai #James Webb Space Telescope #deathcore #surrealism #NASA #Metal Hurlant #nebula #psychedelia #fever dream

[luumastudio]

#scifi #sci fi #midjourney #ai art #art #ai artwork #nuclear bomb #explosion #retro scifi #midjourney art #scifi art

[zuzannasworlds]

Attack on The Desert City (new version), 05.2023

#zuzanna #zuza's world #flawiusz #desert city #sci fi #science fiction #fiction #sci fi art #art #concept art #space art #sci-fi art #fantasy art #character concept #explosion art #other planet #digital art #sztuka #desert planet #spaceship explosion

[turojo]

Nerds.

#dash. » .005 ✦ #crack. » .004 ✦ #mobile mode #he doesn’t like Star Wars or most sci-fi surprisingly LMAOO #‘ the physics are physically impossible 🙄 explosions can’t happen in space because it’s a vaccum and doesn’t have oxygen- #…but he’ll sit down for gundam transformers and cowboy bebop

[ivebeentotheforest]

Dune: Part 2

Trailer 2 (left)

Trailer 3 (right)

#my gifs #dune part two #dune part 2 #dune movie #action movies #timothée chalamet #denis villeneuve #chani #paul atreides #sci fi and fantasy #explosion #the force #metaphysical #color grading #film editing #trailer cutting #film advertising #dune 2024

[weenie-moon]

#my gifs #urgh didnt see the black bars before uploading #red dwarf #flash #kryten #kryten red dwarf #sci fi #science fiction #explosion

[jpitha]

Humans Solve Problems With Explosions

Frank and Mel'iarr are sitting together in the common area of the Starbase, chatting. They have been fast friends ever since they were paired together on the Starbase Fire Brigade. Mel was fascinated about humans, and Frank was willing to indulge him when he asked questions... most of the time.

Mel'iarr puts down his tea. "Frank, the Humans have been in space a long time right?"

Frank nods and sips his cocoa. "That's what they tell us in school."

"So that means you've probably tried just about every method of propulsion in space, yeah?"

"Actually, yes! This was one of my favorite topics as a kid. I must have absorbed everything I could find about it."

"Oh, so you could talk to me about your historical propulsion systems! Do you mind if we talk about them?"

Frank looks at his friend, surprised. "I'd love to, but why?"

"To settle a bet." Mel'iarr picks up his chamomile tea and glances at it. With a flick of his ears - like a shrug - he tosses his tea back, finishing it. "You didn't jump to thrusters immediately and I know humans can be really inventive, so I assume you had some unusual ideas you tried out."

"Hmm. Okay, how about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket?"

Mel'iarr chokes on his tea. Frank jumps up and pats his back. Mel holds up a hand and sputters. "The what?"

"Oh yeah, it's a great one! Take nuclear fuel, dissolve it in water, and then concentrate it to just under criticality - that's the point where fission takes place - and then squirt it into a chamber where it can achieve criticality and bam! Fission. Now, shoot that now superheated steam and heat from the reaction out the back, and you're making thrust."

Unconsciously, Mel'iarr leans back in his chair. "But, that's just sounds like a nuclear bomb that-"

"-That's going off all the time out the back yeah. Worked really well." As he talks, Frank becomes more animated. He's gesturing and his eyes are shining. Mel'iarr's tail flicks worriedly. "It was tough to get the pipes lined up correctly to not cause an early criticality incident, but we figured that out - mostly - before we started using them. Only a few blew up, but when they did, hoo boy. You could see it practically everywhere in the system."

Mel'iarr ears flatten. "Wow. Um, okay. That was a bit more... intense than I figured. Do you have another one that's less..." He thought for a moment. "Insane?"

Frank looks off into the middle distance. "Oh! I know one! It's an old one, but I always liked imaging using it. It's so old that it predates us leaving Earth entirely. An Orion Engine."

Mel'iarr relaxes. "That doesn't sound so-"

Franks gesturing nearly knocks over his cocoa. "I love this one, it's so simple and elegant. You just make hundreds and hundreds of small nuclear bombs, shoot them out the back one at a time, detonate them, and ride the pressure wave forward and repeat!"

Mel'iarr's fur poofs out angrily and his ears flick forward. "No. You're lying. You're just making that up."

"I'm not! Look!" Frank takes a moment to search on his pad, and brings up an archive video to show Mel.

While they're talking, Mel'iarr's other human friend, James walks by. James and Mel'iarr work together in Environmental Processing. With the Starbase's low population, Frank knows him too, but they're not especially good friends. Mel'iarr gestures to the human. "James! You have to help me!"

James looks down and the small, worried K'laxi. "Of course Mel, what is it? What's wrong?"

"Pen'men said that I couldn't find a problem that humans don't solve with explosions. I was speaking with Frank - from the Fire Brigade - and he started describing old human space propulsion systems that make me think that humans solve every problem with explosions."

James raised an eyebrow. "I mean space propulsion is by definition explosion based. That's a wild place to start, Mel. But okay, we can think of something." As they're thinking, Kerry walks by. She works in the infirmary and plays pickleball with James. "Kerry! Give me a problem that we don't solve with an explosion."

"Uh, a fire." Kerry offers.

Mel'iarr shakes his head sadly. "No, you've used explosions to blast oxidizer away from a fire, putting it out."

Kerry blinks, impressed. "Woah, neat! Hmm. cooking?"

Mel'iarr's ears droop. "There's a ancestors cursed grain that explodes when you cook it!"

"Oh popcorn, right." James sits down next to Frank and Mel and gestures for Kerry to join them.

"Oh! I've got one. Negotiation! Frank crosses his arms and looks satisfied.

Mel'iarr gives him a look. "I thought of that. What about intimidating the other side with an explosive based show of force?"

"Damn! I thought I had it there. Okay okay...." Frank picks up his cocoa, long gone cold, and takes a sip.

James casts his head around the room. "What about welding?"

"Welding?"

"Yeah, that's done with heat and electricity, but not explosions."

"I'm sorry James, I couldn't help overhearing." The Starbase AI cuts in "But humans have welded with explosions. It's a known method in welding two dissimilar metals in extreme environments."

Frank sits up and looks over at the Starbase interface screen. "Woah, really? That's so cool!"

"Frank, focus please." Mel'iarr says. "We're looking for non-explosive solutions."

"What about medical issues?" Kerry says. "There can't be a lot of call for explosions there."

Frank nods. "Hmm, now we might be onto something. What do you think Starbase?"

"Searching."

A moment goes by and Mel'iarr allows himself a moment's hope that he has finally found a solution that doesn't involve explosions.

"Results found. Mel'iarr, the humans use Nitroglycerin - an explosive - to treat heart disease."

All of Mel'iarr's fur poofs out in surprise. "THEY DO WHAT?"

"It helps prevent chest pains as a result of heart disease according to my records."

Kerry holds up her hands. "Wait. Wait wait wait. If we're counting nitroglycerins then we have to count electricity which can be generated by explosions."

"How in the name of my Ancestors do you generate electricity from explosions? Mel'iarr slumps back into his chair, defeated.

"We don't as much now, but electricity is generated from spinning a magnetic field, right? We had reciprocating engines that worked off of the explosion of refined hydrocarbons for hundreds of years."

James looks at Mel and narrows his eyes. "How did you do it at first Mel? You can't tell me you never developed reciprocating engines."

Mel'iarr Looks up at James. "No, we did, but they're different, they use temperature differential. Starbase, what's the human word for them?"

"Stirling engines, Mel'iarr. Humans did develop them, but they decided that the exploding way was preferable."

Mel'iarr puts his head in his hands. "I don't know what's worse! That you have an exploding solution to every problem or that you both think they're all really neat!

"I can't help it Mel'iarr, explosions are cool." James looks kindly at his friend.

Kerry agrees. "It's probably why it's used as a solution so often."

After the evening meal on that same day, Mel'iarr walks over to Pen'men while she's on her shift in Traffic Control, and silently hands her some currency.

Pen'men looks up from her console and stares at Mel'iarr.

Mel'iarr shakes his head. "You were right. They solve every problem with explosions."

"Told you."

#humans are deathworlders #humans are space orcs #writing #sci fi writing #humans are space capybaras #humans are space oddities #humans and aliens #the k'laxiverse #humans solve problems with explosions #jpitha

[fatmagic]

#Deadly Instincts #gif #horror #sci-fi #explosion