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Some blue-collar space workers detect a strange transmission from an unknown planetoid, and their ship’s A.I. decides to wake them from hyper-sleep to investigate, because the ship’s A.I is definitely on their side (after all, Mother knows best).
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
Two of the planetoids are made of bone, suggesting death; another pair are translucent bowls or spheres filled with fluid, perhaps amniotic.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
The central conflict of Rebel Moon revolves around wheat, specifically the crop grown by hardy human settlers on the rocky planetoid Veldt in the first film, arriving this Dec. 22.
—EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
Earth formed right along with everything else as particles joined to form clumps and then boulders and planetoids.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
When Ripley crash-lands on the planetoid along with one xenomorph running loose and a another one growing inside her, the monks regard her as a kind of witch.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
Ward imagined a sort of space monastery populated by an all-male religious order that used futuristic technology only insofar as necessary to sustain life support on their artificial planetoid, which was patterned on 10th-century Earth, complete with artificial lakes and wheatfields.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
There is evidence that infant Earth was struck by a large planetoid called Theia.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2021
That said, 2001 FO32's path will present astronomers with a rare opportunity to closely observe the planetoid because 1.25 million miles is still relatively close in astronomical terms.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2021
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
Two of the planetoids are made of bone, suggesting death; another pair are translucent bowls or spheres filled with fluid, perhaps amniotic.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
The central conflict of Rebel Moon revolves around wheat, specifically the crop grown by hardy human settlers on the rocky planetoid Veldt in the first film, arriving this Dec. 22.
—EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
Earth formed right along with everything else as particles joined to form clumps and then boulders and planetoids.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
When Ripley crash-lands on the planetoid along with one xenomorph running loose and a another one growing inside her, the monks regard her as a kind of witch.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
Ward imagined a sort of space monastery populated by an all-male religious order that used futuristic technology only insofar as necessary to sustain life support on their artificial planetoid, which was patterned on 10th-century Earth, complete with artificial lakes and wheatfields.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
There is evidence that infant Earth was struck by a large planetoid called Theia.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2021
That said, 2001 FO32's path will present astronomers with a rare opportunity to closely observe the planetoid because 1.25 million miles is still relatively close in astronomical terms.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2021
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“Planetoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/planetoid. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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