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Retro-Rockets sterling silver jewelry is inspired by the imagery of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Retro-Rockets™ Space Jewelry captures the excitement and adventure of a time when space exploration was confined to the imagination!

Please browse our complete in-house jewelry line of Sterling silver pins, pendants, and earrings with Swarovski garnet crystal flame, orange cubit zirconia, or abalone accents. The sleek designs of our Retro-Rockets will delight and engage any science fiction fan. We will also be writing about science fiction culture and news as well as all the latest big news in real life rocketry.

 

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Arrival Review

Harry Topley

We finally got to see Arrival. We were not disappointed.

We've been wanting to see the new Sci-fi flick "Arrival" since we first saw the trailers. The combination of a unique plot and some powerful alien imagery had us appropriately excited, but we still weren't sure where this film would dare to take us. The journey ended up being very cerebral and just a little bit surreal. Our greatest thrills in the film came from the aliens and their ship(s); the design work there was brilliant. The crux of the film which has been teased in the trailer, the hidden win for every xenobiologist and real space exploration geek, is that rather than reach for the easy plot fix and busting out the universal translation device, the main character is charged with translation. How do you start talking with a thing you share nothing in common with?

The film approaches this brilliantly with a beautifully complex alien written language. The movie has a timely message about the underpinnings of communication, and how the languages we speak can influence the way we see the world. The latter is a scientific theory that has been gaining tremendous steam in social sciences. While we would love to have gotten a glimpse of an alien home world, we were just as happy to experience an alien view of ours. While "Arrival" did a spectacular job of taking a harder look at how a first encounter could play out, we did have to take an insulin shot for the emotional aspect of the plot, that was just too sweet, but there has to be something for people who don't get excited for a pure science movie.