Written by Szentgyorgyi, Red is described as a neo-Western drama about the first human settlement on Mars and life on this new frontier, centering on the relationships between the town’s female sheriff, a doctor and a criminal. WME-repped Szentgyorgyi and Heller executive produce for Warner Bros. TV where Heller is under an overall deal.
A Soyuz rocket is set to lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2058 GMT (4:58 p.m. EDT). It will carry with a Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft with NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Russian commander Oleg Kotov and cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy on board. It will follow “an express six-hour journey to the space station, with docking to the Poisk module at 0248 GMT (10:58 p.m. EDT)” .
This SETI Institute talk combines two amazing developments of our day – the discovery of exoplanets and the development of giant telescopes. Jeff Kuhn of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii gives an excellent presentation (suitable for a wide audience) about The Colossus Project: Designing an optical/IR instrument to detect life outside the solar system:
This talk describes an effort to detect life, and even conduct a planetary census, in our cosmic neighborhood. I’ll describe some results from the Colossus group, an interdisciplinary science and engineering team, working to show how telescopes much larger than the TMT or EELT could be built today by relaxing some of the astronomical requirements of current “world’s largest telescope” projects.