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Some reference for me or anyone else who feels like building the Endurance. Nolan gets full points from me for using physical models in the movie. CG has it's place but it's not for EVERYTHING.
By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist.
Via Space.com
Full complement of crew now. Although Cooper and Amelia still look like they've just had a big argument.
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Long exposure fireworks shot (no PS, just Raw adjustments).
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My 1:500 LEGO model of the NASA long-range explorer "Endurance" from the movie Interstellar, rotating at 5.5 rpm to create an artifical gravity of 1g. It's an animation of the digital model done in Blender.
This was prompted by a comment from Thomus Bean that it would be neat to have a spinning model. But while the real model is attached to a stand right at the center of rotation, it's unfortunately not freely rotatable due to stability reasons. So I fired up Blender and did a little animation of the Endurance in space, using the exact rotation speed it has at normal operation. Of course the famous docking scene where it rotates at ~67 rpm would be a lot more interesting to recreate, but since that involves partially destroying the model as well as more intricate mise-en-scéne for my humble Blender abilities, I leave that for a future project.
Instructions for the Endurance can be found on Rebrickable.
Check out what's (who's) on the end of my big toe! A good example of this wonderful color of nail polish too!
If you'd like a Ranger of your own please support my Interstellar Ranger on Lego Ideas: ideas.lego.com/projects/90945
If you'd like a Ranger of your own please support my Interstellar Ranger on Lego Ideas: ideas.lego.com/projects/90945
October 17, 2000. Radiohead at Sears Theatre at the Air Canada Centre, Toronto.
Shot with a Canon Elph APS camera.
The iconic Ranger spacecraft from my favourite film of last year, Interstellar, lovingly recreated in Lego.
Here is Cooper helping Amelia back into the Ranger. I probably could have filled the bath tub... ahem, I mean my professional photography studio setup, with water to enhance the scene. But I didn't think of it until after!
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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 6 August 2025 using its Near-Infrared Spectrograph. The research team is analysing Webb’s data, with a preprint now available online. Webb is one of several space telescopes studying this comet, helping to reveal its size, physical properties, and chemical composition. For example, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s recently launched SPHEREx mission have also observed it. While the comet poses no threat to Earth, such observations support astronomers in their ongoing mission to find, track, and better understand objects in our Solar System.
[Image description: Three-panel infrared image of comet 3I/ATLAS taken by JWST on August 6, 2025. The left panel shows the overall IR image with a bright white core fading to red, orange, and blue. The center and right panels show flux maps highlighting CO₂ at 4.3μm and H₂O at 2.7μm, respectively, with insets showing spectral line profiles confirming molecular signatures.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. Cordiner (NASA-GSFC); CC BY 4.0
Fast, rugged, and compact, this 2120 Shelby-Mitsuoka model is the workhorse of the Interstellar Police Force.
Based on a much smaller civilian smartship, S-M's engineers laced most of the frame with self-reinforcing composite lattices capable of taking the thrust from an over-under pair of military torches.
As a result, the ship has become popular among law-makers and law-breakers alike. Some pirates even fly them in police colours, so confident in their speed that they'll risk the "accidents" occurring with increasing frequency when the ISPF inevitably corner them.
British postcard by Boomerang. Photo: Everett Collection.
With his spectacles and his Cockney accent, Michael Caine (1930) became an unusual but ultra cool star of the British cinema of the 1960s. He starred in memorable films like Alfie (1966), The Italian Job (1969), and Get Carter (1971). The lean and tall Brit branched out to Hollywood where his film choices often seemed dictated by his checkbook. Caine proved to be endurable and a new generation of film fans love him for his mentors and father figures in blockbusters like The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception (2010) and Interstellar (2014).
In 1930, Michael Caine was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen Frances Marie Micklewhite-Burchell, a cook and charlady, and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish-market porter. He has two brothers. Younger brother Stanley Caine appeared in at least three of Caine's films: Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Play Dirty (1969) and The Italian Job (1969). He did not know about his elder half-brother David until their mother died in 1989. For more than forty years, Caine's mother had paid periodic visits to a ‘cousin’ in a mental hospital. David suffered from epilepsy and lived till his death in 1992 in the hospital. Michael left school at 15 and took a series of working-class jobs before joining the British army and serving in Korea during the Korean War, where he saw combat. Upon his return to England the 20-years-old Caine gravitated toward the theater and got a job as an assistant stage manager. He adopted the name of Caine on the advice of his agent, taking it from a marquee of the Odeon Cinema that advertised The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk, 1954). In the years that followed he worked in more than 100 television dramas, with repertory companies throughout England and eventually in Lindsay Anderson's West End staging of Willis Hall's The Long and the Short and the Tall (1959). He was Peter O'Toole's understudy in that stage hit and took over the role when O'Toole left to make Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962). Caine's first film role was as one of the privates in Stanley Baker's platoon in the British war film A Hill in Korea (Julien Amyes, 1956). A big break came for Caine when he was cast in the Cockney stage comedy Next Time I'll Sing To You (1963). He was visited backstage by Stanley Baker, star of A Hill in Korea, who asked him for his upcoming film Zulu, a film Baker was producing and starring in. Zulu (Cy Endfield, 1964) is the epic retelling of a historic 19th-century battle in South Africa between British soldiers and Zulu warriors. Instead of being typecast as a low-ranking Cockney soldier, he played a snobbish, aristocratic officer. Zulu was a major success, but it was the role of the spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie, 1965) and the young womanizer in Alfie (Lewis Gilbert, 1966) that made Caine a major star. He epitomized the new breed of actor in mid-'60s England, the working-class bloke with glasses and a down-home accent. Some excellent films followed including his American debut Gambit (Ronald Neame, 1966) with Shirley MacLaine, the Harry Palmer spy film Funeral in Berlin (Guy Hamilton, 1966), the caper The Italian Job (Peter Collinson, 1969) with Noël Coward, Battle of Britain (Guy Hamilton, 1969), In de greep van de angst (1970), The Last Valley (1971) and especially the crime film Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971) and the mystery thriller Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1972) with Laurence Olivier, for which he earned his second Oscar nomination.
During the bigger part of the 1970s, Michael Caine seemed to take on roles in below-average films, simply for the money he could by then command. There were some gems amongst the dross, however. He gave a magnificent performance opposite Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975) and turned in a solid one as the commander of a Luftwaffe paratroop unit planning to kidnap Winston Churchill in The Eagle Has Landed (John Sturges, 1976). Caine also was part of an all-star cast in A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough, 1977), was part of the ensemble in the comedy California Suite (Herbert Ross, 1978), and slashed Angie Dickinson in the thriller Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980). Highlights during the 1980s were Educating Rita (Lewis Gilbert, 1983), earning him the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986), for which he won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He was not present at the Academy Awards ceremony because he was filming Jaws: The Revenge (Joseph Sargent, 1987), for which he was nominated for worst supporting actor at the 1988 Razzie awards. His other successful films were the war film Escape to Victory (John Huston, 1981), the Ira Levin thriller Deathtrap (Sidney Lumet, 1982), and the beautiful neo-noir mystery Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan, 1986) with Bob Hoskins. Caine was excellent as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992). In 1992, he also published the autobiography What's it all about? It was a decade later followed by The Elephant to Hollywood (2012). He was awarded the CBE (Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire) in the 1993 Queen's Honours List for his services to drama. Having by that time practically retired from acting on the big screen, he enjoyed a career resurgence in the late 1990s. He received a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the musical Little Voice (Mark Herman, 1998) and his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallström, 1999). In 2000, he was awarded a Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire. In the last decades, he often played mentors and father figures to younger characters in films. In every film Caine made with director Christopher Nolan, his character either assists, guides, trains or educates the protagonist. In The Prestige (2006), Caine portrayed a magician who teaches the main character the art of illusion. For Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy - Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - Caine played the supporting and nurturing butler Alfred Pennyworth to Bruce Wayne aka Batman (Christian Bale). For Inception (2010), Caine depicted the father of the main protagonist, Cobb, and aids him by recruiting one of his students. In Interstellar (2014), Caine portrays a professor/engineer, who invites and encourages the central character, Cooper, to lead an important space mission that will determine the future of planet earth. Among his other more recent films that have been widely acclaimed are the British/German drama Last Orders (Fred Schepisi, 2001) with Tom Courtenay, the parody Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach, 2002) as Austin’s father, the Graham Greene adaptation The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce, 2002) with Brendan Fraser, Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, ) and Pixar's Cars 2 (John Lasseter, 2011). In the remake of Sleuth (Kenneth Branagh, 2007), Caine took over the role Laurence Olivier played in the 1972 version and Jude Law played Caine's original role. Michael Caine married twice. In 1955, he married his first wife Patricia Haines. They divorced in 1958 and have one child, Dominique (aka Nikki). His current wife is Shakira Caine, whom he married in 1973. They have one daughter, Natasha. Caine has he has a granddaughter and two grandsons.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
Hardware on the 15 foot bubble chamber in the SiDet facility courtyard. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, IL.
My entry to the Interstellar Outpost Contest.
Knor Industries, well known for their military and civilian vehicles, are now offering an Outpost Bundle that includes:
the Knor RW starfighter, which with its rotating wings can land or take off on a dime; the Knor TX tanker truck, famous for its off road capabilities; the Knor SI comm station, equipped with the latest in communication technology; and the Knor RW landing pad that doubles as a storage area for the outpost. Take advantage of this great Bundle deal while you can!
The starfighter's wings rotate with a twist of the knob on top, to switch between flight and hover/landing mode; it also has a functional landing gear. The tanker truck has working steering (also operated by the knob on top) and 'suspension'. The comm station has a full interior and the landing pad doubles as a storage area.
See lots more pics here: brickbuilt.org/Outpost.php
Gave my tech three choices, including this one we used not too long ago. "Well, you know what I'm going to pick!" she said. I guess I do now.
An abstract view of deep space. The only thing done to photo here was add a black colour control point. I dragged it around to different colours on the screen until I got a pleasing result. Not the way it is supposed to be used.
The Black, white and Neutral control points are great tools of CaptureNX that enable you, with the aid of a Histogram, to find the darkest, lightest or neutral points in an image.
My entry to the Interstellar Outpost Contest.
Knor Industries, well known for their military and civilian vehicles, are now offering an Outpost Bundle that includes:
the Knor RW starfighter, which with its rotating wings can land or take off on a dime; the Knor TX tanker truck, famous for its off road capabilities; the Knor SI comm station, equipped with the latest in communication technology; and the Knor RW landing pad that doubles as a storage area for the outpost. Take advantage of this great Bundle deal while you can!
The starfighter's wings rotate with a twist of the knob on top, to switch between flight and hover/landing mode; it also has a functional landing gear. The tanker truck has working steering (also operated by the knob on top) and 'suspension'. The comm station has a full interior and the landing pad doubles as a storage area.
See lots more pics here: brickbuilt.org/Outpost.php