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Robotech and Half-understood Riddles of Space and Time

When I was a teenager, I used to like a TV series: Robotech – First Generation.


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What a fantastic idea: life in a starship, having many jet fighters in deep space, and also romances between the characters: in particular between Rick and Lisa. Back there, Lisa Hayes was a new and different character for me: solemn, intelligent and dedicated. Not like many other female characters that I had seen before. And more surprisingly, she wasn't changed in the end (like the girl in Grease (1978)).

I've recently read its novelized version: This passage was little breathtaking:

“2012 … You remember sitting on the backyard swing, hands tightly gripping the galvanised chains, slender arms extended and head tossed all the way back, gazing up into the immeasurable depths of that black magic, teasing your young mind with half-understood riddles of space and time.”

And suddenly, I remembered all my passion for stars, Einstein's theory of space and time, astronomy and my dream of working in NASA. I recalled all those nights that I stayed awake and worked on the telescope.

The book was written in 1994: it foretells 2012. But I'm not any more on my backyard swing, do not look any more into that endless black magic and still do not understand those theories entirely!

P.S. There is an exceptional and very talented astrophotographer who I used to follow his outstanding photos eagerly: Oshin Zakarian.


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