Serenity
Sorry for no posts - things have just been nuts trying to get myself organised again! I can’t believe what two weeks away does…So this is just a quick post to recommend in the strongest terms possible going to see Serenity, a truly awesome movie. It’s a follow on from the TV series “Firefly”, by Joss Whedon (yes, the creator of Buffy - but there’s no correlation!) and is a really excellent sci-fi movie. Even if you’re not a sci-fi kind of person, I think it’s still got a lot to offer - the characters and script are wonderful, and the plot is very clever. You don’t need to have seen the series before, either - obviously, there is a lot of backstory you get, but the movie is standalone.
Best of all, the physics is pretty good! In particular, there’s no sound in space (sorry Star Wars fans!) (although they get around the audience’s expectations thereof by having the first scene with their ship entering the atmosphere of a planet 
There’s a couple of minor questions about the teraforming of moons, and why all planets are the same temperature no matter how far from the sun they are, but you migth argue that if they can produce artificial gravity, then this is a small issue? I won’t push that line of enquiry too far.
So yes, I highly recommend it, and now I’m going to try and do a last bit of work for the day.