Imagine you're an astronaut on the International Space Station, it's a Saturday night and you want to watch a film on the new HD projector you usually use for conferences. But what film to choose, what to choose...
How about Gravity ?
According to US astronaut Scott Kelly , that actually happened last night.
Yes, a group of astronauts on the ISS watched a film about a group of astronauts struggling to survive on the ISS.
While you might think that's like watching Titanic on a cruise, or Snakes on a Plane as an inflight movie, researchers at the South Pole apparently really enjoy watching The Thing , a science fiction horror about an alien that attacks researchers at an isolated Antarctic base.
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