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Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still), the Glossary

Gort is a fictional humanoid robot that appeared first in the 1951 20th Century Fox American science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still and later in its 2008 remake.^[1]

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Fictional humanoid robots
Film characters introduced in 1951
Science fiction characters
Science fiction weapons

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930.

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Carnegie Science Center

The Carnegie Science Center, soon to be The Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center, is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games.

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Edmund H. North

Edmund Hall North (March 12, 1911 – August 28, 1990) was an American screenwriter who shared an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay with Francis Ford Coppola in 1970 for their script for Patton.

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Electromagnetic pulse

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), also referred to as a transient electromagnetic disturbance (TED), is a brief burst of electromagnetic energy.

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Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Farewell to the Master

"Farewell to the Master" is a science fiction short story by American writer Harry Bates.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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General Atomics MQ-1 Predator

The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator (often referred to as the Predator drone) is an American remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) built by General Atomics that was used primarily by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Gray goo

Gray goo (also spelled as grey goo) is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also everything else) on Earth while building many more of themselves, a scenario that has been called ecophagy.

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Harry Bates (writer)

Hiram Gilmore "Harry" Bates III (October 9, 1900 – September 1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer.

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Humanoid

A humanoid (from English human and -oid "resembling") is a non-human entity with human form or characteristics.

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Humanoid robot

A humanoid robot is a robot resembling the human body in shape.

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Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Klaatu is a fictional humanoid alien character best known from his appearances in the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still and its 2008 remake. Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still) are film characters introduced in 1951.

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Klaatu barada nikto

"Klaatu barada nikto" is a phrase that originated in the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still.

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Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.

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Law enforcement

Law enforcement is the activity of some members of government who act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, investigating, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules and norms governing that society.

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List of fictional robots and androids

This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium.

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Lock Martin

Joseph Lockard "Lock" Martin Jr. (October 12, 1916 – January 19, 1959) was an American performer afflicted with giantism.

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Museum of Pop Culture

The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture.

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Nanorobotics

Nanoid robotics, or for short, nanorobotics or nanobotics, is an emerging technology field creating machines or robots, which are called nanorobots or simply nanobots, whose components are at or near the scale of a nanometer (10−9 meters).

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.

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Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman (born February 24, 1959) is an American film critic who has been chief film critic for Variety magazine since May 2016, a title he shares with.

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Patricia Neal

Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Replica

A replica is an exact (usually 1:1 in scale) copy or remake of an object, made out of the same raw materials, whether a molecule, a work of art, or a commercial product.

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Robot

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.

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Robot Hall of Fame

The Robot Hall of Fame, established by Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, honors significant robots in science, society, and technology.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.

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Science Fiction Studies

Science Fiction Studies (SFS) is an academic journal founded in 1973 by R. D. Mullen.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Syfy

Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gort_(The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still)

Also known as Gnut, Gort (fictional robot).

Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still), the Glossary

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See also

Fictional humanoid robots

Film characters introduced in 1951

Science fiction characters

Science fiction weapons

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