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Article: Director Of PR: Titanic honcho James Cameron has some advice for NASA on how to both seduce and educate a jaded public.(Soapbox/Science Friction: The Marketing And Mangling Of Science In Popular Culture)(Review; Column)(Movie Review)
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- Popular Science
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Byline: Gregory Mone
After exuberantly declaring himself king of the world at the 1998 Oscars, you'd think James Cameron might sit back, relax, and survey his kingdom. Instead, having conquered Hollywood, the Terminator/Titanic auteur has been busily turning his passion, salesmanship and eye for the spectacular to the worthy end of securing nothing less than the future of science and exploration.
It's not an outrageous leap, actually. Cameron has been a science buff since his childhood in Kapukasing, Ontario (he once sent a few doomed mice over Niagara Falls in a homebuilt submersible). Since dispatching his first remotely operated vehicles down to the ...