Meta

Cowboy Bebop the series, Yoko Kanno, style points.

Space Western

Shades of Firefly.

Gate Disaster

Shades of Seveneves and Deep Impact. Meteor impacts are becoming a recurring theme!

Settling Mars

Biodomes, marscrete, martian soil, regolith, constructive impacts. Terraforming. Biodomes.

Weather Control

China! Weather control before and after the Beijing Olympics. Cold and warm cloud seeding. Chemicals. Super-frozen, uncrystallized. water.