A model to other writers of hard science fiction, Clarke postulates advanced technologies without resorting to flawed engineering concepts ( as Jules Verne sometimes did ) or explanations grounded in incorrect science or engineering, or taking cues from trends in research and engineering ( which dates some of Larry Niven's novels ).

The Outsiders in Larry Niven's Known Space universe are cryogenic creatures based on liquid helium.

* A world in Larry Niven's Known Space stories.

For example a group at MIT concluded that the planet Mesklin in Hal Clement's 1953 novel Mission of Gravity would have had a sharp edge at the equator, and a Florida high-school class calculated that in Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld the topsoil would have slid into the seas in a few thousand years.

Larry Niven's novels frequently make use of the stasis field concept, which he also popularized.

Larry Niven is also known in science fiction fandom for " Niven's Law ": There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.

#* Guide to Larry Niven's Ringworld ( 1994, with Kevin Stein )

The Kzinti " crossed-over " in to the Star Trek universe in the animated episode " The Slaver Weapon ", which was written by Larry Niven and is adapted from Niven's own short story " The Soft Weapon ".

* A Mars Direct scheme is used in Larry Niven's novel Rainbow Mars.

* In Larry Niven's harsh Known Space stories ( 1964-) Mars is a backwater bypassed by humans in their rush to the mineral wealth of the Asteroid Belt.

* The title Larry Niven's Rainbow Mars ( 1999 ) alludes to Robinson's three-colored Mars trilogy, and the plot concerns a time machine that is used to visit ancient Mars.

* In Larry Niven's Known Space fictional universe ( 1964 ), neutronium is actual neutron star core material.

The Ringworld science fiction role-playing game was published by Chaosium in 1984, using the Basic Role-Playing system for its rules and Larry Niven's Ringworld novels as a setting.

" Known Space " ( also the commonly used title for Larry Niven's future history science fiction series ) is about 80 light years in diameter with 10, 000 stars, including Human Space ( 40 light years diameter, 524 stars in 357 systems, 30 billion humans, ⅔ on Earth ), as well as neighbouring Alien civilisations.

The Ringworld role-playing game box set was titled " Larry Niven's Ringworld: Roleplaying Adventure Beneath the Great Arch ", referring to the way the Ringworld looked from its interior surface.

The game was inspired by such classic science fiction stories as the Dumarest Saga series by E. C. Tubb, the Foundation stories of Isaac Asimov, H. Beam Piper's Space Viking, Larry Niven's Known Space, Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium, Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League and several other works of science fiction literature.

* Tree of Life appears in Larry Niven's Known Space novels

A hull material that gets stronger with pressure in the film The Core was nicknamed unobtainium, but the concept under different names can be seen in the anti-gravity material cavorite and the super-strong material scrith from Larry Niven's novel Ringworld, which requires a tensile strength on the order of the forces binding an atomic nucleus together.

* Larry Niven's Known Space series

* The Man-Kzin Wars: A shared universe based on the Kzinti Conflicts in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, featuring writers personally selected by Niven

** Amalgamated Regional Militia, a fictional group from Larry Niven's Known Space universe

Those aspirations are remembered in science fiction such as Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Joanna Russ's 1968 novel Picnic on Paradise, and Larry Niven's Known Space stories.

* Nessus ( Pierson's Puppeteer ), an alien character in Larry Niven's Known Space books, of the species Pierson's Puppeteer

For example, Larry Niven's fictional universe Known Space has an approximately 135 year period in which Niven allows other authors to write stories about the Man-Kzin Wars.

* Larry Niven's " The Slaver Weapon " in Star Trek: The Animated Series, adapted from his own short story " The Soft Weapon ".

The first endorsers of " The Weapon " were Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, who were prominently featured in a Converse commercial set in Bird's hometown of French Lick, Indiana in 1986.

* Larry Niven's short story " The Deadlier Weapon " features a carjacking.

* Johnson, Larry, " World Vision's New Weapon ," Fund Raising Management, June 1993, p. 22.

* Johnson, Larry, " World Vision's New Weapon ," Fund Raising Management, June 1993, p. 22.

Downtown Orlando's skyline can be seen in the films Passenger 57, Ernest Saves Christmas, D. A. R. Y. L., Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector, Lethal Weapon 3 ( doubled for Los Angeles ), and Miami Connection ( doubled for downtown Miami ).

After returning to Los Angeles the group recorded " The Train Song ", written during an increasingly infrequent songwriting session on the train and produced by 1950s R & B legends Larry Williams and Johnny " Guitar " Watson.

To this end, manager Jim Dickson instigated a loose session where the band recorded several honky tonk staples from their live act, contemporary pop covers in a countrified vein (" To Love Somebody ", " Lodi ", " I Shall Be Released ", " Honky Tonk Women "), and Larry Williams ' " Bony Moronie ".

And to compete with the Leisure Suit Larry style games that were also appearing, Infocom also came out with Leather Goddesses of Phobos in 1986, which featured " tame ", " suggestive ", and " lewd " playing modes, and that was notable for including among its " feelies " a " scratch-and-sniff " card with six odors that corresponded to six cues during the game.

* " The Magicks of Megas-tu ", by Larry Brody, sends the Enterprise to the center of the galaxy.

The Hollywood Reporter and the New York Times have referred to the Wachowskis as " Andy and Lana ( formerly Larry ) Wachowski ", and Deadline. com has referred to the duo as " Andy and Lana Wachowski.

The phrase was coined by Larry Sinclair, an engineer at Triple I ( Information International, Inc .), to express the idea that what the user sees on the screen is what the user gets on the printer while using the " page layout system ", a pre-press typesetting system first shown at ANPS in Las Vegas.

Moe is cast as " Moe Hailstone ", an Adolf Hitler-like character, with Curly playing a Hermann Göring character ( replete with medals ), and Larry a Ribbentrop-type ambassador.

Besser, noting how one side of Larry Fine's face seemed " calloused ", had a clause in his contract specifically prohibiting him from being hit too hard ( though this restriction was later lifted ).

One of Larry's trademarks is his manner of introducing himself: " Hi, my name is Larry ; Larry Laffer ", a reference to James Bond's introduction style, " My name is Bond ; James Bond.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

In 2008, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band classic " Ostrich Walk ", written by Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields, in a performance by Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer, was included on the soundtrack to the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

( Larry E. Matthews, " Dunbar Cave: The Showplace of the South ", 2011, ISBN 978-1-879961-41-8, 240 pages.

( Larry E. Matthews, " Dunbar Cave ", 2005, ISBN 1-879961-22-9 ).

* " Larry the Liquidator ", Other People's Money ( 1990 ) – A self-absorbed corporate raider " Larry the Liquidator " ( Danny DeVito ), sets his sights on New England Wire and Cable, a small-town business run by family patriarch Gregory Peck who is principally interested in protecting his employees and the town.

Also, Pressman has said that the character of Sir Larry Wildman was " modeled on Jimmy Goldsmith ", the famous Anglo-French billionaire and corporate-raider.

For " Top Hat, White Tie and Tails ", probably Astaire's most celebrated tap solo, the idea for the title song came from Astaire who described to Berlin a routine he had created for the 1930 Ziegfeld Broadway flop Smiles called " Say, Young Man of Manattan ," in which he gunned down a chorus of men – which included teenagers Bob Hope and Larry Adler – with his cane.

Larry Tye describes in his book, " The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of PR ", some situations in twentieth-century America where tobacco and alcohol companies used techniques to make certain behaviors more socially acceptable.