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io9New Star Wars 3-D Trilogy: A No-Hope
There’s a rumor floating around that George Lucas wants to produce another Star Wars trilogy, with Stephen Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola directing. Also it’s raining ice cream, Firefly is back, and I can fly. This rumor stems from MarketSaw which claims that the next trilogy hopes to shoot in stereoscopic 3D. But that’s not … Continued
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Chart Shows How Few Missions To Mars Succeeded
This chart, created by Bryan Christie Designs, is an amazing visualization of all the Mars missions – including data on how few of them actually succeeded in reaching their goals. The good news: Recent missions have a high success rate. I first spotted this chart on Laughing Squid, and it was created for IEEE’s special … Continued
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Spider Foreplay is Long — Or It’s Deadly
A recent study of the Australian redback spider found that males looking to mate must perform 100 minutes of courtship, including a dance, mixing his web with the female’s, and beating her abdomen. Males who fall short are devoured. [Discovery]
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Michael Caine Reveals His Inception Role, And Lost’s Emilie de Ravin Gets A Weird New Island Role
Michael Caine drops a huge Inception spoiler! Sam Raimi talks Venom! 2012’s ending revealed! A Lost character’s surprising new side! Spoilers are life-altering, and Star Trek 2, Supernatural, The Road, Twilight, Stargate, FlashForward and Fringe are embracing the spoiler lifestyle. Inception: Michael Caine spills the beans about what part he plays in Christopher Nolan’s first … Continued
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First White Spaces Broadband Trial Spreads Wi-Fi Via Broadcast TV
The NAB has been battling white spaces networks for years, but the technology that repurposes unused TV spectrum as a Wi-Fi signal is finally getting a trial period in Claudville, Virginia. https://gizmodo.com/bill-gates-says-white-space-is-for-free-wi-fi-broadcas-367977 The idea is simple, but the politics aren’t. All white spaces networks do is stick data into the unused frequencies that neighbor television … Continued
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A Young Jack Nicholson Encounters Sexy Evil From Beyond the Grave!
1960s flick The Terror is directed by B-grade auteur Roger Corman, and features the cheesy stylings of a young Jack Nicholson (in a great French soldier outfit) and an old Boris Karloff. Plus kissing in tombs and floating rocks! Basically, here’s the story. Jack Nicholson is fancy French soldier who washes up on an island … Continued
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First Glimpse Of Doctor Who’s New TARDIS Interior
Time-traveling action-comedy Doctor Who was filming on location again, and fans were able to peer inside the TARDIS and get a glimpse of the backdrop that’s set to match the new interior of the Doctor’s time machine. Gallery below. Thanks to the amazing Scooty for the pics, and thanks to Jesse Six for the heads … Continued
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The Tallest Monsters, the Largest Starships, and the Space Race
The Visual Aid book series is chock full of fun and fascinating infographics that explain everything from the space race timeline to the relative sizes of the dinosaurs. And they’ve distilled their visual information onto handy posters. These posters come from Visual Aid and Visual Aid 2, and are available as posters from the Visual … Continued
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Gas Masks That Turn Biochemical Warfare Into Art
Tom Banwell‘s ornate gas masks capture the creativity and detail of retro-futurist style. If you must plunge into a world of zombifying gases, at least you can look good. https://gizmodo.com/steampunk-zombies-of-the-seattle-apocalypse-5379759 Banwell’s masks are currently on display at the University of Oxford’s Steampunk Exhibition. [Tom Banwell Leather via Make]
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Stanford Study Explains Internet Trolls
In a study conducted at Stanford, psychologists discovered that people who hold extreme opinions are more likely to voice them loudly than those who hold moderate opinions. At last, science has explained most of what you read on the internet. Ohio State professor Kimberly Rios Morrison polled Stanford University students about what they thought about … Continued
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B-String Monsters That Deserve a Turn in the Limelight
Vampires, zombies, and werewolves have dominated horror movies for some time now. Looking for a new monster to chill you to your core? Here are some less-used beasties that deserve a shot on the big screen. We noted earlier this month that the mummy, once one of Universal’s favorite movie monsters, has been absent from … Continued
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An Input/Output Device for the Brain – Made of Light, Algae, and Bacteria
Michael Chorost, author of science autobiography Rebuilt, has a great article in Wired this month about a biotechnological breakthrough that could result in functional cyborgs. Using this biotech, people could access the internet with our brains. Chorost’s article is about the dawning of the age of “optogenetics,” a field where scientists stimulate neurons (such as … Continued
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The Secrets Of Astro Boy’s Floating Robot City
Here you can see a massive Peacekeeper robot shredding combat drones, in exclusive Astro Boy concept art. We loved this movie’s floating mountain city full of robots, so we talked to writer/director David Bowers and two designers about its creation. Oh, and this post includes minor spoilers for Astro Boy, but doesn’t give away any … Continued
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Listen to Classic Scifi TV Scores Played By An Amazing Orchestra, This Saturday Night
It’s not often that you get to hear great science fiction TV scores given the full orchestral treatment, but this Saturday in San Pedro, California, you’ll get your chance. Plus you can meet a legend in the scifi music business, Stu Philips, who has worked on everything from Buck Rogers to Battlestar Galactica. Darth Mojo … Continued
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At the End of the World, We’ll All Be on Reality TV
Will The Hills lead us to the apocalypse? In Lee Konstantinou‘s Pop Apocalypse, we can watch anyone, anytime, and celebrity worship has infiltrated every aspect of our culture. It may just be the end of the world. Pop Apocalypse shares some kinship in its ideas with Dani and Eytan Kollin’s The Unincorporated Man and Cory … Continued
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