January 2010
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Obama To Approve $6 Billion In Funding For Private... →
According to the New York Times:
The new money would largely go to commercial companies that would provide transportation to and from the International Space Station. Until now, NASA has designed and operated its own spacecraft, like the space shuttles.
The commercial rockets would displace the Ares I, the rocket that NASA has been developing for the past four years to replace the shuttles, which...
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“I think I have great peasant genes. You ought to look at my thighs! I’ve...”
– Patrick Stewart, on turning 70 this year.
Read the San Francisco Chronicle’s full interview with Stewart here.
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See What New York City Looked Like In 1924 →
New York City’s .gov website now comes with hi-res aerial photographs of the city from 1924. Check out this 1924 vs. 2008 shot of the East Village and Williamsburg waterfronts:
More mappy goodness here. Just type in your address New Yorkers and set the clock back to 1924!
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“I’m stepping away from ‘Star Trek’ for at least two years - no...”
– Zachary Quinto, on his future involvement with the Star Trek franchise.
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iPad Schmypad
I still want one of these:
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"Dirty Sexy Images" From The Dollhouse Series... →
I’m all for promoting Dollhouse and am sad to see it go, but Scifi Wire has really been getting under my skin lately with its porntastic, spammy sounding headlines. And no, this poorly executed pun is hardly an excuse:
Dirty, as in covered with dirt: Fox has released a bunch of new pics from the upcoming series finale of Fox’s canceled sci-fi series Dollhouse, which goes back to the...
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If Aliens Ever Visit Earth, They'll Be Just Like... →
At least that’s what Cambridge University’s Simon Conway Morris believes. Conway Morris, a professor of evolutionary paleobiology, suspects that extraterrestrials will very likely exhibit human-like tendencies such as “greed, violence and a tendency to exploit others’ resources.”
Yikes!
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A Steampunk USB Drive You Won't Want To Lose
It’s $600 for 4gb of memory, so this is only for hardcore steampunk purists who I assume already have this:
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China Pulls "Avatar" From Theaters... →
…but only the 2D version?
According to the AP, the Chinese government pulled Avatar 2D following concerns the film’s plot may hit too close to home:
There is sensitivity to the movie’s plot, which revolves around the forced evictions of the alien Na’vi race by humans — a story line that some have said draws unflattering comparisons to China’s own, often brutal...
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Imagine Greater Ratings: Syfy's Marketing of... →
Is this the shape of things to come?
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WatchBrilliant: SNL’s mashed up Avatar/Alien/Laser Cats digital short featuring Sigourney Weaver and James Cameron. Make the connection!!!
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“The Cardinal Movements” -Bottomless...
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Prepare yourself for Android Karenina →
Tolstoy’s classic novel set in a steampunk world populated by cyborgs.
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Conan vs. Leno Sci-Fi Movie Themed Photoshop... →
For example:
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Your Latest Fictional News Source: The Caprican
Syfy just launched its latests news vehicle The Caprican, Caprica City’s premier news source.
In addition to my science fiction problem, I’m a news junky. So fictional science fiction news= I win.
Here are my quick (because apparently your ability to focus on my words in non-list form is already fading…) thoughts on The Caprican:
1. Design:
The cutting of corners (in the...
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Will Space Pilot Be A College Degree In The... →
According to the research company Fast Future, the future will be bright for students equipped with skills in science and technology:
Forget the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker: in 20 years some of the most popular jobs could include vertical farmer, space pilot and body part maker, according to a government commissioned report.
YES. More space pilots and automail body...
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Beware of Science Fiction!
This may be the best thing I’ve read all day.
David Cloud, founder of Fundamentalist Baptist Way of Life Literature and Ministries exhorts his reader(s?) to stay away from the profoundly atheistic genre of sci-fi, including such dangerous authors as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, and Gene Roddenberry.
Science fiction takes the reader into a...
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"Sci-Fi like" Apartment Listing on Craigslist →
$2850 / 2br - Sci- Fi like 2 BR w/ 2 Baths, Balcony’s, Gym, I-Pod Dock, Next to L,G! (Williamsburg/Greenpoint)
Among the more fantastical adjectives New York real estate brokers have taken to using, “sci-fi like” conjures an apartment that should have a replicator, a sonic shower, or at the very least, a decaying radioactive isotope somewhere in the common area (for those...
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How to Stop a Killer Asteroid →
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My Review of Avatar
It looked cool.
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Is It Time For A New Breed of Science Fiction Fan?
As Syfy happily reports its best year ever, one of the burning questions on my mind is this:
If Syfy’s rebrand has helped expand its core audience, does it then follow that the core audience of science fiction is changing as well?
In other words, is there a new ”average” science fiction viewer?
I imagine the audience for science fiction is still largely male. But I also know...
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Ruh-Roh: Google vs. Philip K. Dick →
The estate of Philip K. Dick claims Google didn’t ask permission when naming its newest gadget the Nexus One. Google claims Nexus One has nothing to do with Dick’s Nexus 6, from his short story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” Instead, Google claims its use of the word “Nexus” refers to its common, non-science-fiction-literature-specific meaning, as a...
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Battlestar Galactica Driftwood Sculpture?
Is it me, or is this just a giant stick?
Well, the proud owner of this fortuitously-shaped piece of driftwood is willing to part with it for a mere $75. What a steal!
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Paradox Alert: Star Trek Wetsuits →
The product developers at Roddenberry.com have released the Star Trek Wetsuit, modeled after the original series uniforms.
Let’s see a show of hands please of how many hardcore Trekkies are also hardcore surfers. Anyone?
Anyone?
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Cremation, Space burial, or Cryonics?
How many times have you debated with your perfectly healthy, young friends whether you’d rather have a normal burial or be cremated?
Being both claustrophobic and terrified of the possibility that your soul might linger on in your dead body and have to endure the psychic ramifications of being thrown in an oven, my solution to the burial/cremation dilemma has always been to have my body...