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Nuke, Editor of the really entertaining Antipodean online flash fiction magazine has given us a heads up on the upcoming issue 138 and I can just look at this TOC and see this is going to be a great issue, how? well Suzanne Sykora? Shaun Saunders? Jamie Richter?! Yep Nuke... has a winner this ...
Books
The Forever War
Kevin J. Anderson
The FountainHugh Jackman Rachel WeiszDirected by Darren AronofskyTalk about a total departure from the films I have been watching as of late! The Fountain is as far away as you can get from the high octane action science fiction movie as you can get I think. The Fountain is a thoughtful, ...
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NASA has awarded Peter Homer of Southwest Harbor, Maine, $250,000 for coming up with the winning design concept for more flexible space gloves intended to make it easier for astronauts to perform tasks.
It's the second time Peter Homer has won the so-called "Astronaut Glove Challenge" -- ...
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Hey, you have got to check out this short film. It's called Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin. It is about a meteor strike and it's effect on one man. I love the animation. Thanks to SF Signals for the original post.Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Behemoth on Vimeo.
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Mark Wilson of the SciFi Fantasy Blog writes: Fox network has decided the Joss Whedon basement-rated drama Dollhouse has had all the breaks it's going to get. Fox has committed to air all 13 episodes starting up again December 4. Four episodes had already aired in September and October, so nine ...
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Dollhouse
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Have you ever see this? Its the Clone
Song rumor has it that it was written by
the good doctor himself. Found a copy....Wonder if John could voice this? lolThe Clone Song By: Isaac Asimov Tune: Home On The Range Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh ...
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The Clone Song
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Biology in Science Fiction
found this 8 days agofound this
Finally! Someone agrees with me! I never thought these mega-ship from E-T to Independence Day made any sense what so ever! so I was reading on the Dvice blog and here was an article giving out some excellent static on these uber mother ships. First ummm we could see them coming! In V they just ...
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CNN reports that NASA's LCROSS has indeed turned up water on the moon! Preliminary data collected from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite's October 9th impact, indicates a significant amount of water in the plume thrown up by the impactor.Project scientist Anthony Colaprete, ...
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Moon
So again, I am reading my reader postings from the Make Magazine blog. I come to this cool photo from the Science Photo blog (and I start thinking...ummm why is this on Make...and then I began to suspect that their sensibilities may be similar to my own. )So I study it...could it be coronal ...
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Yep, you read that right! Check out the story at IO9! I was reading down and there it was! What am I talking about? Well, from the article:In 1924, ... US Naval and Army stations scanned the skies for extraterrestrial transmissions.From where? Mars! Why? Well a couple of reasons.... The best ...
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Transformers 2007Director Michael BayShia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, John TurturroRevenge 2009Director Michael BayShia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, John TurturroRemember the old Saturday morning cartoon about robot that change into cars jets and trucks? Robot in disguise! remember? ...
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
From Dvice blog I read that the large Hadron Collider is again offline. However this is no magnetic ring losing containment no this time it was caused by something almost beyond comprehension!Would you believe a piece of bread? I am not making this up, one of the world's most complicated ...
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Hadron Collider
A new born Neutron Star does. Neutron stars, the ultra dense remains of a collapsed super giant star after going super nova. The neutron star is so compacted by immense gravity that all of an atom's components are crushed into the atomic core and those neutrons so dense that a square ...
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Hey do you remember that great story that Gareth Powel let me read for Beam Me Up called "The Last Reef"? Well if you have forgotten it, let me remind you. It was about a man who goes to Mars to find out what happened to the woman that he loved very much. When he gets there he finds that she ...
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Happy November!Here in Texas the weather has finally decided that summer is almost over. We've actually had a few cool nights and mild days. Wonder how long that'll last?Texas is a country of extremes it seems, with weather that stays confused. But at least we don't have earthquakes. ...
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Nuke, the editor writes to let us know that issue 137 of AntipodeanSF the online Australian flash fiction magazine is now online. Also the magazine is now available for your mobile phone, pda and other portable devices, not just the laptop or desktop! Which is great news! Here is this month's ...
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I just love these College Humor shorts. lol Thanks to SF Signal for the post.See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
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According to this IO9 article, the original full length Metropolis by Fritz Lang will be shown for the first time in 8 decades at next year's Berlin Film Festival.The original did not do well in it's first release and many people in the government at the time felt that the movie contained too ...
Film
Metropolis
NASA's "space elevator" competition is alive and well. Only three teams still are in competition for the 2 million dollar prize. Here is a short on one of the leading competitors that will have to make a half mile climb up a ribbon using nothing but external power. Check out the IO9 article
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Shaun Saunders send me this article from NewScientist. Here is the premise:Recently: at the Perimeter Institute, in Waterloo, Canada, a panel of physicists was asked: "What keeps you awake at night?"Those the responses were varied as one would suspect, a pattern of sorts showed up along several ...
