mentalfloss.com - 10/25/2008
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Last month, China conducted its first space walk. This week, India launched its first spaceship to the moon. Space seems to be the place for nations to advance science and nationalism, but it’s a place for music too.
Outer space muses struck terrestrial musicians long before any rockets left ...
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@mental_floss: 6 Albums Inspired by Outer Space
Grasping for the Wind —
This is a pretty cool list, and does not suffer from any sort of predictability. I might want to try and find one or two of these myself.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17231 ...
SF Tidbits for 10/26/08
SF Signal —
... films for Halloween.
Peggy at Biology in Science Fiction looks at the evolution in the game Spore.
Since book stripping seems to be on everyone's mind, check out this 2005 post from Bookseller Chick on The Dirty World of Book Stripping. [via The Swivet]
ComicMix uncovers some alternate Star Trek universe where Sulu is black and Uhura is white.
Mental Floss lists 6 Albums Inspired By Outer Space.
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