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io9.com - 2/27/2009

How 9/11 Changed Watchmen [Watchmen]

— io9.com — The horrific visions that open the final chapter of Alan Moore's Watchmen haunt you long afterwards. But... Zack Snyder's movie tones down that imagery, and screenwriter David Hayter says it's because of 9/11. Spoilers below. As you probably already ... (more) How 9/11 Changed Watchmen [Watchmen]

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Wednesday YouTube: The Science of Watchmen
SF Signal — Physic professor Jim Kakalios worked as science consultant on the Watchmen film. Here's what he has to say about the science in Watchmen... Yeah, like I needed another reason to want to go see this... [via Pharyngula]

SciFi Sunday: Terminator, Watchmen, Marvel, Dragonball + Lost, Heroes, Red Dwarf, Stargate + more
TrekMovie.com — SciFi Sunday: Terminator, Watchmen, Marvel, Dragonball + Lost, Heroes, Red Dwarf, Stargate + more March 1, 2009 by Rosario T. Calabria , Filed under: Sci-Fi , trackback [image] There is lots of non-Trek genre news coming out of WonderCon and we have the highlights, including tons of stuff on Watchmen and Terminator Salvation. Plus Jackson in for Nick Fury, but is Yelchin in for Green Lantern? All that and lots of movie previews. In TV land we have Lou Diamond Phillips going through the Gate, an update on the futures of Lost, Terminator: TSCC, Smallville and Supernatural. And more previews. W ONDER C ON 2009 Watchmen ...

The Science of The Watchmen
Mike Brotherton: SF Writer — OK, not quite getting away from The Watchmen quite yet.  A friend pointed me at a video about the science of The Watchmen: University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios discusses how he was tapped to add a physics perspective to the upcoming Warner Brothers movie, Watchmen. Kakalios discusses how quantum mechanics can explain Dr. Manhattan’s super human powers in the film, and how he came to become an expert on the topic of the physics of superheroes. Check out Kakalios book at www.physicsofsuperheroes.com I recommend his book highly.  And now for the 6-7 minute ...

Watchmen Science
Science Fiction in the News — Watchmen Science [image] Dr. James Kakalios, a physics professor at the University of Minnesota, was asked to consult on the Watchmen film by Warner Brothers. Kakalios was a good choice, since he had already been teaching a course named "Everything I know about physics, I learned from comic books." In the following video, Kakalios looks at some of the super powers in Watchmen, and uses it to sneak a lot of interesting material about real science into the discussion. (Science of Wachmen video) Teleportation, for example, is currently impossible on a macroscopic scale, but researchers are making progress. It's been possible to teleport the ...