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Beam Me Up
Science Fiction in the news,on tv,at the movies or in print. Whatever is of interest to you and to me is fair game. I also discuss cutting edge science that just might influence new sci-fi |
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SG-1 Stargate on Make Magazine's bog!
2008-01-09 14:11:00
Oh this is sweet! Someone sent in a project they made to "MAKE" magazine's blog website. Seems they made a "working" Stargate for SG-1. Like the article said, "working" as in it dials up a planet and lights up, etc - it doesn't actually transport you anywhere, yet. Well yeah duh, but it's still cool! I'd have one! ...
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New web series coming IQ-145
2008-01-09 12:05:00
IO9 just posted a heads up on a new SciFi series that will be web based only. The series is called IQ-145 and the website's description of the show is as follows:
Son of a renowned, inventor/futurist father, who has mysteriously committed suicide; Nate Palmer is recruited by a secret organization to help search for his fathers last experiment... only to discover that he may be the experiment ...
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The Human Brain as a time machine
2008-01-09 01:24:00
TIME online has a neat article discussing how the human brain is unique in the animal kingdom for the way it conceives time:
The human mind can move through time in any direction and at any speed it chooses. Our ability to close our eyes and imagine the pleasures of Super Bowl Sunday or remember the excesses of New Year's Eve is a fairly recent evolutionary development, and our talent for doing ...
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Nanotubes Make Synthetic Skin Feel Your Pain
2008-01-08 15:22:00
I would say that this kind of developments mean that something like "bionics" ever so much closer to reality. Plus my money says that this is a jumping off point for a true android.
Carbon nanotubes can conduct sensations through artificial skin back to the brain, making prosthetic limbs feel like the real thing. A nanotube like this one, delicately balanced on top of gold filaments, is ...
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Bhutto Killed by Laser Weapon, Pakistan Paper Says
2008-01-08 13:05:00
And now from the totally off the wall department:
A newspaper in Pakistan is quoting Pakistan People's Party leader Babar Awan saying that that a laser gun was used to kill Bhutto. ''The X-ray reports suggested that there were two to three tiny radio densities under each fractured segments on both projections which were in fact invisible electromagnetic radiations.
Oh, read the comments to this ...
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Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future
2008-01-08 12:47:00
Hey, did I get your attention? Hell yes I did! lol Oh I love this stuff. I found this on IO9's blog site. Done TOTALLY straight. Here is some of the copy:
A camera that can see almost three years into the future might sound like a crazy hoax, but here's the proof. Enitech's new Gardner Project uses tachyons to cut through space time and see 1,191 days into the future. And now you too can ...
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Secrets Of Battlestar Season Four Betrayed In New Photo
2008-01-07 11:51:00
According to SciFi Scanner and IO9: A supposedly spoiler-filled promo picture for the upcoming season of Battlestar Galactica has been released by Entertainment Weekly... despite the fact that no one's even sure that the half a season they've filmed of BSG will be aired in 2008. The promo shot apes Da Vinci's Last Supper, but the poses the characters are in allegedly reveal the plot twists of the ...
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Telescope at South Pole searches for Dark Matter
2008-01-06 18:39:00
At seven stories tall and a main mirror 32 ½ feet across, it's a big telescope by anyone's estimation. Situated at the south pole, the aptly named South Pole Telescope is on a mission searching for the most powerful, plentiful but elusive substance in the universe — dark energy. Dark energy is a mysterious force so powerful that it has already overruled the laws of gravity, it is pushing ...
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The 3 Laws of Robotics according to Warren Ellis
2008-01-05 21:39:00
Warren Ellis's gives us a profane and angry take on the Three Laws of Robotics. For those of you scratching your heads now saying...ummm laws? what laws? Let me enlighten you. Science Fiction author Isaac Asimov is credited with being the first to pen rules for robot behavior. His three laws were basic and simple, they are for the most part 1) a robot must obey a human 2) a robot must never ...
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Review: Tall Tales on the Iron Horse by Colin P. Davies
2008-01-03 21:39:00
Tall Tales on the Iron Horse
pb trade 207 pp
Bewildering Press
I think I have figured out the genius behind releasing stories onto the web. Now don't get me wrong, I can see some of the more obvious reasons. Like getting material that is not otherwise available in front of the public's eyes. Which is what I guess was what I have discovered just how deep that rabbit hole goes. Every ...
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The Sarah Connor Chronicles Pilot Goes Online!
2008-01-03 18:32:00
SF Signal has listed an article that says that :
Fox will post the pilot episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles exclusively on Yahoo! for 24 hours beginning Jan. 4 at 12 a.m. ET. The premiere features an introduction by star Lena Headey (Sarah Connor) and will be commercial-free. The series officially debuts on Fox over two nights: Jan. 13th and 14th.cool ...
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Red Dust In Planet-forming Disk May Harbor Precursors To Life
2008-01-03 14:46:00
ScienceDaily reports that Astronomers have found the first indications of highly complex organic molecules in the disk of red dust surrounding a distant star. The eight-million-year-old star, known as HR 4796A, is thought to be in the late stages of planet formation, suggesting that the basic building blocks of life may be common in planetary systems. These observations were taken with the ...
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Sign up for the new converter box coupon...or maybe not...
2008-01-02 17:54:00
Oh I love this! lol By now, unless you live in a cave, you know that the FCC is closing the analog band of frequencies now being used by broadcasters and making it mandatory for all broadcasters to begin broadcasting their signal in the new digital format. This change over has to be complete by February of 2009. Consumers that receive their signals over the air can petition the US government ...
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Fox gives New Amsterdam a time slot!
2008-01-02 17:40:00
According to SyFy Portal:
Fox has finally found a home for its "Highlander"-like series, "New Amsterdam." The show, which features an immortal homicide detective, will take over Mondays in a slot that was originally gifted to "When Women Rule the World," which seemingly has been pulled from Fox's schedule.
New Amsterdam will take its' Monday slot starting March 10 however Fox plans 2 " ...
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