Friday, January 28, 2011

SciFi News For 1-28-11

Ridley Scott's Non-Alien Movie Is Still "Alien" After All? (Story):
http://www.scificool.com/ridley-scotts-not-alien-alien-movie-is-still-alien-after-all-say-what/

British Actor Wins Role As Adama in "Blood And Chrome: (Story):
http://airlockalpha.com/node/8219/brit-actor-takes-on-adama-in-blood-chrome.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SyfyPortalHeadlines+%28Airlock+Alpha+Headlines%29

Does The World Need More "Matrix"? (Story):
http://www.theendoftheuniverse.ca/node/1941

"Another Earth" Is This Years Hit At Sundance Film Festival (Story & Trailer 1:07)
http://www.theendoftheuniverse.ca/node/1944

Science Fiction Problems: Time Travel (3 stories):
Part One: http://lanternhollow.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/problems-in-science-fiction-time-travel-part-i-slightly-more-complicated-than-most-people-think/
Part Two:http://lanternhollow.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/science-fiction-problems-time-travel-part-ii/
Part Three:http://lanternhollow.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/science-fiction-problems-time-travel-part-iii-or-deadly-deja-vu-2/

The Current State Of Interstellar Flight (Story):
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1765/1

Can Machines Fall In Love? (Story):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/01/26/133213460/can-machines-fall-in-love

"The Robinsons: Lost In Space:" - The Unsold Reboot That Didn't Make It (Videos):
Part One:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAT4tjjzOCk
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTrUejIXYiM&feature=related
Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgnJGk_UZ6Q&feature=related
Part Four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kN-FI4f0wc&feature=related
Part Five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AksT1IgNz0&feature=related

Late SciFi Author Phillip K. Dick...As a Robot! (Story & Video 1:37):
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20110113/check-robotic-head-late-sciencefiction-author-philip-dick/

Interview With "Alpha One" Book Writer Chris Burton (Story):
http://pennylockwoodehrenkranz.blogspot.com/2011/01/interview-with-sci-fi-author-chris.html 


OTHER NEWS
It doesn't even have a cast yet but "The Hunger Games" movie has been given a March 2012 release date. Based on Suzanne Collins' popular series of young adult novels, "Games" is set in a post-apocalyptic America, where 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen must participate in a fight-to-the-death with other teenagers from around the country in an annual, televised event called the Hunger Games.

Scientists have discovered a huge alien planet in a system with two suns similar to the fictional world of Tatooine in movie Star Wars: A New Hope.The new giant gas planet orbits the primary star identified as HR 7162, which is part of a binary star system 49 light years away, in the constellation Lyra.The planet isn't the only known one with more than one sun. Researchers have discovered dozens of them, meaning double sunsets like those seen on Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine may not be so rare.

An idea that until recently was believed to be part of a science fiction movie is about to become a reality! British military scientists are developing an invisible tank that uses a technology known as "e-camouflage" which is believed to be ready for battle within five years. Invisibility will be possible due to sophisticated electronic sensors attached to the armored vehicles, which will project images of the surrounding environment on the outside of the vehicle, thereby making it merge with the battlefield landscape.



SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov

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