Friday, February 11, 2011

SciFi News For 2-11-11

Actor Ryan Gosling To Headline New "Logan's Run" (Story & Video 2:46):
http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/02/10/logans-run-remake-ryan-gosling/

"Star Wars Begins" - An Unofficial Documentary (Video in 14 parts 2:18):
http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/02/04/star-wars-documentary/

20 Of The Best Time Travel Movies (Story & Images):
http://www.eatmyzombie.com/20-of-the-best-sci-fi-time-travel-movies

Looking Back At The Gate - Interview With SG-1's Amanda Tapping (Story):
http://scifiandtvtalk.typepad.com/scifiandtvtalk/2011/02/sci-fi-blast-from-the-past-amanda-tapping-stargate-sg-1.html

11 Science Fiction Cities That Are Being Built Right Now (Story & Images):
http://www.businessinsider.com/science-fiction-cities-2011-2#
 

Rick Berman Looks Back At 18 Years Of Trek (3-Part Story)
http://www.startrek.com/article/rick-berman-looks-back-at-18-years-of-trek-part-1
http://www.startrek.com/article/rick-berman-looks-back-at-18-years-of-trek-part-2
http://www.startrek.com/article/rick-berman-looks-back-at-18-years-of-trek-part-3

NASA's First Orion Space Capsule Rolls Out For Tests (Story):
http://www.space.com/10815-nasa-orion-space-capsule-testing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

Maiden Flight Of Unmanned Navy Stealth Bomber - The X-47b (Story & Video 1:10):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354341/Rise-machines-Un-manned-X-47B-robot-stealth-bomber-tested-US-Navy.html

Science Fiction Writer Considers Our First Eventual Contact With Aliens (Story):
http://www.mmdnewswire.com/alien-wind-from-the-stars-by-dimitrios-molfetas-22724.html

OTHER NEWS
Star Wars Trivia:
1. Jodie Foster auditioned for the role of Princess Leia.
2. Peter Mayhew was a porter at a London hospital before being cast as Chewbacca.
 
The long-awaited "Battlestar Galactica Online has launched! It's is a free-to-play, browser-based space combat MMOG that combines high-quality, 3D graphics with intense gameplay. Set during the latter part of the show's second season, the game takes the form of a previously "untold chapter," in which both the Colonial and Cylon fleets are stranded in an uncharted area of space.
http://battlestar-galactica.bigpoint.com/

It may be still in the realm of science fiction for many but a nanotechnology expert has claimed that green, clean, safe and cheap energy can be produced using a low energy nuclear reactor in room temperature. "One does not need materials like uranium, plutonium or thorium or for that matter any kind of reactors," said Prof David Nagel, research professor of micro and nano technologies at George Washington University. So far The International Patent Office has rejected applications for a patent, however that's partially because scientists who have made breakthroughs are reluctant to come out in the open because of the fear that they may be deprived of their intellectual property rights."
 

Book Reviews
"Across The Universe" By Beth Revis (Blog):
http://www.thecompulsivereader.com/2011/01/across-universe-by-beth-revis.html

SciFi News Quote Of The Week
"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years." - Wilbur Wright

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