Friday, September 2, 2011

SciFi News For 9-2-11

First Look At "Hunger Games" Teaser Trailer (Video 1:12):

"In Time" International Trailer (Video 2:38): 

New Film "Robotropolis" Almost Ready To Go (Video 1:30):

Superman: Man Of Steel Images: 

Now That's A Batcave!: 

George Lucas Replacing Puppet Yoda With Digital Yoda For Blu-Ray: 

Critiquing The SyFy Channel: They Make It Too Easy:

SciFi In Real Life - Modern Day Cyborgs (Video 12:33)

Surprisingly, But Not Unexpectedly, NASA Did Not Play Much Of A Role In Apollo 18:

Secret Moon Missions By The US And China? Sounds Like X-Files Material!:

"2019: A Future Imagined" - Syd Mead's Insights On What's To Come (Video 7:38):
http://vimeo.com/17376932

Star Wars Parody - "Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager" (Video 4:47):

OTHER NEWS
Bruce Boxleitner says "Tron 3" is coming in 2013!. While Disney hasn’t yet made it official, the actor says we’ll see more Tron in 2013 and that a third installment is a “done deal”."It’s already in the works, my friend," Boxleitner told an attendee at the recent D23 convention.

The one consolation Battlestar Galactica fans had following the cancellation of the prequel "Caprica" was that an originally proposed Web series was going to come to television instead. But now there's a possibility it's heading right back to the Web.  Filming on the pilot is complete, but a good portion of the special effects are not. . Because of that, there is no immediate plans to give the show an air date, and if it does come to television, it almost definitely won't be in 2011."Blood & Chrome" takes place, timeline wise, between "Caprica" and "Battlestar Galactica

SETI finally has bumped into something that may keep them busy for awhile.No one at SETI headquarters knows for sure but they believe that there is a slight possibility that a recent signal just might originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence. Although this strong signal was never positively identified, astronomers have identified in it many attributes characteristic of a more mundane and ultimately terrestrial origin. In this case, a leading possibility is that the signal originates from an unusual modulation between a GPS satellite and an unidentified Earth-based source.

Humans might not be living on Mars or the moon anytime soon, but scientists might have just overcome one major hurdle on the route to interplanetary habitation: electricity. At the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory they have designed a suitcase-sized nuclear plant that can power up to eight normal-sized homes. Thanks to its size and durability, the plant can provide fission power not only on Earth, but on the moon, on Mars, or any other place NASA requires a power generator.

BOOK REVIEWS
"Amnesia" - Dwayne Harris:
"Freehold" - Micheal Z. Williamson:
"Ready Player One" - Earnest Cline:

SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Someday I would like to stand on the Moon, look down through a quarter of a million miles of space and say, "There certainly is a beautiful Earth out tonight." - Lieutenant Colonel William H. Rankin - (The Man Who Rode Thunder)





 

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