SciFi News For 9-23-11

Damon Lindelof  On Working With Ridley Scott And "Prometheus" (Video 2:48.00):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NzRjHDAgRmk

A Few SciFi Movie Inventions We'd Like To See:
http://journalstar.com/entertainment/movies/article_a8fdbe10-441b-5006-aaa1-3def694b940f.html

Trailer For New Game, "Lifeless Planet" (Video 1:17):

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/09/lifeless_planet.php

Trek Writer Brannon Braga Says He Did Not Kill Franchise:
Part 1: http://www.startrek.com/article/brannon-braga-from-tng-to-terra-nova-part-1 
Part 2: http://www.startrek.com/article/brannon-braga-from-tng-to-terra-nova-part-2

Astronaut Gene Cernan Says "Bring Back Shuttle" (Video 1:27):
http://www.space.com/13054-bring-shuttle-man-moon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29 

"Journey To The Exoplanets" Takes Digital Books To New Level (Video 1:28): http://talkingnewmedia.blogspot.com/2011/09/journey-to-exoplanets-takes-digital.html

IBM's "Watson" Soon To Have Real Day Job! (Video 30):
http://singularityhub.com/2011/09/20/from-jeopardy-to-insurance-ibms-watson-ai-hired-by-wellpoint-for-medical-expertise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SingularityHub+%28Singularity+Hub%29 

Time Travel Explained...On One Web Page!:
http://www.australianscience.com.au/physics/time-travel-in-physics-metaphysics-and-science-fiction/

Science Fiction Not Just About Fantasy...It Can Change Lives:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/100006874/science-fiction-isnt-just-fantasy-it-changes-lives-and-can-change-britain/

Use Your Home Computer To Go Green And Save The Planet:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-09/distributed-computing-project-crowdsources-solar-cell-research 

OTHER NEWS

Director of the new version of "Robocop", Jose Padilha says that while he respects the original version, he won’t be bound to follow it exactly when he reboots the film. “I love the sharpness and political tone of "RoboCop" and I think that such a film is now urgently needed,” he says. ” But I will not repeat what Paul Verhoeven has done so clearly and strongly. Instead I try to make a film that will address topics that Verhoeven left untreated.

Director Roland Emmerich has ruled out his involvement in the Asteroids video game film adaptation, but confirms that he’s definitely making Singularity. It’s a script he’s co-written with Harald Kloser that takes place in the future 40 years from now,” Emmerich said. "It’s like kind of this moment where computer technology is so advanced that were in danger of losing control."

Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn is hard at work on the new film version of "Logan's Run" The project would reunite the Danish director with Ryan Gosling, the star of Refn's latest film. "I really want to make Logan's Run, and I'm working on it very hard and I have to deliver a script by Christmas,"

As if you already didn't know...No one really dies in science fiction! Take Sigourney Weaver, for example. Says she will appear in the sequel to "Avatar", despite her character dying in the first installment.Weaver has told a US movie website “don’t worry, I will be back, no one ever dies in science fiction”.

A decommissioned NASA satellite is expected to fall to Earth today and agency officials are monitoring the spacecraft closely to try to narrow down when and where the debris will fall. According to NASA, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite or UARS will make its descent through the atmosphere some time this afternoon or early evening (Eastern Daylight Time), but while it is still too soon to tell where pieces of  will land, scientists have been able to rule out North America from the potential impact zone. The craft is large, about the size of a bus and weighs 6.5 tons.

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has spotted a planet that alternately runs late and early in its orbit because a second, "invisible" world is tugging on it. This is the first definite detection of a previously unknown planet using this method. No other technique could have found the unseen companion. "This invisible planet makes itself known by its influence on the planet we can see," said astronomer Sarah Ballard of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

BOOK REVIEWS

"The Departure" - Neil Asher:
http://www.cybermage.se/the-departure-owner-trilogy-1-by-neal-asher-book-review/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cybermage+%28Cybermage%29
"Seeds Of War" - R Cornett, K. Randall (1986 - First Book In Series Of 3)
http://www.paperbackswap.com/Seeds-War/book/0441758789/ 
"Rogue" - Michael Z. Williamson
http://www.webscription.net/p-1462-rogue-arc.aspx

SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK 
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it." - Ray Bradbury