Friday, September 30, 2011

SciFi News For 9-30-11

"Terra Nova" Gets Mostly Good Reviews (Spoiler Alert & Video 1:00)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/27/terra-nova-review_n_983327.html?ref=mostpopular 
http://scifimedia.blogspot.com/2011/09/terra-nova.html 

The Coolest Spaceship Designs In Science Fiction:
http://www.flesheatingzipper.com/entertainment/2011/09/the-coolest-spaceship-designs-in-science-fiction/

Renowned Physicist Urges Caution Before We Start Time Traveling!

100 Year Starship Study Goes To Warp This Weekend (Video 3:25)

Planet With Two Suns Discovered (Video 1:06)

Invisibility Shield Closer To Reality For Armed Forces (Video 1:46)

Remembering Every Day Of Your Life. Yes It's For Real! (Video 2:38):

Just For Kicks..."The Thing" Trailer In Russian! (Video 1:55)

The Making of 1984's "Terminator" (Video - Six parts):
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDE7XolQRtw&feature=related
OTHER NEWS
It's now official. CBS has given the go ahead for the "Star Trek: The Next Generation Remastered Project. All 178 episodes will be re-scanned from the original films elements and visual effects elements will be re-composited into a 1080p workflow for mastering onto Blu-ray and runs on syndicated television and digital distribution 

Jessica Chastain has been cast in a high profile role in Tom Cruise's upcoming sci-fi thriller. The project, formerly known as Oblivian and Horizons, centers around a futuristic Earth where people live in the clouds since the ground is inhabitable. Cruise's character has responsibility for preventing an alien attack on a post-apocalyptic Earth.

20th Century Fox is now working on a live-action adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s "The Caves of Steel.", first published in 1954. The studio has set Henry Hobson to direct. The story is a murder mystery that takes place roughly three millennia in Earth's future, a time when hyperspace travel has been discovered," and Earth is overpopulated and there's a fear of robots.  Adapting the script from Asimov's story is screenwriter John Scott 3 (that's his full name) who, when not working on scripts with  works at the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, which takes photos of X-ray photons in deep space.

Originally scheduled to be made into a movie way back in 2007, Brian Haberlin’s comic book series “Area 52″ is closer to the big screen. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian will produce the film about a top secret warehouse in Antarctica called Area 52, a government storage dump for otherworldly discoveries, manned by a ragtag group of misfits who have been exiled to the middle of nowhere to staff it.

Private space companies will launch American astronauts into orbit years before NASA is ready to do so on its own again, but the race to be the first commercial space taxi service is still far from won. NASA's next crew-carrying rocket, the Heavy Lift Space Launch System will blast off on its first test flight in 2017 at the earliest, agency officials have said. But a handful of private companies say they're on schedule to begin lofting astronauts by 2015 or perhaps even earlier. "We believe we'll be ready in three years," said Gwynne Shotwell, president of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (also known as SpaceX). 

A NASA space telescope that mapped the entire sky has revealed that fewer potentially threatening asteroids are in orbits near Earth than previously thought. The discovery lowers the number of medium-size asteroids near Earth to 19,500, nearly a 50 percent drop from the 35,000 space rocks initially estimated. "Fewer does not mean none and there are still tens of thousands out there to find," study leader Amy Mainzer, principal investigator for NASA's NEOWISE project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

BOOK REVIEWS
"Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book Of Science Fiction (Oct 25):
"A Beautiful Friendship" - David Weber:
"Primary Inversion" (1996) - Catherine Asaro

SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK 
"Never stop being a kid. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead." - Richard Bach


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