Friday, October 28, 2011

SciFi News For 10-28-11

"In Time" Review - The Good And The Bad (Spoiler Alert):
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45058624/ns/today-entertainment/#.Tqr_BLKri1t 

The Public's Fascination With "Jurassic Park" :
http://io9.com/5853891/why-do-we-keep-going-back-to-jurassic-park

Optimistic Science Fiction Scenario's For The Future:
http://io9.com/5853540/optimistic-science-fiction-stories-that-could-still-come-true 

Looking For New Ways To Get Into Orbit:
http://www.space.com/13397-nasa-private-spaceflight-ccdev-progress-report.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29

NASA Wants To Hear Your Ideas For Deep Space Travel:
http://www.futureincredible.com/2011/nasa-wants-to-hear-your-far-out-ideas-for-deep-space-travel/ 

America's Premier Jet Fighter Has No Fix In Site For Tech Problems:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/stealth-fighters-oxygen-woes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29   

Yes It's Ok To Follow God And Your Favorite Alien Too!:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/10/from-the-x-files-giordano-brunos-legacy-vatican-revises-views-on-extraterrestrial-civilizations.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond+%28The+Daily+Galaxy%3A+News+from+Planet+Earth+%26+Beyond%29

A Chat With Everyone's Favorite Ferengi:
http://www.themortonreport.com/entertainment/television/intergalactic-wheeler-dealer-a-chat-with-star-trek-deep-space-nines-armin-shimerman/ 

"Big Wigs" In Science Fiction Who Studied Architecture:
http://io9.com/5845565/great-science-fiction-creators-who-have-studied-architecture 

The Virtual Doctor Will See You Now:
http://singularityhub.com/2011/10/16/welcome-to-rite-aid-the-virtual-doctors-will-see-you-now/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SingularityHub+%28Singularity+Hub%29

Air Force Commercial Not Science Fiction?...Not Quite! (Video 1:03):
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/air-force-sci-fi/

Find Out Where You Fit In Earth's Timeline:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

OTHER NEWS
After a long wait, Fox is actively pushing ahead with a pair of sequels to "Independence Day". The plan is to make a huge, two-part story, shot back-to-back. One insider says “They’re intended to be fulfilling movies onto themselves, one's where you could see each separately and enjoy them, but they tell one big story."  Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are putting the finishing touches to the scripts. No word on whether Will Smith is onboard for the project.

The new movie version of "Battlestar Galactica won’t be a reboot of the recent series so much as it will be taking place in an alternate universe says writer John Orloff. He tells Hitfix that the new movie won’t violate what we saw in the Ron Moore version because “I don’t think you can compete with what he’s done.”  He added that the new version was “original and cool” while he felt the original was too much of a "Star Wars" knock-off." 

Paramount just bought the script for the film "Hyperdrive", written by written by David Daniels and Morgan Jurgenson. The story focuses on a science fiction author who is asked by a cop to help track down a murder witness, but during the hunt, they “find themselves in the middle of a space opera playing out on Earth.”

The backbiting over the theme of "Indiana Jones 4" continues and now even Steve and George are getting into it! Director Steven Spielberg says that if you didn’t like the alien aspect of the film, blame screenwriter George Lucas.I’m very happy with the movie. I always have been", but I am loyal to my best friend. When he writes a story he believes in, even if I don’t believe in it,I’m going to shoot the movie the way George envisioned it. 

You can hack satellites? According to a congressional commission report to be released next month hackers interfered with two U.S. government satellites four separate times in recent years. The report says the hackers gained access to the satellites, which are both used for Earth climate and terrain monitoring, through the Svalbard Satellite Station in Spitsbergen, Norway. The commission's report also said that the Chinese military might have played a part in the hacks.

BOOK REVIEWS
"This Is Not A Game - Walter Jon Williams:
"One Of Us" - Micheal Marshall Smith:
"Pandora's Star" - Peter F. Hamilton:

SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible"
Lord Kelvin - British mathematician and physicist (1895)

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