http://www.uptownmag.com/movies/reviews/In-the-here-and-now-133169473.html
Universal Studios Executive Not Shy About Speaking Out On Company's Movies:
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=49323
Jonathan Frakes Talks Many Things Trek:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Fun_Stuff/Star_Trek_The_Next_Generation/Jonathan_Frakes/Tom_Landy/Star_Trek/Comic-Con/HDD_Attends_Central_Canada_Comic-Cons_QA_with_Jonathan_Frakes/7987
Educated Predictions For The Future Of Robotics:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/11/evolutionary-timeline-for-machine-intelligence-todays-most-popular.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond+%28The+Daily+Galaxy%3A+News+from+Planet+Earth+%26+Beyond%29
NASA Says U.S. Could Cooperate With China In Space:
http://www.space.com/13492-china-united-states-space-cooperation-nasa.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29
NASA Researching "Tractor Beam" Technology:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2056058/Sci-fi-tractor-beam-pulls-objects-using-lasers-development-Nasa.html
Locked In A Tube For 520 Days - "The Simulated Mars Mission":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15574646?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+C2C-AllContent+%28Feed+-+Coast+to+Coast+-+All+Content%29
How To Write A Sincere First Draft Of Your Science Fiction Story:
http://io9.com/5855273/how-to-write-a-sincere-first-draft-of-your-science-fiction-or-fantasy-epic
Fun In London - The "Doctor Who" Experience (Video & Game):
http://www.doctorwhoexperience.com/index.php
OTHER NEWS
Sony Pictures, Director Sam Mendes, and producer Barbara Broccoli have confirmed that the 23rd Bond movie will be titled "Skyfall", however the plot will not be tied into the Quantum continuity established by the two previous films. Filming started on Thursday and Daniel Craig is back as James Bond. The storyline revolves around the testing of Bond’s loyalty to M as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
In a recent online interview about Star Trek XII, Zachary Quinto said "We're getting geared up," "We're about 10 weeks away from production, so it's right around the corner. Things are moving quickly, so everybody is suiting up." "I haven't read a script yet," he added. "I'm going back to Los Angeles today and I'll dive back into, you know, connecting with J.J. and hearing where the stories are going to take us.
The filmmaker behind the robot short "Blinky", Ruairi Robinson, has landed his first feature film project, "The Last Days On Mars" tells of an astronaut crew on the last days of it's mission who discover collected rock specimens that reveal microscopic evidence of life. The film is currently in pre-production and is expected to start shooting early 2012 on location in Jordan and at Shepperton Studios in the UK.
The filmmaker behind the robot short "Blinky", Ruairi Robinson, has landed his first feature film project, "The Last Days On Mars" tells of an astronaut crew on the last days of it's mission who discover collected rock specimens that reveal microscopic evidence of life. The film is currently in pre-production and is expected to start shooting early 2012 on location in Jordan and at Shepperton Studios in the UK.
Screenwriter John Glenn has been brought onboard to put the finishing touches on the science fiction thriller "Abducted". The story centers around an alien abduction of a group of average Americans who decide to take on the aliens and battle their way off the extraterrestrial craft.
The planned "Logan's Run" reboot is going through writer changes again. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Andrew Baldwin has been hired to try and adapt the novel for a new version. Baldwin doesn’t have a long history of screen writing in Hollywood. He’s written several scripts but none have been produced as films.
Who knew extraterrestrials were football fans? UFOs were spotted in the skies above two football games in the United States in the past few weeks. A fan at a high school game in Scottsdale, Arizona videotaped several bright lights in the night sky. About a week earlier, a bright light was spotted by a television viewer of "Sunday Night Football". The viewer posted the video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0jcqw6-nZA&feature=player_embedded
Italian physicist and inventor Andrea Rossi has conducted a public demonstration of his cold fusion machine, the E-Cat, at the University of Bologna and invited physicists gave it a solid thumbs up. In the past the seemingly impossible process has been met with heavy skepticism, however the idea is an attractive energy solution for two reasons: Unlike nuclear fission, the reaction doesn't give off dangerous radiation. Unlike the fusion processes that take place in the sun, cold fusion doesn't require extremely high temperatures.
Italian physicist and inventor Andrea Rossi has conducted a public demonstration of his cold fusion machine, the E-Cat, at the University of Bologna and invited physicists gave it a solid thumbs up. In the past the seemingly impossible process has been met with heavy skepticism, however the idea is an attractive energy solution for two reasons: Unlike nuclear fission, the reaction doesn't give off dangerous radiation. Unlike the fusion processes that take place in the sun, cold fusion doesn't require extremely high temperatures.
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BOOK REVIEWS
"A Scanner Darkly" - Phillip K. Dick (1973):
"The New Universe And The Human Future" - Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack:
"The Ascendant Stars" - Micheal Cobley
SCIFI NEWS QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."- Henry Van Dyke (1909)
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