Category: Science Fiction
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Yeesh. Bad news on the culture *and* economic fronts: ‘You’re probably going to see a dumbed down version’: Amazon Diluting Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40K Series Like They Did With ‘The Rings of Power’? Nobody knows *anything* about Amazons 40K adaptation yet… but basically everyone assumes that it’ll be trash. not because of the soruce material,…
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“You are who you choose to be.” “Superman.” The question I’ve seen asked before: “why didn’t the giant simply blast the missile?” Because he chose to be Superman, and Superman isn’t a gun (let’s ignore the “heat vision” for just a second). This guy’s channel is definitely worth watching. He also had the correct response…
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AARRRGH, blather, Crazy, Dumbassery, Forward, Gah, News, Politics, Religion, rockets, Science Fiction, spacecraft, Worldwreckers, ಠ_ಠ
Are you ready for the *dumbest* thing you’ll read today? Prepare yourselves… End ‘colonial’ approach to space exploration, scientists urge Short response: eat me. Longer response: let’s take a look at what this idea is, shall we? But Dr Pamela Conrad of the Carnegie Institution of Science said the focus should shift away from seeking…
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Augmented Reality (AR) Sandbox Yes, there are practical applications here for agricultural planning, water engineering, etc. But let’s face it: if this was affordable, this sort of thing would be used far more by people designing their own worlds for role playing games, sci-fi, fantasy, etc. Responsive digital effects superimposed onto this augmented reality sandbox…
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Turns out the AI are learning to code. Two immediate takeaways from that: 1) There goes another career path. 2) Dear Sweet Baby Jeebus, have none of these people ever watched *any* science fiction? Giving an AI that has a demonstrated lack of morality the ability to re-write itself is the very height of “I…
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Based on the first episode it… doesn’t suck??? After the godawful STD, the first 2 seasons of STP and even the supposed “return to form” that was the first season of Strange New Worlds, there was little reason for any Star Trek fan to hold out any hope for anything resembling “quality Star Trek”…
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So there’s this forthcoming movie, “Space Oddity.” The premise is that a guy is selected for a one-way mission to Mars. This is not an unrealistic idea… for every colonization mission throughout history there have been people – lots of people – who went on a one-way trip. That’s how we colonized the entire planet,…
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Man made horrors beyond your conception brought to you by AI:
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So by this point it should not be a spoiler that a flashback at the beginning of episode 2 of HBO’s “The Last Of Us” has a scientist realize just what biological horror has been unleashed in Jakarta, Indonesia. In short, it’s a mutated fungus that essentially kicks off a zombie apocalypse. There is no…
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I haven’t seen it, so don’t blame me. But this reviewer *really* didn’t like it: Don’t watch ‘Star Trek: Picard’ season three, it’ll only encourage them The third season is yet another misguided waste of everyone’s time. Whoa. The previews look better than the first two execrable seasons, but that’s a low bar indeed. I…
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