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Sunday, October 11, 2009

V Series Coming Back Next Month

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Somehow I missed this until I saw a TV commercial in a pub the other day. As an adolescent in the 80s, I was a huge fan of V, to the point...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Rocketship Circa 1990

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It's amazing how little the technology has changed! Both in terms of AI and cardboard perforation. Thanks to Sallie for the card. It o...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Foundation Movie

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I've said before "They have a Foundation movie already, except they added magic; it's called Star Wars." Matt Yglesias th...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The Singularity Will Be Powered by Wood

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Here .
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Battlefield Earth Is A Fun Movie

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Battlefield Earth is "widely considered" to be one of the worst movies of all time, but I don't share that assessment. Alien ...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Malcolm Gladwell Knows Why You Want Nanotech

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In his review of Chris Anderson's Free , Gladwell addresses Anderson's discussion of the 1950's optimism about atomic energy: t...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Late 70s/Early 80s Science Fiction: The Genre's Dark Period

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Recently I've been watching classic movies from this period and they strike me as uncannily dark. Of course there's Alien (1979) a...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Stop Talking to Aliens

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One of the perennially favored topics in "human-interest astronomy" stories is "what to say to aliens". Here's the ...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

If I Were Skynet, Here's What I'd Do

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I just got back from Terminator Salvation. I enjoyed myself because I expected an action film, not a deeply thought-out exploration of the ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

New Star Trek - Who Knew That The Borg Queen Is Spock's Mother?

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Whoops! I'm supposed to put SPOILER WARNING before stuff like that. To all those who saw this in an RSS feed somewhere, sorry! SPOILE...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

I Think I'm XKCD Now

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Click if you actually want to read it.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

A Junkyard Universal Deconstructor

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Ever read Accelerando ? It's one of those science fiction novels that'll annoy the hell out of you while you're reading it with...
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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Swimming Pool Solitons

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I'd written before about how it can be useful to replicate universe-scale phenomena in local media. Here's a paper where the auth...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Where To Find Von Neumann Probes - And How They Work

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Discussions of von Neumann probes tend, like this one, to be largely enterprises of idle speculation. That can be explained by there being ...
Saturday, December 20, 2008

Entropy: It's Not a Human Issue

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From Vienna's Zentralfriedhof: Worth posting on this blog, if nowhere else. And worth clicking on so you can see the inscription ab...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Mars, Antarctica, Jamestown: Environmental Constraints on Human Expansion

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A terraformed Mars. Too bad there's no way to get all that water there. (Image credit Daein Ballard) It's been said that the signifi...
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