[Dvice via Techeblog]

Now seriously, can't engineers stop doing their...engineering or whatever they do at their secret underwater lairs, and watch some sci-fi movies or TV series or at least Pigs In Space? What are they going to do when Monty's wife starts taking out the inhibitors from all the Roombas at the White House and they steal the launch codes? One word, people: Cylons. Or worse: Bender. [Anybots via BotJunkie]

If humans do start charging the batteries of an alien robot, Astronomer Jeffrey Bennett doubts it will resemble the tryst between Dr. Gaius Baltar and Number Six. "I think people get it wrong when they assume the aliens will be young lovelies," Shostak said. Instead, experts like David Levy-who's job is to write papers about humans and robots getting it on (TRUE!)-says we'll approach our love-making like we do our cars, with human-machine hybrids. And then we'll marry them. "My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," Levy said.

But enough fluff. In the end, a majority of researchers agree that the sure bet on alien life is with tiny microbes buried beneath the red sands of Mars or under the ice of our solar system's many moons. Then a whole new slew of questions will arise to muddy the issue. What defines life? Did it start on Mars? Does that make humans the real aliens? On second thought, forget the hot humanoid robots-I'm having an existential crisis here. [MSNBC]

BSG Spoiler List

• Lightsabers will debut this season.
• Cylons build a fully armed and operational battle station. From a distance, it looks like a moon.
• A Colonial Raptor lands in a new planet and one of Galactica's pilots gets attacked by some kind of bug that attaches to his face.
• Galactica flight deck crew install a new weapon in a Viper apparently called "Death Blossom."
• Galactica has a problem with its heating system, but another Colonial Raptor lands in a forest planet to discover a large population of small, bear-like creatures living on trees. They kill them all and make nice coats for everyone in the ship. Colonist rejoice. Viewers too.
• In the final episode, we discover that President Roslin is really a lizzard with fake skin (that was a given, quite frankly.)
• Galactica then arrives to Earth, only to discover a world full of monkeys. They also kill them all.
• In the final scene, Starbuck and Apollo discover the hand and the head of big woman statue, made out of copper, coming out of a beach's sand. They don't know what the frack that means, but finally make love next to it.
• Starbuck discovers she's Apollo's sister.

Frack! Shine a Light and now this. Adrenaline is pumping out of my ears. [Video from io9]

The projectors will apparently complement Sony's beast-like 4K projection systems, but do they really need the complement? Both units will have the same physical construction, and will include a choice of five specialized lenses, for optimal picture rendition. The VPL-FW300L and VPL-FH300L will retail at $27,000 and $40,000, respectively. If you have always wanted a projector that looks like an old-school Battlestar Galactica cannon, get saving. [Sony]

Other good things about the remake include Miguel Ferrer (the best thing about Twin Peaks if you're a pedantic numpty like me) and the fact that the Galactica team are behind the latest Jamie Sommers. Anyway, I'll shut up now and leave you to your thoughts, you dirty hounds.

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[Bionic Woman]

The catch? It doesn't look like you win anything, other than the commercial playing on national television. But to the uberfan, or anyone who hates DRM attitudes, this sounds like a pretty neat contest. – Mark Wilson

Nice job, SciFi.

Contest Page [via CDM]

Much better than Frosty the Snowdork, this $14.99 Snowbot is the perfect present for Xmas or Cylon day, whichever you celebrate. See out more pictures of the bot after the jump.

– Jason Chen

Product Page [ThinkGeek]

But with this addition to XBLM, Microsoft is finally warming up to the distribution of high-def content via Marketplace. Their main worry was that videos would take too long to download and clog up their already small 20GB hard drive. If there were any way to save these onto your computer, say, transferred through Ethernet, that would really free up some space. We think there will definitely be more HD entertainment content coming our way through the Xbox 360 soon.

Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to go fanboy all over this video. – Jason Chen

Video:Battlestar Galactica [Major Nelson]

These scientists, like all scientists, are thinking about sex with these improved robots and how we'll be able to regulate said robosexuals. Euron ethics group member Henrik Christensen ponders the idea after the jump (with awesome quotage).

How far should robots be allowed to influence people's lives? How can accidents be avoided? Can deliberate harm be prevented? And what happens if robots turn out to be sexy? "The question is what authority are we going to delegate to these machines?

"People are going to be having sex with robots within five years," he said. So should limits be set on the appearance, for example, of such robotic sex toys?

Definitely a conundrum here. However, I think we can all agree that if robots are going to look like the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica—Trisha Helfer, Grace Park, and Lucy Lawless—all these anti-robot-sex laws are going straight out the window. – Jason Chen

No sex please, robot, just clean the floor [Times Online]