Cyriaque Lamar, Author at Gizmodo

io9 readers transform eye-gougingly bad X-Men posters into works of art

Several days ago, we were absolutely baffled by the lamentable posters for X-Men: First Class, which depict silhouettes of Charles Xavier and Magneto incubating their own giant heads. https://gizmodo.com/everyone-hates-the-new-x-men-posters-think-you-can-do-5780221 We turned to our readers and asked them to redesign First Class’ aesthetically bankrupt posters. The io9ers pulled through with panache. Some of you redesigned the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 20

Avengers family tree explains how Iron Man is connected to Squirrel Girl

Joe Stone is a man on a mission. After designing family trees for the X-Men and Fantastic Four, he’s drafted this diagram for the Avengers, which highlights the sexual exploits Aunt May and the Avengers’ venerable manservant Jarvis.* https://gizmodo.com/x-men-family-tree-breaks-down-mutant-mating-habits-with-5735116 https://gizmodo.com/fantastic-four-family-tree-teaches-that-all-roads-lead-5765591 *Hey, cut them some slack. Almost nobody ages in the Marvel Universe, so they’re among…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 20

How much radiation do you absorb doing everyday tasks? This helpful chart explains

Randall Munroe of xkcd fame has drafted this handy chart that puts in perspective how much radiation humans receive from commonplace activites (such as eating a banana) and less ordinary situations (spending one hour outside of Chernobyl, for example). Notes Munroe, “I don’t include too much about the Fukushima reactor because the situation seems to…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 20

What’s the best way to update Aesop’s Fables? Underwater cosplay

At the COEX Aquarium in Seoul, aquarium officials reenacted Aesop’s race between the tortoise and the hare. A sea turtle represented the tortoise, whereas the scuba diver in a rabbit costume stood in for a particularly speedy specimen of Aplysiomorpha (not really). [Via Buzzfeed]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 20

Who is Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing in The Dark Knight Rises?

We’ve heard this rumor bandied about for a while now, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s likely role in the next Bat-flick was leaked this weekend. Spoilers ahead! According to Variety, Gordon-Levitt will play Alberto Falcone (a.k.a. “the Holiday Killer”) in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Who is Falcone? In Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s 1996 miniseries…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Mar 20

NASA employees make a human spaceship in the Kennedy Center parking lot

Last Friday, one-thousand-plus NASA employees convened in the parking lot outside of the Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building to create a human spaceship for the Space Shuttle Program’s 30th anniversary, thus marking the agency’s first inroads into biomechanical starships. Hat tip to Liz!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

Four fascinating documentaries about nuclear power

Curious about Uranium mining or the biological ramifications of nuclear pollution? Here’s an assortment of enlightening documentaries that will fill you in on sundry nuclear topics (and some of them can be watched online). Into Eternity This 2009 documentary takes a look at Finland’s underground Onkalo nuclear storage facility (above) and the precautions the Finnish…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

The never-was 1000 MPH transcontinental railroad from New York to Los Angeles

Here’s another speculative transit project right up there with that underground bullet train between New York and Philly. In 1948, Modern Mechanics showcased this supersonic cross-continental rocket train. You could go from NYC to LA in three hours! At 1,000-mph your train will travel as fast as the sun in its apparent motion across the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

How would you invent the Fantastic Four from scratch?

What if you were the artist of the first issue of Fantastic Four and had to design the characters with no knowledge other than the fact that they’re somewhat mutated astronauts? Warren Ellis posed this question to designers in his Whitechapel Forums, and the artists came up with teams completely different from Reed Richards and…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

Sucker Punch concept art shows off Zack Snyder’s samurai robot in exquisite detail

We’ve sung the praises of Jerad Marantz’s fantastic concept art before. Now check out the mecha, orcs, and shogun robots Marantz designed for Zack Snyder’s sanitarium-and-schoolgirls escape flick Sucker Punch. We’re pretty sure bushido-borgs weren’t exactly in vogue in the 1950s, but when Marantz is drawing them, we certainly aren’t complaining. You can see more…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

Iran rounds out its mad scientist air cavalry with Zohal the flying saucer

According to the state-affiliated Fars News Agency, Iran has built an unmanned flying saucer for surveillance purposes. And yes, the above photo is the shot of Zohal that’s being circulated by the press: The unmanned flying saucer, named “Zohal”, was unveiled in a ceremony attended by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 19

The largest full moon in almost 30 years will light up the night sky this Saturday

On Saturday March 19, we will be treated the largest full moon in some time. Don’t worry about this perigee moon causing tidal weirdness — this extra-large moon will simply be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than apogee moons. Notes NASA: The best time to look is when the Moon is near the horizon. That…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 16

Bradley Cooper gives us the plus side of taking experimental (and possibly fatal) brain drugs

You may remember Bradley Cooper from such rugged roles as Will Tippin from Alias and Face from The A-Team. In Friday’s pharmaceutical thriller Limitless, he plays a luckless everyman who develops hyper-intelligence thanks to an illicit brain drug. In Limitless, Cooper plays author Eddie Morra, who takes a black market, non-FDA approved cognition enhancer known…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 16

Cybernetic exoskeleton creator flaunts this season’s latest models

Remember Cyberdyne’s HAL exoskeleton that allows you to control a pair of robotic legs with your mind? Cyberdyne recently showcased several of these models in motion. Someday you too can sport a pair of cherry red super-calves. [Diginfo via IEEE Spectrum]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 16

How to advertise your business: trap thousands of cockroaches in a sign that says E. Coli

Well, this tactic only works if you’re an exterminator. On Monday in Dallas, Terminix filled a billboard emblazoned with the words “E. COLI” with several thousand roaches (the roaches got 15-minute breaks as a reprieve from the heat). As Copyranter points out, this stunt is right up there with a New Zealand advertisement for Knocked…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 16

10 script revisions the Spider-Man musical needs desperately

Referring to Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark as a train wreck is both a tautology and inaccurate. After all, never in human history have two trains — upon crashing — suddenly morphed Voltron-style into a patchwork homunculus made of stray bits of caboose and bar car who suddenly begins bellowing, “THIS LOOKS BAD BUT WE…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 16

Where did Batman go to college?

According to the editors of Yale Alumni Magazine — which has devoted three separate articles to the topic, in an attempt to court fictional alumnus ducats — Bruce Wayne received a law degree from Yale. Comic historian Chip Kidd lays out the single panel of evidence… It is a detail of the last panel of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 15

In downtown Caracas, 2500 people live in an abandoned 45-story skyscraper

The Centro Financiero Confinanzas (a.k.a. “the David Tower,” named after its investor David Brillembourg) stands half-complete in downtown Caracas and is Venezuela’s third largest skyscraper. After the Venezuelan banking industry went belly up in 1994, construction was halted indefinitely, and ownership of the unfinished David Tower reverted to the government. Since then, 2500 squatters have…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 15

George R.R. Martin (and his dancing ghost) get the zany Taiwanese news treatment

Once again, Taiwan’s NMA News prove that they’re the future of infotainment with their flabbergasting machinima explanation of George R.R. Martin’s literary foibles. They even gave a shout out to “George R.R. Martin Is Not Your Bitch!” Hat tip to Xenon Bill!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 15

Wednesday’s comics bring us icepunk adventures and nanotech gone haywire

This week’s comic haul bring us the return of one of DC’s great Milestone comics, a pre-steampunk fable from French comics maestro Jacques Tardi, and oodles more for you, oh intrepid reader. First Issues First off, John Rozum and Frazier Irving bring back Xombi (DC) — be sure to read our recent interview with Rozum…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Mar 15

Cyriaque Lamar

io9 readers transform eye-gougingly bad X-Men posters into works of art

Avengers family tree explains how Iron Man is connected to Squirrel Girl

How much radiation do you absorb doing everyday tasks? This helpful chart explains

What’s the best way to update Aesop’s Fables? Underwater cosplay

Who is Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing in The Dark Knight Rises?

NASA employees make a human spaceship in the Kennedy Center parking lot

Four fascinating documentaries about nuclear power

The never-was 1000 MPH transcontinental railroad from New York to Los Angeles

How would you invent the Fantastic Four from scratch?

Sucker Punch concept art shows off Zack Snyder’s samurai robot in exquisite detail

Iran rounds out its mad scientist air cavalry with Zohal the flying saucer

The largest full moon in almost 30 years will light up the night sky this Saturday

Bradley Cooper gives us the plus side of taking experimental (and possibly fatal) brain drugs

Cybernetic exoskeleton creator flaunts this season’s latest models

How to advertise your business: trap thousands of cockroaches in a sign that says E. Coli

10 script revisions the Spider-Man musical needs desperately

Where did Batman go to college?

In downtown Caracas, 2500 people live in an abandoned 45-story skyscraper

George R.R. Martin (and his dancing ghost) get the zany Taiwanese news treatment

Wednesday’s comics bring us icepunk adventures and nanotech gone haywire

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