THE STAR CRUISER COMES TO TOWN | And everybody in the hillside town looks up in wonder. Concept art by Roph Ruppel, via Fuck Yeah Spaceship.
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Get a good awesome look at David Tennant, Vampire Hunter
See what the vampire-hunting David Tennant looks like, sans ridiculous wig and silly Las Vegas magician get up. It’s not looking good for Collin Farrell’s evil vampire. More »
Birds are the first non-human animals to use grammar
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There are lots of animals, including dogs and apes, that can communicate in something we might understand as sentences. But only one non-human species has complex enough communication that they actually need grammatical rules. More »
The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
https://gizmodo.com/the-case-for-mars-the-plan-to-settle-the-red-planet-an-5812255
Fifteen years ago, aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin published The Case for Mars, and issued a clarion call to his fellow scientists, and the people of Earth. More »
The Cowboys & Aliens Movie That Never Was
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A “Calamity Jane”-inspired cowgirl lassos a big alien reptile, in some concept art from Cowboys and Aliens. But wait – there aren’t any big reptilian animals in Jon Favreau’s movie, are there? It turns out Cowboys and Aliens has been in development as a movie a lot longer than anybody realized. More »
Why is this optical illusion hardwired into our brain?
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The Motion Aftereffect is an optical illusion in which stationary objects appear to be in motion if a person has just been looking at a moving background. More »
Alternate ending to Limitless: Is Bradley Cooper heading for the ultimate hangover?
https://kotaku.com/alternate-ending-to-limitless-is-bradley-cooper-headin-5816316
Did you think the ending of Limitless was too neat and tidy? Did you think Bradley Cooper got off too lightly after spiraling down the rabbit hole of brain-enhancement drugs and superdickery? More »
100 years ago today, a meteorite (possibly) vaporized a dog in Egypt
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Here’s a bizarre milestone. On June 28, 1911, a meteorite fell over the outskirts of Alexandria, Egypt. The meteorite broke into several smaller rocks, one of which may have reduced a dog to a burnt smear. More »
Fishermen bag 23-foot-long giant squid off of Florida
https://gizmodo.com/fishermen-bag-23-foot-long-giant-squid-off-of-florida-5816266
Last Sunday, fisherman 12 miles off the coast of Stuart, Flordia found themselves with a mollusk of a tale to tell some folks – they had hooked a specimen of Architeuthis Dux, or the Atlantic Giant Squid. More »
10 Avengers Villains We’d Love to See Joss Whedon Tackle
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Who will be the ultimate villains in Joss Whedon’s Avengers movie? Nobody really knows, even though speculation and rumors have been flying faster than a million quinjets. Which makes this the perfect time to assemble our own wishlist of Avengers villains that we’d like to see Whedon tackle. More »
In comics, Green Arrow trades bows for missiles and House MD goes Lovecraft
https://gizmodo.com/in-comics-green-arrow-trades-bows-for-missiles-and-hou-5816204
In the summertime, nothing beats a stack of ice-cold comics. Seriously, just put them in your freezer for two hours and slap them on your naked flesh like a tuxedo. More »
Hipster Lord of the Rings, where the Nazgul ride fixies!
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Hipster Lord of the Rings, where the Nazgul ride fixies! More »
Jeff Bridges will bring The Giver to the big screen
https://gizmodo.com/jeff-bridges-will-bring-the-giver-to-the-big-screen-5816118
The Dude has nabbed the rights to the influential novel The Giver by Lois Lowry. Bridges hopes to play the title role – the one person chosen to feel for the whole of a future community. Variety is reporting that Bridges is ready to produce and star in this movie adaptation of the book. More »
What will Anne Hathaway’s costume look like in the Dark Knight Rises?
https://gizmodo.com/what-will-anne-hathaways-costume-look-like-in-the-dark-5816093
Joe Johnston explains how they turned Chris Evans into a 90-pound weakling for Captain America, while Kevin Feige explains the movie’s earnest tone. Guillermo del Toro discusses the half-dozen projects he’s working on, including what’s next for Mountains of Madness. Spoilers from here on out! More »
True Blood’s season premiere sneaks up on you from behind
https://gizmodo.com/true-bloods-season-premiere-sneaks-up-on-you-from-behin-5815939
True Blood is back! The first episode of the season started with a bang that rocketed us all to Faerieville. But don’t worry, it had us back in time to be sexually assaulted by Eric. More »
