io9 Roundup 6/28/2011

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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 »

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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 »


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The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must

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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 »


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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 »


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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 »


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Alternate ending to Limitless: Is Bradley Cooper heading for the ultimate hangover?

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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 »


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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 »


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Fishermen bag 23-foot-long giant squid off of Florida

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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 »


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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 »


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In comics, Green Arrow trades bows for missiles and House MD goes Lovecraft

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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 »


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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 »


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Jeff Bridges will bring The Giver to the big screen

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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 »


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What will Anne Hathaway's costume look like in the Dark Knight Rises?

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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 »


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True Blood's season premiere sneaks up on you from behind

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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 »