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Cloud or UFO? You be the judge.

In this gallery, photographers show us unidentified cloudy objects. These are clouds that look so weird that it’s as if some kind of alien vessel shaped them. And who knows? Maybe one did. One of the truly great things about Flickr is that you can search for “UFO cloud” and get over 6,000 results. Here…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Was Area 51 a conspiracy between Stalin and Joseph Mengele?

Did two of the most evil Joes of the 20th century team up to troll America with fake child aliens? According to author Annie Jacobsen’s new book Area 51, Stalin and Mengele collaborated on a Cold War of the Worlds. According to Jacobsen, Stalin was inspired by the extraterrestrial hysteria following Orson Welles’ 1938 War…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Mer-physics: How real-life mermaids would experience the world

We all know that mermaids can perform underwater musical numbers. But how would a real-life mermaid sing underwater? And hear music? Find out in our guide to underwater physics for mermaid chasers. Above the surface of the water, merfolk sense things the same way humans do. They see through human-enough eyes, and hear sound propagated…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

The Plot of Monsters Inc. 2 Revealed!

We’ve patiently waited for any news on the rumored Monsters Inc. sequel. Whispers of a “Monsters Inc. University” storyline were circulating, but now the whole plot has been leaked! According to The Disney Blog the movie does have a University bent to it, but instead of Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. Sullivan (John…

Movies Meredith Woerner

New Trailers and Promos for Super 8, X-Men, Harry Potter, Iron Sky and Doctor Who! Plus Photos of An Iconic Spider-Man Moment

X-Men: First Class’s Caleb Landry Jones explains how his portrayal of Banshee includes lots of nods to the original comics. New Amazing Spider-Man set photos reveal an iconic moment. Plus new trailers for Super 8, Harry Potter, and more! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Doctor Who. Green Lantern In a statement that…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Miramax Classes Up Netflix with Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, and Other Oscar Faves

I know. Sometimes Netflix Watch Instantly seems like an endless stream of Daddy Daycare sequels, as more and more studios strip away the good stuff. But take heart! Miramax just signed a multi-year agreement that’s going to deliver lots of high-quality movies starring people with cool accents, starting in June. Hundreds of titles are included…

Movies Brian Barrett

Masters of the Universe toy art will make a He-Man out of you

When it came to selling action figures depicting a friendly barbarian and his mutated, alternate dimension pals, Mattel spared no expense on the artwork. Here are some ridiculous detailed tableaus depicting the Master of the Universe and his wild gang. If this artwork strikes a chord, check out some concept art from the TV show,…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

The next atomic clocks could keep accurate time for the entire life of the universe

The atomic clocks we’ve already got are marvels of precision timekeeping, but their successors could be something else altogether, losing less than a second every 80 billion years. That could allow us to probe some of physics’s most fundamental questions. Anyone who has ever had to wind a watch knows that, over time, clocks will…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The constellations come out to play above the Very Large Telescope

These buildings are three of the structures that make up the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, located in Chile’s Atacama Desert. In the skies above them are the constellations Orion, Canis Major, and the Southern Cross, among many others. This is just a section of Yuri Beletsky’s full photograph, which reveals the entire Milky…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Witness the semi-choreographed madness of the 1980s Marvel Comics parade floats

Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has returned to the Great White Way with serious script revamps, but this isn’t the first time Spidey’s retooled his act for a Manhattan audience. http://gawker.com/5801702/made+over-spider+man-musical-manages-to-not-kill-anyone-on-its-first-night-back Spider-Man — along with Power Man, Dr. Doom, Captain America, Enchantress, Silver Surfer, Magneto, and uh, Robocop — made guest appearances on Marvel Comics’…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Watch the first footage from NBC’s new fall genre shows, Grimm and Awake

NBC has jumped this week’s upfront celebration early! They’ve already released photos and clips from their two new Fall 2011 genre shows: the magical cop procedural Grimm and the alternate reality drama Awake (starring Lucius Malfoy)! Watch them now! Grimm The magical police procedural Grimm is about a detective who finds out he’s part of…

Television Meredith Woerner

Nathan Fillion launches a new electric car: “It looks a little like a spaceship. I’m kind of into spaceships.”

If you’ve been feeling deprived of the sight of Nathan Fillion aboard a space buggy, then here’s an awesome picture of Captain Tightpants showing off the prototype of a new three-wheeled electric car. The highest end version of the Arcimoto “Red 5” SRV can go up to 160 miles on a single battery charge and…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Using home movies, man time-travels 35 years into the past in 6.5 minutes

For a terrifically long-term video project, Sam Klemke filmed himself every year for 35 years. He then ran these clips in reverse order to simulate himself traveling backwards in time. Watch him de-age three decades in less than 10 minutes. [Via Boing Boing]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Take a video tour of the dilapidated tourist towns of the Salton Sea

We recently took a video tour of southern California’s Salvation Mountain. Now Ransom Riggs has created a short film about the nearby Salton Sea, a one-time vacation hotspot that’s fallen on hard environmental and financial times. https://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-salvation-mountain-the-rainbow-hued-god-cav-5800339 https://gizmodo.com/the-salton-sea-is-like-mad-max-with-beachfront-views-5499665 Hat tip to Jean!

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Why does the Moon make scorpions glow in the dark?

Between their pincers and poisonous stingers, you’d really think that scorpions are already more than scary enough for one species. But that still leaves their unearthly – and unexplained – ability to glow a strange blue color in ultraviolet light. Scorpions have the rather unusual ability of fluorescence, giving them an eerie blue color if…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Grimm Photos

David Giuntoli – Det. Nick Burkhardt Russell Hornsby – Lt. Hank Griffin Silas Weir – Mitchell Eddy Munroe Sasha Roiz – Captain Renard Bitsie Tullock – Juliette Silverton Reggie Lee – Sgt. Wu

Television Meredith Woerner

Colliding white dwarfs give each other a new lease on life

White dwarfs are the ultra-dense husks of stars like our own, dying remnants that are just a pale shadow of their former glory. But when two white dwarfs come together, they can create something very special: a brand new star. About 90% of all stars eventually become white dwarfs, which have nearly the mass of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

A tween girl designed the coolest TARDIS console yet

Check out the awesomeness of this incredibly weird TARDIS console, complete with coat-hanger, skipping rope and telephone wires that make tea. And satnav! It’s the work of Susannah Leah, a young viewer of the BBC’s Blue Peter program. Spoilers ahead… Susannah’s design was featured in yesterday’s Doctor Who adventure, “The Doctor’s Wife.” The BBC just…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s never-made adaptation of Dune is getting a documentary

While we’re on the topic of Dalí, news has come out of the Cannes Festival that director Frank Pavich is making a documentary titled Jodorowsky’s Dune that delves into the history of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s doomed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel. https://gizmodo.com/watch-destino-salvador-dalis-cartoon-team-up-with-walt-5802008 Before the 1974-1976 project went belly up, Jodorowsky’s production team for Dune was perhaps…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Watch Destino, Salvador Dalí’s cartoon team-up with Walt Disney

In 1946, Salvador Dalí collaborated with Walt Disney animators on Destino, a surrealist animation that was storyboarded but scrapped due to budgetary concerns. Destino wouldn’t be finished until 2003, when Roy Disney resurrected the project. Melting clocks à la Disney! [Via The Wooster Collective]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Cloud or UFO? You be the judge.

Was Area 51 a conspiracy between Stalin and Joseph Mengele?

Mer-physics: How real-life mermaids would experience the world

The Plot of Monsters Inc. 2 Revealed!

New Trailers and Promos for Super 8, X-Men, Harry Potter, Iron Sky and Doctor Who! Plus Photos of An Iconic Spider-Man Moment

Miramax Classes Up Netflix with Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, and Other Oscar Faves

Masters of the Universe toy art will make a He-Man out of you

The next atomic clocks could keep accurate time for the entire life of the universe

The constellations come out to play above the Very Large Telescope

Witness the semi-choreographed madness of the 1980s Marvel Comics parade floats

Watch the first footage from NBC’s new fall genre shows, Grimm and Awake

Nathan Fillion launches a new electric car: “It looks a little like a spaceship. I’m kind of into spaceships.”

Using home movies, man time-travels 35 years into the past in 6.5 minutes

Take a video tour of the dilapidated tourist towns of the Salton Sea

Why does the Moon make scorpions glow in the dark?

Grimm Photos

Colliding white dwarfs give each other a new lease on life

A tween girl designed the coolest TARDIS console yet

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s never-made adaptation of Dune is getting a documentary

Watch Destino, Salvador Dalí’s cartoon team-up with Walt Disney

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