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Which HBO pilot has more nudity: True Blood or Game of Thrones?

Which HBO pilot has more ridiculous nudity: True Blood or Game of Thrones? We did the math. We counted up the nip-slips and ass shots, and compared the Dothraki’s naked dances to True Blood’s vampire sex tapes. Guess who won? NSFW clip breakdown below. One thing that stuck out to us after viewing the Game…

Television Meredith Woerner

Mysterious desert kites were the ancient world’s slaughterhouses

These are the remains of a “desert kite”, a giant animal corral built out of stones some 5,500 years ago. They were effectively the world’s first slaughterhouses, as dozens of animals at a time were herded inside and killed. Desert kites are just one of a number of archaeological sites that modern people only noticed…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

The strange case of the lost luchador-versus-Dracula nudie flick

Lucha libre superstar-crimefighter-detective-Renaissance man Santo defeated scads of fearsome monsters over the course of his 54-film career. Despite these harrowing battles, Santo always kept his movies family-friendly. He knew that mummy-fighting luchadores weren’t just entertainers — they were role models. https://gizmodo.com/santo-the-mexican-wrestler-who-fought-aliens-nazis-a-5521172 Given Santo’s stance, it should come as no surprise that for many years an…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Enormous waterjet boat could be the next generation of warships

Waterjet boats are propelled by a fast jet of water that’s forced through pumps and shot out of the back of the ship. And now the military is implanting this technology in huge boats to make them achieve super speeds. The ferry you see here is a concept design from Incat, and is under construction…

io9 Annalee Newitz

R.I.P. Elisabeth Sladen, Doctor Who’s Apprentice

Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith in Doctor Who and two spin-off shows, has died, according to BBC News. Her death is a huge loss to Doctor Who fans, and to fans of strong female adventure heroes everywhere. It’s hard to overstate how important Elisabeth Sladen was to Doctor Who, and how much she…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The galaxy’s hottest planet uses a shockwave shield to save its atmosphere

The exoplanet WASP-12b, located 867 light-years from Earth, is just two million miles away from its star. It has a surface temperature of 4000 degrees Fahrenheit, and it has to take some seriously extreme measures to keep its atmosphere intact. Researchers at the Open University discovered that WASP-12b appeared to have a giant cloud of…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Siberian alien on YouTube revealed to be an edible fake made out of bread and chicken

Over the last several days, YouTube has gone absolutely bonkers over footage of an alien corpse found in the Russian village of Kamensk. Sadly, this body has more in common with a chicken nugget than ET. The fellow who supposedly stumbled upon the alien confessed when the police came a-knocking. From Russia Today: The tiny…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What would William Shatner and Bryan Singer’s Star Trek TV shows have been about?

After Star Trek: Enterprise finally lurched into its grave, everybody had ideas for restoring Star Trek to its former television glory. And, as Jonathan Frakes mentioned a while back, both William Shatner and Bryan Singer pitched TV shows. https://gizmodo.com/william-shatner-and-jonathan-frakes-both-pitched-star-t-5790302 So what would Shatner and Singer’s TV shows have been about? Here’s what we’ve been able…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Latest Facebook Game Forgoes Farming For Sex, Drugs, Big Brother and Politics

Loaded with actors from shows like LOST, Alias and 24, America 2049 is part live-action video game, part human rights activist campaign.… [Kotaku]

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Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Dark Knight Characters: Suspiciously Inconspicuous

For months, we’ve been speculating on who Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt might play in Chris Nolan’s final Batman movie. Well, guess no more — both actors’ roles have been revealed. And they’re almost too bland, if you ask us… The Hollywood Reporter has announced the official casting of Cotillard and JGL in The Dark…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Neil Gaiman explains why his Doctor Who episode is a “game-changer”

Doctor Who season six starts this week, and there are so many reasons to be excited, including Mark Sheppard and more River Song. But there’s also the fact that award-winning fantasy author Neil Gaiman has written one episode. We were lucky enough to get a few minutes with Gaiman at Wondercon and here’s what he…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

This bug-eyed robot just wants to move like people do

This is Sarcos, a robot Carnegie Mellon grad student Ben Stephens is teaching to emulate human movements using motion capture technology. Check out this unblinking bot mimic human dancing in this clip. Stephens is specializing in teaching robots how to balance themselves, so you know who to blame when the machines start learning parkour. For…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Watch the secret J.J. Abrams video hidden inside Portal 2

We’ve seen J.J. Abrams’ mysterious midnight monster train explode from multiple angles. But what about from inside the train? Hidden in Portal 2’s video game extras is some CG footage from inside the monster’s train ride. Watch it now. Clever move Paramount hiding Super 8 material in the hotly anticipated Portal 2 game. But what…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Watch new sunspots bubble up and grow on the solar surface

This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory tracks five new sunspots as they twist and turn on the Sun’s surface. Amazingly, all of these sunspots are bigger than the Earth and have more energy than a million nuclear bombs. Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy offers this helpful explanation: Taken over the course of two…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins

Game of Thrones Renewed for a Second Season

Winter is coming — again! HBO already made the decision to renew Game of Thrones for a second season, after the first episode garnered an estimated 4.2 million gross viewers on premiere night. (I’m guessing the “gross” thing refers not to the personal hygiene of the viewers, but to the fact that HBO showed the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Wednesday gives us a sneak peek at Frank Miller’s 300 prequel…and Marijuanaman!

Just in time for 4/20, Ziggy Marley’s THC-themed superhero drops by comic stores to trick crooks into thinking they’re dying (so they’ll call 911 on themselves). Plus, new Peter Bagge and a metric bongload of new graphic novels! First Issues The most promising new comic this week is the return Dark Horse Presents. The latest…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

When should a book’s cover mention that it’s the second one in a series?

Do authors and publishers have an obligation to make it clear to readers up front that a newly published book is actually one of the middle books in an ongoing series? Or should they do that only if, say, a book resolves a cliffhanger from the previous book and ends with another cliffhanger, or has…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Could you stop tornadoes before they start?

The past few days have seen hundreds of tornadoes touching down in the southeastern United States, driven by massive storms. We talked about the megastorms with atmospheric scientist Karen Kosiba, whose work is showcased in documentary Tornado Alley. Kosiba is a researcher at the Center for Severe Weather Research in Colorado, where she studies ground-level…

io9 Annalee Newitz

See the lights of Tokyo, before and after the earthquake

YouTuber Darwinfish105 (who made that stunning time-lapse video of Japan’s Gundam statue) now shows us the lights of Tokyo before and after March’s earthquake and tsunami. The metropolis’ lights have dimmed due to power shortages and energy conservation efforts. https://gizmodo.com/this-giant-gundam-time-lapse-video-makes-an-excellent-c-5607693 [Darwinfish105 via Pink Tentacle]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

What I Am Legend would have looked like with non-CG monsters

Here is video proof that I Am Legend would have been a lot better with practical monsters. Watch this makeup test for an I Am Legend plague zombie, that the film-makers passed over in favor of a CG army. Steve Johnson, whose behind the scenes work on The Abyss and in Ang Lee’s Hulk we’ve…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Which HBO pilot has more nudity: True Blood or Game of Thrones?

Mysterious desert kites were the ancient world’s slaughterhouses

The strange case of the lost luchador-versus-Dracula nudie flick

Enormous waterjet boat could be the next generation of warships

R.I.P. Elisabeth Sladen, Doctor Who’s Apprentice

The galaxy’s hottest planet uses a shockwave shield to save its atmosphere

Siberian alien on YouTube revealed to be an edible fake made out of bread and chicken

What would William Shatner and Bryan Singer’s Star Trek TV shows have been about?

The Latest Facebook Game Forgoes Farming For Sex, Drugs, Big Brother and Politics

Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Dark Knight Characters: Suspiciously Inconspicuous

Neil Gaiman explains why his Doctor Who episode is a “game-changer”

This bug-eyed robot just wants to move like people do

Watch the secret J.J. Abrams video hidden inside Portal 2

Watch new sunspots bubble up and grow on the solar surface

Game of Thrones Renewed for a Second Season

Wednesday gives us a sneak peek at Frank Miller’s 300 prequel…and Marijuanaman!

When should a book’s cover mention that it’s the second one in a series?

Could you stop tornadoes before they start?

See the lights of Tokyo, before and after the earthquake

What I Am Legend would have looked like with non-CG monsters

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