Footage of Alpha the Robot, the would-be mechanical assassin of the 1930s
You may have heard of Alpha the (trigger-happy) Robot and that time he posed with a group of nudists (NSFW), but have you ever seen this mechanical man move? Matt Novak of the Paleofuture Blog shows us Alpha in motion. In 1932 American newspapers started publishing wildly exaggerated stories about a British robot named Alpha…
Enter the Void = a DMT-fueled journey through a kaleidoscopic Tokyo
Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void is a complex and challenging synesthesic roller-coaster ride that combines New Age cosmic fatalism, old-school psychedelia and state of the art digital film making to produce a masterpiece of modern nihilism. It is a tale told by a genius, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The film, which came…
Are we ever going to use antimatter to drive a starship?
Are we ever going to use antimatter to drive a starship? The question is tantalizing because while chemical reactions liberate about one part in a billion of the energy trapped inside matter – and even nuclear reactions spring only about one percent of that energy free – antimatter promises to release what Frank Close calls…