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Today we’ll find out if aliens hijacked Voyager 2

Communications troubles with space probe Voyager 2 – a vessel containing “we are here” messages for aliens – inspired speculation that ET had commandeered the vessel. But NASA calls it a technical glitch. Today is the moment of truth. The furor began last month when the probe, which sends back regular updates to Earth, began…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The art that inspired Godzilla and other giant monsters

Toho’s monsters don’t begin their existences as bodysuits. Illustrators must first sketch out every atomic spike, nuclear fang, and cybernetic proboscis adorning their rubbery hides. Check out Toho’s designs for such classic kaiju as Mechagodzilla, Mothra, and Ghidorah. There’s loads more concept art at the blog Toho Kingdom from both old-school and modern Godzilla flicks.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Join your pals from io9 and Laughing Squid at our NYC meetup 5/25

io9 is joining forces with urban culture blog Laughing Squid to host a late happy hour meetup next Tuesday in glamorous, futuristic New York City. Meet io9 staffers, mingle with commenters, and exchange drunken quips about Lost. Here are the details! io9/Laughing Squid Meetup Where: The Magician Bar, 118 Rivington St., NYC, back room When:…

io9 Annalee Newitz

“All The President’s Vampires” novel Blood Oath getting a big-screen adaptation

Christopher Farnsworth’s vampire thriller Blood Oath is getting made into a film. But before you throw your hands up and exclaim, “Not another vampire movie,” this one is at least promising bloody West Wing espionage, and that’s something, right? Heatvision, is reporting that Blood Oath the vampire novel about a “blood oath” which one vampire…

io9 Meredith Woerner

What if Doctor Who were a Disney movie?

Can you imagine Britain’s quirky time-travel show made into a Walt Disney movie? Commenter Cristoval did, and the result was this “purposefully terrible” poster. Check out a better look at his his Disneyfied Daleks, below. Here are the Disney Daleks: And a “clean” look at the poster, with no titles: The scary thing is, you…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Old-school space playgrounds were awesome and/or death traps

We recently posted the greatest intergalactic play-fort of all time. Here are some more spaced-out playplaces, replete with robots, spaceships, tetanus, fractured sternums, and lawsuits waiting to happen. https://gizmodo.com/photographic-evidence-that-your-childhood-may-have-been-5534721 Out of all these playgrounds, Giganta the robot blows the competition away. Let me count the ways: 1.) Killer slogan – “A robot that automatically produces…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

An International Space Station-sized blot on the Sun

Photographer Thierry Legault captured this picture of the International Space Station and the shuttle Atlantis as their orbit took them in front of the sun — a transit that lasted all of a half a second. Those two specks in the upper right are Atlantis and the ISS. According to Discover Magazine’s Phil Plait: Atlantis…

io9 Marc Bernardin

V gets shoved to ABC’s midseason line-up

Alien series V may have picked up for a second season but the new episodes won’t be starting until midseason for ABC, which is quite a ways away. [TV] https://gizmodo.com/v-picked-up-for-a-second-season-5538692

io9 Meredith Woerner

Behold…the cheesetastic charms of Manborg!

Inspired by a love of the craptacular scifi classics of the ’80s, Canadian filmmaking collective Astron-6 Video have unleashed a trailer for their latest — a gloriously cheesy gem of hackery called Manborg. Oh, man…it’s all there: stop-motion wizardry, kung-fu fisticuffs, space mutants, “bad” blue-screen work. Manborg feels like an old VHS clamshell you’d pull…

io9 Marc Bernardin

Jemaine Clement will challenge Vincent D’Onofrio for best Men In Black villain

Jemaine Clement, best known for his work on Flight of The Concords, has a knack for dickish characters, so we’re extra-excited that he’s playing the villain of Men In Black 3. The Hollywood Reporter explained that Clement is in final negotiations to play the new MIB 3 villain. After his latest gig as the villain…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Thor’s Hammer was discovered in 1964…in Quebec

In 1964, archaeologist Thomas E. Lee discovered a 10.8-foot tall, 4,000 pound stone cross on the Arnaud River in far northern Quebec. Lee dubbed this sculpture “Thor’s Hammer,” as he assumed the monolith was of Viking origin. Although modern scholars are unsure of the sculpture’s true purpose (it appears to point to stone remains nearby)…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Fighting fears with augmented-reality roaches

If fear is the mind killer, as Muad’dib explained, the routes for banishing those fears are equally devastating — it usually means confronting them. But a new Spanish study, using virtual roaches, might unlock a less grody path. Six subjects in a Spanish experiment, subjects with a severe fear of cockroaches, exhibited a severe level…

io9 Marc Bernardin

First look at Cowboys And Aliens, and NPH on The Smurfs set. Plus troubling Deathly Hallows hints.

Jon Favreau posted a Cowboys And Aliens glimpse. Neil Patrick Harris was spotted in Smurfland! Will Harry Potter’s two-part finale make major changes to the book? Plus Doctor Who, Lost, Skyline, Twilight, Transformers, Fringe, No Ordinary Family and True Blood. Cowboys And Aliens: Director Jon Favreau tweeted your first image from this science fiction Western,…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Smoke Monster doesn’t want lemonade. The Smoke Monster wants blood!

A whole bunch of characters achieved their capital-D Destiny on Lost last night – which mostly seemed to involve reverting to being the people they’d started out as. You can run from the Smoke Monster, but not yourself. Spoilers below! It’s really hard to judge “What They Died For” on its own, since it’s so…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

The Network Killer

Is it a surprise that horror stories like this keep someone who wishes she could code everything in life awake in the wee hours of the night? [XKCD] https://gizmodo.com/if-only-everything-in-life-could-be-coded-5541115

Books & Comics Rosa Golijan

Watch the trailer for ABC’s live-action version of The Incredibles

Michael Chiklis may not have been a perfect cop in The Shield, but he looks like he might be a great superhero in No Ordinary Family, coming to ABC this fall. It’s more light-hearted than Heroes, judging from the trailer.

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Get addicted to zombie action web series “Universal Dead”

The first episode of web series Universal Dead, featuring DB Sweeney, Doug Jones, and Gary Graham, has been posted, and it’s pretty damn cool. Watching will make you hunger for more. Here’s the thumbnail sketch: Planet Earth is ravaged by a strange disease that turns people into mindless murderers. As civilization struggles to survive, a…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Photos from an alternate dimension: pedestrian-friendly Los Angeles

At the blog Narrow Streets: Los Angeles, self-proclaimed “urban planning geek” David Yoon takes the yawning boulevards of La-La Land and shrinks them to a scale on par with European cities…and manages to create an amazing change in perspective. In his Narrow Streets: Los Angeles manifesto, Yoon likens his photographic manipulations to concept art –…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

A zombie book from the author of Let The Right One In

If you loved Let The Right One In’s melancholic, funny and twisted view of vampires, then you should keep your eye open for Handling The Undead, a zombie novel by the same author, John Ajvide Lindqvist, coming in September. Handling The Undead sounds like it’s not your traditional zombie story, any more than Let The…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

“The Human Centipede” is the best cult film of 2010

The premise is simple enough. A mad doctor has kidnapped three people for his evil plans to create one person out of three, by surgically attaching them ass-to-mouth. With cult movies, execution is everything. And The Human Centipede delivers. One of the many gems in this bizarro flick directed by Tom Six is its psychotic…

Movies Annalee Newitz

Today we’ll find out if aliens hijacked Voyager 2

The art that inspired Godzilla and other giant monsters

Join your pals from io9 and Laughing Squid at our NYC meetup 5/25

“All The President’s Vampires” novel Blood Oath getting a big-screen adaptation

What if Doctor Who were a Disney movie?

Old-school space playgrounds were awesome and/or death traps

An International Space Station-sized blot on the Sun

V gets shoved to ABC’s midseason line-up

Behold…the cheesetastic charms of Manborg!

Jemaine Clement will challenge Vincent D’Onofrio for best Men In Black villain

Thor’s Hammer was discovered in 1964…in Quebec

Fighting fears with augmented-reality roaches

First look at Cowboys And Aliens, and NPH on The Smurfs set. Plus troubling Deathly Hallows hints.

The Smoke Monster doesn’t want lemonade. The Smoke Monster wants blood!

The Network Killer

Watch the trailer for ABC’s live-action version of The Incredibles

Get addicted to zombie action web series “Universal Dead”

Photos from an alternate dimension: pedestrian-friendly Los Angeles

A zombie book from the author of Let The Right One In

“The Human Centipede” is the best cult film of 2010

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