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Buzz Aldrin Wants Entrepreneurs to Claim the Moon

Over at BoingBoingTV, Xeni Jardin has a great interview with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who is never shy about sharing is opinions about what’s wrong with the U.S. space program. Here he talks about how entrepreneurs should take over the moon, and why space travel is synonymous with freedom. Video below. Click to view I wish…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Vin Diesel Beats Up Everyone In Science Fiction

If there was ever any doubt as to who would win in a duel between all three Hulks and Vin Diesel , I think this cartoon pretty much clears them up. Vinny is a scifi darling, and this new Babylon AD cartoon, “I’m Vin Diesel, Don’t F&%# With Me” pits his futuristic reluctant hero Toorop…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Raimi And Cruise Team To Make Sleeper Hit?

Will Tom Cruise discover that the only way he can be truly hurt is emotionally? Possibly, if rumors that he’ll be starring in Sam Raimi’s adaptation of the comic Sleeper are to be believed. More about the story of alien artifacts, moral conundrums and Raimi and Cruise’s involvement in both, under the jump.Sleeper, created by…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Why Venus is the Second-Most Inhabitable Planet in Our Solar System

Last week, I told you about Tobias Buckell’s awesome new space zombies vs. alien-enhanced ninja novel, Sly Mongoose. The book hits stores this week, and SF author John Scalzi invited Buckell to write something about what inspired the novel. Buckell says that he owes it all to a NASA scientist named Geoff Landis, who gave…

Books & Comics Annalee Newitz

Get Inside Quarantine’s Sick Building Syndrome

The new website for Quarantine is up and running. Once inside, you can explore the Quarantined apartment complex for yourself in a computer game, complete with angry zombies that will take run at you if you’re not prepared with your gun. [Contain The Truth]

io9 Meredith Woerner

Flight Attendants and Jedi Apprentices Blow Your Mind In This Week’s Comics

It’s a relatively light week at comic stores this week, but that’s to everyone’s benefit, as what is coming out may just blow your mind so much that you wouldn’t be able to read anything else anyway. New (non-Clone Wars) Star Wars, new futuristic superheroes, the return of Spider-Man’s favorite alien and something to deal…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Lawsuit Won’t Stop The Watchmen

Click to viewIt’s looking bad for the Watchmen movie, now that a judge is allowing a lawsuit by Fox over the film rights to the famous graphic novel to go forward. It’s even worse when you realize that the same judge ruled against Warner Bros. in a case involving the rights to a Dukes Of…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Join Bigfoot, Nessie and Chupacabra In The Fight Against Extinction

The Cryptozoo Crew (home to urban legend and animal myths) is being adapted from a comic book to the big screen. Protagonists Tork and Tara Darwyn travel the Earth, searching for the worlds strangest creatures. The script was written by Joe Gazzam (writer for the new 21 Jump Street movie). Click through for more pictures…

Movies Meredith Woerner

The Russian Cold War Rocket That Still Does Heavy Lifting

Click to viewThis Russian Proton rocket, looking like something out of a 60s sci-fi novel, launched yesterday from Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying one of the largest satellites ever built. Arguably the best heavy boost rocket in the world, the Proton is a Cold War relic that’s still a workhorse (despite some recent failures) more than forty…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Disney Princesses The Way Frank Miller Likes Em

Forget Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, I want to go for a spin in the Sin City Disney world. Artist Curt Rapala substituted Frank Miller’s Sin City vixens with our favorite Disney princesses. You’ve got Belle and Becky, Ariel as Nancy, Snow White as leader of the Old Town hookers Gail. Click through to see who…

io9 Meredith Woerner

A Plague of Jellyfish Headed for the U.K.

Last year, roaming mega-packs of jellyfish wiped out an entire Irish salmon farm stocked with 100,000 fish and forced the closures of several beaches in the U.K. In some areas, jellyfish have become so populous that they’ve taken over: 90 percent of the Black Sea’s fauna are jellyfish (pictured). Of course climate change and overfishing…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Remembering The Savior Of The Universe

It may have been released 28 years (and at least one television revival) ago, but for everyone of a certain age, 1980s’ Flash Gordon remains the definitive tale of an All-American sports hero being kidnapped into space, kicking Mongo ass and – most importantly – being turned on by an alien princess while telepathically communicating…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Secrets Of Super Max’s Prison And Terminator 4’s Killing Machines

The playing field between humans and machines has never been slantier, judging from new spoilers about the new and deadly Terminators in Terminator 4 and the automated super-prison that Green Arrow gets locked inside in Super Max. We also learn a little bit more about the backstories of killer super-car movie Death Race and killer…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

It’s Like Darkness At Noon… With Fascist Lesbians

Donald G. Jackson is best known for the awesome Hell Comes To Frogtown, but he made tons and tons of bizarre post-apocalyptic/dystopian movies. Many of them contain weird lesbians, like the sadistic prison warden played by Julie Strain, who fails to break her prisoner and pays the price in this clip from Big Sister 2000.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Hot Running Steel

When you see a picture of molten steel pouring out of a faucet into the sink, you might guess it’s a piece of art rather than an actual industrial machine. But this image is quite real, and I wouldn’t recommend rinsing your hands in that sink. It’s a photo from a French factory that manufactures…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Disaster Movie Sacrifices Bad Comedy For Worse Cleavage

The parodies of recent science fiction classics appear to be tremendously watered down in Disaster Movie. At least, a new clip for the parody flick shows Kim Kardashian and Carmen Electra thrashing about in skin-tight outfits, with only a weak excuse for a Wanted spoof thrown in. They’re just in it for the lycra. Click…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Psychic Movie Pushes Into Comic Books

Upcoming Dakota Fanning psychic warfare movie Push doesn’t have to wait until next year to get the nosebleed action started. DC Comics’ November solicitations, released today, reveal that they’re publishing a six-part prologue to the movie co-written by Entertainment Weekly’s Marc Bernardin. We’ve got the details and cover to the first issue (by 2000AD and…

io9 Graeme McMillan

Alien Marketing Invades Twitter

Our favorite creepy use of social networking these days has to be EmbraceChange’s Twitter feed. The anonymous supporter of Marvel Comics’ Skrull Secret Invasion has been offering calm, 140-character messages urging everyone to sit back, relax and accept our new alien rulers, like “Your days of poverty, hardship, disease and greed are over” and “We…

io9 Graeme McMillan

UPDATE: X-Files 3 Direct To DVD… Because No One Believed

Even a box-office flub isn’t enough to stop Mulder and Scully’s boring back and forth romantic drama. So what if Space Chimps did way better than the second X-Files movie? Chris Carter and co. are still going to try again, but this time direct-to-DVD. Click through for more details. UPDATE: X-Files producer Spotnitz addresses the…

io9 Meredith Woerner

As If John Connor Isn’t Sad Enough, McG Makes T4 Cast Read The Road

Click to viewMcG took a turn for the super serious and handed out copies of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road to the cast and crew of Terminator Salvation. Telling MTV “I think the first two pictures took those ideas [of inescapable destiny and dread] so seriously… We wanted to make sure we did that [as well].”…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Buzz Aldrin Wants Entrepreneurs to Claim the Moon

Vin Diesel Beats Up Everyone In Science Fiction

Raimi And Cruise Team To Make Sleeper Hit?

Why Venus is the Second-Most Inhabitable Planet in Our Solar System

Get Inside Quarantine’s Sick Building Syndrome

Flight Attendants and Jedi Apprentices Blow Your Mind In This Week’s Comics

Lawsuit Won’t Stop The Watchmen

Join Bigfoot, Nessie and Chupacabra In The Fight Against Extinction

The Russian Cold War Rocket That Still Does Heavy Lifting

Disney Princesses The Way Frank Miller Likes Em

A Plague of Jellyfish Headed for the U.K.

Remembering The Savior Of The Universe

Secrets Of Super Max’s Prison And Terminator 4’s Killing Machines

It’s Like Darkness At Noon… With Fascist Lesbians

Hot Running Steel

Disaster Movie Sacrifices Bad Comedy For Worse Cleavage

Psychic Movie Pushes Into Comic Books

Alien Marketing Invades Twitter

UPDATE: X-Files 3 Direct To DVD… Because No One Believed

As If John Connor Isn’t Sad Enough, McG Makes T4 Cast Read The Road

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

Roborock F25 GT Cordless Vacuum and Mop Hits Its Lowest Price in Spring Sale, 20,000Pa Cleaning Power Without the Premium Price Tag

New Details Add a Bizarre Twist to NASA’s First ISS Medical Evacuation

ASUS TUF 27” HDR Gaming Monitor Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing for a Limited Run in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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