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Zen Returns To Comics From Outer Space

Most people think of zen as a state of calm reflection. Only the chosen few understand that zen is, in fact, named after one of the most deadly interstellar ninjas in history, and star of comic page, computer game and chromium-covered trading card set from the 1990s. Now, twenty-one years after his creation, Zen the…

io9 Graeme McMillan

You’ll Never Guess Who Kid Magneto Hangs Out With

Today’s spoilers include an out-of-left-field revelation about the Magneto solo film. Yes, they’re actually working on that X-Men prequel, focusing on the magnetism-wielding mutant separatist leader. And there are a ton of new Lost revelations, plus two clips and a ton of photos. We’ve also gleaned also some surprising revelations (and a new clip) from…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Look What Happened The Last Time Galactica Found Earth

This scene from Galactica 1980 gave me some weird nightmares when I was a kid, and it still creeps me out now. Every time people discuss what will happen when the new Battlestar Galactica finally reaches Earth, this scene flashes before my eyes, and I shudder. So I thought I would share it with you.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Fetish Photography for Robots

Here’s the naughtiest view I’ve ever seen of the spot between two cylinder blocks in a 1940s airplane engine. Specifically, it’s a shot Elsie took of the Daimler Benz engine, which helped power the Messerschmitt 110 that Rudolf Hess flew to the U.K. in 1941. This precisely the kind of mechanical engineering porn that’s going…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Aliens Should Always Have Poetic Weaknesses

The greatest alien visitors in science fiction are totally invulnerable — except for one crucial weakness. And the best almost-unstoppable aliens have a weakness that is more poetic than Sylvia Plath and William Blake put together. Just look at our video compilation of aliens encountering their most poetic Achilles heels, and then check out our…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Goth Schoolgirl Falls For Killer Robot, In Killdroid

A high school girl and an android bent on murder come together in the epicmovie Killdroid: A Mechanical Love Affair. The goth girl finds an abandoned cyborg, part of a secret military operation, and brings it back to life. So of course, the two become lovers. More spoilery details and school girl pictures after the…

Movies Meredith Woerner

How to Build a Violent World in One Easy Step

That alcohol causes many deaths every year is a fact widely-accepted by scientists and the public. But now a new study conducted at the University of Toronto suggests that there is a direct relationship between amount of alcohol sold in a given region, and the amount of violence in that region — regardless of whether…

io9 Annalee Newitz

The Alternate-Universe Fashions Of Watchmen

On the heels of the video diary about building the sets of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen movie, it’s nice to see the same attention to detail is also being applied to the costumes, which span all the way from 1938 to 1985. Watchmen’s Costume Designer Michael Wilkinson discusses the insane amount of wardrobe his team had…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Kaguya Satellite Shoots Stunning Earthrise and Earthset Videos

This is an absolutely stunning (and completely real) video of Earthrise on the Moon. Every once and a while we need a jolt to remind us just how small and fragile our little blue marble Earth is. The Japanese Kaguya satellite has delivered with these jaw-dropping high-definition videos of what Earthrise and Earthset look like…

io9 Michael Reilly

Meet Your Mate With Operation Match, the First Computer Dating Service (1965)

In 1965, two enterprising students from Harvard, Jack Tarr and Vaughan Morrill, dreamed up the idea of a computerized dating service. Aided by David Crump and Douglas Ginsburg (in 1987 he withdrew his name from nomination to the Supreme Court after admitting to—gasp!—smoking pot in college), they put their idea in motion and created “Operation…

io9 Lynn Peril

Wall-E’s Android Friend Eve Is Based On An iPod

If Eve, the sleek lady-bot that becomes the apple of Wall-E’s eye, looks like a shiny consumer gadget you’d want to own, it’s not surprising. The Pixar/Disney animated space adventure Wall-E consulted with Jonathan Ive, one of the great Apple minds behind the iPod and iPhone, during the Eve’s design process. In an interview with…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Doomed Android Love Story On Infinite Repeat

Some science fiction book lovers have a dark mythology in their heads about literary poaching: literary authors lift speculative ideas and themes, handle them clumsily, and then insult the genre they’re pillaging. It’s a paranoid fantasy, and mostly not true. But I have a feeling Jeanette Winterson’s newest novel, The Stone Gods, will become something…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

NASA Engineers Prep for Phoenix Lander Rendezvous with Martian Arctic

The Phoenix Mars Lander will touch down on the Martian surface on May 25, where it will probe the soil for signs of past life and touch Martian water (in the form of subsurface ice) for the first time in human history. At a press conference I attended this morning, NASA’s engineers explained how they…

io9 Ed Grabianowski

Mutant Graffiti Terrorizes City Streets

A wall painting comes to life and creeps across the cities of Buenos Aires and Baden in Blu’s frighteningly amazing stop animation. Blu’s character morphs into different shapes, sizes and creatures. At one point you even follow its teeth as they leap out of his mouth and trot across the sidewalk. The black and white…

io9 Meredith Woerner

We Are Tracking Your Every Movement, But In a Fun Way

Want to find out when your gadgets will start following you around, and how easy it will be for you to do “reality mining” to find your friends by tracking their cell signals on Google maps? Then head out to Burlingame, CA today and tomorrow for O’Reilly’s annual Where 2.0 conference. I’ve been to this…

io9 Annalee Newitz

PlayStation 3 Video Download Service Coming Soon?

The rumor of Sony giving PS3 a video download service at E3 just got bumped up again by a small ad video floating around the net. The screencap shows 13 icons, but Cartoon Network, NBC, HBO, and some other one are used twice, leaving only nine TV stations for download. If Sony doesn’t unveil this…

Television Jason Chen

Survive — And Prosper — During An Alien Attack

Finally, a how-to video we can use. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how to make it through an insidious attack by aliens in one piece. The tin-foil UFOs and fake Monty Python accent are excellent teaching tools, but what really sells the lesson is the awesome facial expressions of our wide-eyed alien among us. Thanks…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Scifi Movie Locations in the Real World

With movies like Speed Racer and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow creating entire scifi landscapes from CGI, it’s easy to forget that some of the most futuristic settings for scifi movies are borrowed from the real world. Today Oobject has a terrific collection of photographs of the architectural marvels (and subtle background buildings)…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Alec Baldwin Has The Most Commercial Scifi Concept Ever

Alec Baldwin has an idea for the most perfect science fiction show ever: a cross between Falcon Crest, Star Trek and Girls Gone Wild. Alec’s show will be called Interplanetary Pie, or The Last Tango On Saturn, he tells the Hollywood Reporter. It’s a sex-driven, family drama. Oh Alec you know the way to our…

io9 Meredith Woerner

Outer Space Gets Its First Lawyer

As if rampant piles of orbiting junk weren’t enough, humans have now given outer space another of our finest creations: a lawyer. Obligatory lawyer joke aside, law student Michael Dodge graduated this weekend from the University of Mississippi with the first-ever (at least in the US) certificate in space law. And not a moment too…

io9 Michael Reilly

Zen Returns To Comics From Outer Space

You’ll Never Guess Who Kid Magneto Hangs Out With

Look What Happened The Last Time Galactica Found Earth

Fetish Photography for Robots

Aliens Should Always Have Poetic Weaknesses

Goth Schoolgirl Falls For Killer Robot, In Killdroid

How to Build a Violent World in One Easy Step

The Alternate-Universe Fashions Of Watchmen

Kaguya Satellite Shoots Stunning Earthrise and Earthset Videos

Meet Your Mate With Operation Match, the First Computer Dating Service (1965)

Wall-E’s Android Friend Eve Is Based On An iPod

Doomed Android Love Story On Infinite Repeat

NASA Engineers Prep for Phoenix Lander Rendezvous with Martian Arctic

Mutant Graffiti Terrorizes City Streets

We Are Tracking Your Every Movement, But In a Fun Way

PlayStation 3 Video Download Service Coming Soon?

Survive — And Prosper — During An Alien Attack

Scifi Movie Locations in the Real World

Alec Baldwin Has The Most Commercial Scifi Concept Ever

Outer Space Gets Its First Lawyer

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

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