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Russian Space Rocket Looks Totally Old-School

The Soyuz-FG launcher sticks to a 1950s snub-nosed aesthetic, even though it was built in 2001. The Soyuz is preparing to launch Dec. 14 from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome. Image by STR/AFP/Getty Images.

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A List of All the Ways We Imagine Los Angeles Being Destroyed

Sure it’s cool to destroy New York, but it’s even cooler to destroy Los Angeles. That’s why Omega Man, the 1970s version of I Am Legend, took place in Los Angeles. Viral decimation is only one of the many ways LA has been crushed, according to a 1998 book by Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear,…

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The Speckled SciFi Career of Charlton Heston

Long before Charlton Heston was strutting his stuff as the gun-toting president of the National Rifle Association, he was lending his iron-jawed profile to films The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. However, he is cemented in the minds of millions of movie fans as the face of the human race in 1968’s The Planet of the…

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Sci-Fi Rock Stars

Prog rockers Coheed and Cambria have created a whole science fiction mythology to go with their concept albums. The band’s name refers to the heroes of its science fiction story, sketched out in a series of graphic novels called Armory Wars and in albums with titles like Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume 2:…

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Martian Spiders Launch Dark Jets

New images give clues to the reasons for the “spiders” and “dark fans” that appear on Mars’ south pole every spring. Sunlight filters through the layer of dry ice covering the pole and turns the bottom layer to gas. The gas forms spider-shaped channels trying to escape the ice, and then erupts in fan-shaped jets…

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A Nanotech Twist on Silkworms

Microchip construction has gone biological. UC Riverside announced last week that some of its researchers had discovered that the metal-corroding bacteria Shewanella extrude semi-conducting nanotubes that can be used for microchips or other tiny electronics devices. Here you can see a nest of Shewanella and tubes. (Nanotubes are semi-conductive, microscopic metal tubes, often considered the…

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A Mutant, A Failed Utopian Experiment, and French People

The trailer for the French scifi film Eden Log shows you something that looks like H.R. Giger creation crossed with the Crystalline Entity from Star Trek: The Next Generation. We aren’t sure what that thing is supposed to be, but we hope this dark holiday release doesn’t devolve into a creature chase. Director Franck Vestiel…

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Don’t Give Your Kids A Robot Friend

Another casting rumor for S. Shankar’s long–awaited Robot. This time, it’s Aamir Khan, a serious actor and star of Rajan Hindustani and The Rising. Also, we finally have a plot description: a scientist creates a robot companion for his disabled child, but the robot goes on a killing jag. [Bollycircle] http://io9.com/scifi/robots/bollywood-robot-film-seeks-muse-325025.php http://io9.com/scifi/buzz/bollywood-vigilante-fights-evil-mecha-330405.php

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“I Am Legend” is Beautiful Instead of Scary

The best parts of I Am Legend, the virus apocalypse flick hitting theaters tomorrow, may be largely unintentional. As the movie opens, we’re treated to a rich soundscape of New York City taken over by non-human creatures. Wind keens between the buildings, birds sing, deer clatter down roads in the East Village, and grass grows…

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Which Sci-Fi Show Would You Kill For On DVD?

Rabid Jake 2.0 fans are sending this postcard to Paramount demanding a DVD boxset of the canceled show. In an era when even Jason of Star Command has DVDs, it seems hard to believe you can’t buy your favorite obscure show yet. What sci-fi show are you dying to see on DVD? Gawker Media polls…

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Heroes Series Cashes In . . . With Books

With the writer’s strike threatening to spread into the holidays and beyond, NBC is rushing a novelization of Heroes to print the day after Christmas. This Heroes novel is the first book to try and capitalize on the writer’s strike. After all, with the number of game and reality shows on television increasing daily, people…

Television Kevin Kelly

Microwaving Old Tires to Brew Fuel

Now you can use a microwave to transform old tires into energy. Here you see Jay Gill, an employee of New Jersey company Global Resource Corporation, doing just that using an awesomely homebrew-looking setup. The process is completely revolutionary, and the company has just announced it’s about to get a ton of money to expand.…

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Japanese Bars Cater to Fans of Sentient Body Armor

In Tokyo’s district for otaku, or mega-fans, two bars will soon be recreating the Gundam anime universe. Featured in countless animated series, Gundam is a world where people wear sentient body armor, or “mobile suits,” for fighting. Also, sometimes, for loving. Patrons of the Gundam bars will be served by waitresses in full body armor.…

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Alien Tech Gets You A Date With A Supermodel

A shy fanboy buys a weird alien figurine that starts making all his wishes come true, including a supermodel date, in The iDol. But everything comes at a price, and the doll’s original owner is coming from outer space to look for it. The iDol looks like another zany Japanese comedy like Squid Wrestler, but…

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First Look At Amanda Peet In X-Files 2

X-Files 2 takes place partly at a hospital, and involves organ transplants, judging from new set pics. [XFilesNews] The new Knight Rider’s car will have a supercomputer that “can hack into any system.” Ohhhkay. [SliceofSciFi] Click through to spoil yourself on AVP, Sarah Connor and more. You’ll see an eco-friendly Predator — who is willing…

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Mutants Meet Magnets In Taiwanese SciFi

According to Shen xuan zhe, a new science fiction film from Taiwan, the time, place, and date of your birth in relation to the Earth’s magnetic field can give you special powers. You might become an ultra-special "chosen" member of the Brotherhood of Legio, a sort of dark Taiwanese version of the Justice League. When…

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“The Man From Earth” Rules

Indie movie The Man From Earth has become a direct-to-DVD hit, boosting its IMDB movie-meter ranking from 11,235 to #6. The Man From Earth is now at #14 on the list of the top science fiction movies of all time, and it’s all thanks to people pirating the movie and sharing it online, says the…

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A Little Polyethylene Aluminum Bling for Your Neck

This is a prototype “air necklace” from Kyouei Design, a Japanese design firm that also created balloon lights and a soup dish that looks like a mountain range from the side. Made of silvery polyethylene aluminum, a common material in lightweight industrial pipes, the necklace comes deflated. Just blow it up, slip it on, and…

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Joss Whedon and Ron Moore Pencilbath

Here’s a video showing Buffy / Firefly creator Joss Whedon and Battlestar Galactica remaker Ronald D. Moore dumping half a million pencils into a box that’s being sent to Hollywood fatcats to help illustrate the writer’s strike. Here’s an idea: let’s cut down the entire forest and ship reams of blank white paper to ’em!…

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Watch the New Alien Totally Cremate a Whole Ship Full of Predators

A Predalien, the new Predator/Alien hybrid, takes out a whole ship full of Predators in the opening minutes of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Also, the Strause brothers, the directors, revealed they want to make a third AVP movie, which would be a prequel to the first Alien movie. Sadly, after our action-packed opening, AVP-R shifts…

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Russian Space Rocket Looks Totally Old-School

A List of All the Ways We Imagine Los Angeles Being Destroyed

The Speckled SciFi Career of Charlton Heston

Sci-Fi Rock Stars

Martian Spiders Launch Dark Jets

A Nanotech Twist on Silkworms

A Mutant, A Failed Utopian Experiment, and French People

Don’t Give Your Kids A Robot Friend

“I Am Legend” is Beautiful Instead of Scary

Which Sci-Fi Show Would You Kill For On DVD?

Heroes Series Cashes In . . . With Books

Microwaving Old Tires to Brew Fuel

Japanese Bars Cater to Fans of Sentient Body Armor

Alien Tech Gets You A Date With A Supermodel

First Look At Amanda Peet In X-Files 2

Mutants Meet Magnets In Taiwanese SciFi

“The Man From Earth” Rules

A Little Polyethylene Aluminum Bling for Your Neck

Joss Whedon and Ron Moore Pencilbath

Watch the New Alien Totally Cremate a Whole Ship Full of Predators

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