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Is this the most confusing scifi TV ad ever filmed?

Say what you will about Saul Bass’ 1974 sentient ant film Phase IV, its TV ads did not give anything away. Rather, the Phase IV commercials regaled viewers with cryptic narration and drunkenly edited images of ants and explosions. https://gizmodo.com/phase-iv-a-film-about-super-smart-communist-ants-and-m-5771223 Hey Hollywood, this how you sell a movie: by making sure the audience has absolutely…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar May 29 '11

Poof! Android Market Emulators Go MIA

Popular Android emulator developer “yongzh” has had all of his apps yanked from Android Market without warning, he told users today, signaling that Google’s recent bans (started last month at the behest of Sega) are all but over. The culled few include user favorites like Nesoid, Snesoid, Gensoid, Ataroid and Gameboid, just to name a…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 29 '11

Check out Sean Young’s candid Polaroids from the set of Blade Runner

While filming Blade Runner, actress Sean Young (a.k.a. Rachael the replicant) took these charming Polaroid shots of the cast and crew goofing around. They’re like Hipstamatic shots of C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. You can see many more at Young’s website. Also, here’s her Super 8 footage of the filming of…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar May 29 '11

Why doesn’t our solar system have any gas giants close to the sun?

As we learn more about far distant solar systems, it becomes clear just how weird the universe really is. And, more disconcertingly, how unusual our own solar system is. And that starts with our curious lack of so-called “hot Neptunes.” Hot Neptunes- and their even bigger counterparts, known as hot Jupiters – are gas giant…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 29 '11

Hackers Breach Lockheed Martin, May Have Accessed Secret Weapons Systems DUPE

Seems hackers have broken into Lockheed Martin and other weapons manufacturers and may now know about existing and future U.S. weapon systems. Uh, quick, hide the JDAMs? At the moment, it’s unclear what information, if any, was exposed during the breach. Allegedly, the hackers were able to access Lockheed’s secure systems as a result of…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 29 '11

The mystery behind history’s most important isotope is solved at last

Most radioactive isotopes of the lighter elements decay in minutes or less. But one particular isotope of carbon takes 6000 years to decay, and that fact has revolutionized archaeology. But why it does that has long been a complete mystery. This isn’t really a small problem – the isotpe in question, carbon-14, takes roughly three…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 29 '11

Vacation like a Bond villain in this invisible room near the Arctic Circle

If you’re a discerning evil zillionaire looking to get away from it all, the Mirrorcube hotel suite in the Swedish forest is a wise choice. Some well-placed mirrors + a seemingly floating cube = the final word in “No Solicitors.” The Mirrorcube is part of the Tree Hotel, a forested collection of fantastical elevated rooms…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 29 '11

Blue Angels Commanding Officer Steps Down for Flying Too Aggressively

Commander Dave Koss, commanding officer of the Navy’s venerable Blue Angels flight demonstration team, has voluntarily stepped down after taking his four-man team too close to the flight deck during a Barrel Roll Break maneuver. In the video below from the Lynchburg Regional Airshow, you can see how the maneuver is designed to unfold (first…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 29 '11

Lasers reveal exactly how guitars create music

When you play a stringed instrument, the strings vibrate against the soundboard, amplifying the sound created by the string. The vibrations involved are tiny, as little as a millionth of a meter, and that’s why researchers got out their lasers. By shooting laser beams at a soundboard during vibration, it’s possible to track all the…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 29 '11

Is this a Christian icon in space – or a fire in microgravity?

Fire takes a different form away from the force of gravity. Now a kaleidoscopic shot of heptane combustion from the International Space Station shows the unusual way fuels burn in weak gravity. As part of an experiment assessing combustion and fire suppressants in space, a 3-millimetre-wide drop of heptane fuel was ignited and filmed as…

io9 Caitlin Stier - New Scientist May 29 '11

What if Dino-Riders took place in medieval times?

It’s common knowledge that lasers and various high-tech accoutrements improve sauropods immensely, but Dinosaur Battle Town, this cute short animation by Eddie West, demonstrates that dinosaurs benefit from low-tech weaponry too. A Tyrannosaurus always needs a good rampart. [Eddie West via Metafilter]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar May 29 '11

Larry Ellison Is No Friend of the Majestic Redwood (Updated)

Lest we forget that the mega-rich simply do not think like we common folk, take a look at this lawsuit from Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Updated. Seems a trio of Redwood trees have grown a bit too high for Ellison’s liking, to a point in the sky where they’re seriously hampering the San Francisco Bay…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 29 '11

Mirrors can actually create light through the magic of quantum weirdness

If you take two flat mirrors and place them very close together, the virtual particles that pop into existence between the mirrors will actually force them together. But that’s nothing compared to when mirrors approach the speed of light. We’ve talked about virtual particles before, but for our purposes all we really need to know…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 29 '11

Sweet Christmas! Watch the Old Spice Guy play Luke Cage

We know that professional handsome man Isaiah Mustafa has talked to Marvel about the possibility of playing Luke Cage, and now check out this promo video of the actor as Power Man. Neat stuff, but there’s no disco tiara. https://gizmodo.com/awesome-casting-rumors-for-the-hunger-games-luke-cage-5795115 [Via CBM]

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar May 29 '11

True Blood BTS pics

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io9 Michael Ann Dobbs May 29 '11

Pow! Zam! Nyet! Superputin battles terrorists, protesters in online comic

Dictators are used to having their manliest poses carved into stone statues, or their most avuncular portrait printed on posters. But one Russian artist is bringing authoritarian iconography into the 21st century by drawing Russia’s boss-for-life Vladimir Putin as an ass-kicking character in an online comic book. Radio Free Europe reports that Russian writer, Sergei…

Books & Comics Adam Rawnsley - Danger Room May 29 '11

Students banned from high school graduation because of lightsaber battle

A choreographed lightsaber battle in their school cafeteria landed two Westfield, Massachusetts seniors a two-day suspension and a blacklisting at their high school graduation. I presume this school district’s had a spate of Sith gang violence, hence the zero-tolerance policy. I also love how the local news anchors chose to interview — of all the…

Television Cyriaque Lamar May 29 '11

Guide: Carefully Disassemble and Fix that Broken Canon 50mm Lens

So there’s Memorial Day weekend BBQ in your Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens and it’s ruined—shit happens! But instead of crying or buying another lens, you might take a stab at this disassembly guide for a (careful) fix. While the guide does come with its fair share of warnings and steps, it is completely…

Tech News Jack Loftus May 29 '11

Phantasm: a cult classic about the zombie Jawa industrial complex

Phantasm is a 1978 gothic horror fantasy written and directed by Don Coscarelli. It spawned three more sequels, all of them about evil dwarf minions and flying silver balls that love exsanguination. A. Michael Baldwin plays Mike, a recently orphaned 13 year old living with his adult brother and guardian, Jody (Bill Thornbury). When Jody’s…

io9 Jason Shankel May 29 '11

Gnomon Gallery Pictures

Iron Man – Life-size original Iron Man armor Iron Man 2 – War Machine Iron Man 2 – 1/6 size Iron Man model Iron Man 2 – 1/6 size War Machine Model Iron Man and Iron Man 2 – Various masks Avatar – Neytiri maquette Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – Voodoo Man…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins May 29 '11

Is this the most confusing scifi TV ad ever filmed?

Poof! Android Market Emulators Go MIA

Check out Sean Young’s candid Polaroids from the set of Blade Runner

Why doesn’t our solar system have any gas giants close to the sun?

Hackers Breach Lockheed Martin, May Have Accessed Secret Weapons Systems DUPE

The mystery behind history’s most important isotope is solved at last

Vacation like a Bond villain in this invisible room near the Arctic Circle

Blue Angels Commanding Officer Steps Down for Flying Too Aggressively

Lasers reveal exactly how guitars create music

Is this a Christian icon in space – or a fire in microgravity?

What if Dino-Riders took place in medieval times?

Larry Ellison Is No Friend of the Majestic Redwood (Updated)

Mirrors can actually create light through the magic of quantum weirdness

Sweet Christmas! Watch the Old Spice Guy play Luke Cage

True Blood BTS pics

Pow! Zam! Nyet! Superputin battles terrorists, protesters in online comic

Students banned from high school graduation because of lightsaber battle

Guide: Carefully Disassemble and Fix that Broken Canon 50mm Lens

Phantasm: a cult classic about the zombie Jawa industrial complex

Gnomon Gallery Pictures

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