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Lego’s Doctor Who Tardis Set Will Be Landing Soon

Lego posted an update to Facebook this morning with an exciting image: A Lego Tardis, with a message: Landing soon… Earlier this year, Lego announced that the Tardis would be part of the next wave of Lego Ideas, along with a Wall*E set. It’s looking like this set will be coming in the very near…

Jam Out In Orbit To Thomas Oliver’s If I Move To Mars

‘If I Move To Mars’ is the latest song from New Zealand artist Thomas Oliver, and it comes with a great video of an astronaut jamming out as he spins away in orbit. The world needs more Apollo-styled guitars. The video is a bit fun to watch, and it lands at the best week possible:…

All Hail Sputnik, the First Robotic Overlord to Orbit our Planet

October 4, 1957: Sputnik beeps out a cheerful declaration of survival in the harshest of environments as the first artificial satellite to successfully orbit the Earth. A 1957 newsreel cartoon introduced Americans to the first artificial satellite. Watch the entire reel here. On October 5, 1957 at 1:28am local time, an R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile…

Maybe Clara Did TOO Good a Job of Becoming Like the Doctor on Doctor Who

Season eight of Doctor Who had a pretty strong character arc for Clara, the ageless Doctor’s traveling companion. She started out distressed by the Doctor’s callousness, but then she learned to be more like him. And now it seems maybe she learned too well. Spoilers ahead… Tonight’s episode, “Under the Lake,” is the first half…

Open Channel: What’s Your Favorite Movie About Mars?

The Martian is doing pretty well at the box office this weekend: it’s poised to take the #1 spot and overtake Gravity’s record from a couple of years ago. So, with that in mind, what’s your favorite film that takes place on the Red Planet? Mine? (Aside from The Martian) Mission to Mars. It’s a…

It’s Black And White In The Animated Video For PilotPriest’s The Last Goodbye

In PilotPriest’s video for their song The Last Goodbye, an astronaut goes off on a desperate chase after her companion jets off into space. It’s a really simple story of loss, and what strikes me the most with this video is the use of black and white artwork in space – it’s stark and minimal,…

An Ancient Volcanic Collapse Triggered an 800 Foot Tsunami Wave

Scientists have just uncovered one of the largest tsunami events in the geologic record, and naturally, it started with an epic splash. 73,000 years ago, the eastern flank of Cape Verde’s Fogo volcano collapsed into the sea, kicking up an 800-foot wave. Think about that for a sec. That’s two thirds the height of the…

The Best Little Porno Movie on the Internet [Very NSFW]

The other night, my friend Fivestar said, “Hey, I’m going to be directing a Star Trek gang bang movie, you want to visit the set?” Just in case you are wondering, the answer to that question should always be yes. Warning: This article is very NSFW. Seriously. There are genitals. You have been warned. Fivestar…

Guillermo Del Toro Wants To Put Maisie Williams In A Jaeger

A sequel to Pacific Rim might be a long ways off, but it’s still on director Guillermo del Toro’s mind. And, he has a fantastic idea for who he wants behind the controls of a new Jaeger. Sounding off on Twitter earlier today, he noted that he had lunch with none other than Maisie Williams…

Our Favorite Images From NASA’s Incredible New Apollo Gallery

Earlier this week, NASA uploaded an incredible treasure trove of images to a new gallery on Flickr: unprocessed photographs from all of the manned Apollo missions. They represent an incredible look into what the astronauts saw on their missions to the moon. NASA’s astronauts are known for taking some of the world’s best pictures, but…

Where Should NASA Send a Space Probe Next?

Going to Pluto was incredible, but as we continue to soak in the glorious images, NASA’s already trying to figure out which celestial target to hit next. The space agency revealed five finalist concepts this week, including missions that would take us to Jupiter’s asteroids and the surface of Venus. I’ve been pondering NASA’s choices…

Edward Snowden may have garnered himself 1.3 million followers during his first week on Twitter, but even instant celebrities make rookie mistakes. Snowden’s? Forgetting to turn off email notifications. 47 GB of follow, favorite, retweet and DM emails later, we’re pretty sure he learned his lesson. [Engadget]

An Online Dictionary Plans to Catalog a Million Emerging English Words

With viral memes and hashtags sweeping the internet on the daily, language is evolving faster than conventional dictionaries can keep up. You may have been “procrastatweeting” about the “popepocalypse” last week, but the stalwart publishers of the Oxford English won’t give your neologisms official recognition for years to come, if ever. Heck, they didn’t even…

Exploration Is The Perfect Trailer To Show Off NASA’s Legacy

NASA is holding a short film contest called CineSpace, and one entry, Exploration, by Ryan J. Thompson caught our eye. It’s the perfect movie-style trailer to show off NASA’s scientific legacy. With a voice over from President John F. Kennedy, Thompson has picked out a dramatic set of archival footage shot from space and a…

Locke & Key Is Just As Haunting As An Audio Drama As It Is A Graphic Novel

Audible is taking one of the best comics in recent years has turned it into a dramatic audio presentation: Locke and Key. The production is a stunning adaptation and it proves that Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s horrifying graphic novel series is just as terrifying off the pages. Best of all? It’ll be a free…

Furious 7 Director James Wan Will Bring MacGyver Back To Television

Another old television show is being dusted off and given a new life: CBS announced that they’re rebooting MacGyver with Furious 7 director James Wan slated to direct the pilot. Color us interested. According to CBS (via EW), the new MacGyver will be a revised concept, rather than any sort of continuation of the existing…

iPhone 6s Review: A 3D Touch Playground

Let’s be clear on at least one thing: the iPhone 6s is a good phone. A great phone even, and no shit, it’s the best iPhone yet. But if you’re upgrading from—or have ever spent 30 seconds with—an iPhone 6, it’s business as usual…until you get to 3D Touch. The newfangled touch-sensitive display is obviously…

Steve Wozniak: “Steve Jobs and I Were Once Robbed at Gunpoint Outside a Pizza Parlor”

Were Apple’s co-founders robbed at gunpoint outside a pizza parlor? That, at least, is what Steve Wozniak told Jimmy Fallon and Seth Rogen during a game of “True Confessions” on Friday’s episode of The Tonight Show. Fallon, an expert interrogator, managed to extract a lot of details about the incident during the one-minute question and…

This Life-Sized Hulkbuster Cosplay Will Blow Your Mind

Prop builders have created some awesome costumes in the recent past, but this might be one of the coolest: a life-sized Hulkbuster. Extreme Costumes assembled the towering 9-foot tall costume, and put more than 1600 hours of work went into the Iron Man variant. You can scroll through their facebook feed for a build process:…

Elon Musk Clarifies His Plan to “Nuke Mars”

Remember a few weeks back, when Elon Musk explained how we ought to nuke Mars to warm it up? Well, the billionaire was really just speaking off the cuff, and so during a SolarCity launch event in Times Square yesterday, he decided he ought to clarify. The founder of SpaceX doesn’t want to nuke the…