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NASA says they're "Pratt Whitney Rocketdyne engines" from space shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis... but we think they look an awful lot like incognito Dalek shipping containers. More »
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Last Friday, after 27 years of service, NASA powered down space shuttle Discovery for the very last time. This week, space shuttle Atlantis — which five months ago today touched down at Kennedy Space Center, marking the end of the US Space Shuttle Program — will share the same fate. More »
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This photo was taken back in 2001, during a launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. On the left is the space shuttle's launch plume. On the right is the plume's shadow. So why is it pointing straight at the Moon? More »
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Terry O'Quinn just can't stop investigating the fate of mysterious islands. He's addicted. This time around, O'Quinn's digging into the question of what happened to Atlantis, in a new episode of the Discovery Channel's Curiosity airing Sunday. And we've got two exclusive clips! More »
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Self-respecting geeks living in NYC have got virtually no excuse not to meet up with the crew of NASA's Atlantis this week — the last team to fly aboard a space shuttle. More »
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A recent National Geographic special on finding the lost city of Atlantis left people wondering whether this mythical place actually did exist. Could there really have been a city built on concentric rings of land and water? More »
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As the holiday season kicks into high gear, a few cities are scrambling for one of the biggest gifts imaginable: a space shuttle. Now that the shuttles are retiring, it's time to decide their final homes. More »
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The mysterious, almost perfectly spherical stone balls dotting the Costa Rican landscape may soon be up for UNESCO World Heritage status. But who built them circa 600 AD? Are they a map to Atlantis, or something even weirder? More »
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Tim Warnock has provided concept artwork and designs for Watchmen and Harry Potter. Just for fun, he's created a series of stunning matte paintings that capture Bioshock's underwater city of Rapture in its glory days, all shimmering art deco. More »
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Space Shuttle Atlantis took to the skies this week, carrying thousands of microscopic worms to be used in muscle-degeneration research. We already know these worms can handle spaceflight, because in 2003, another group of them survived a fall from orbit. More »
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Television comes back after its long holiday nap, with the final Stargate Atlantis. We've got clips from the series finale to say goodbye Sheppard, Ronon, and sweet McKay... we'll miss you most of all. More »
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Here's an exclusive look inside the second to last episode of Stargate Atlantis, "Vegas." In which, we assume, Sheppard gets knee capped by Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri and Phil Leotardo. Spoilers below! More »
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Apparently, people don't want to spend their money on a superhero who spends all of his time looking wet and smelling of fish. That's one possible conclusion to be drawn from the fact that DC Comics can never manage to make Aquaman a sales success. This problem has spread to TV as well, if you consider the character's jokey existence in HBO's Entourage and his non-existent series on the CW. So what is it about the character that stops him hitting the big time? And can he ever break through the water ceiling? More »
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This week marks the debut of Seth Green's latest Robot Chicken Star Wars special, and we've got the first laugh-out-loud clip from it. Also, there's a sweeps-month shock on Terminator, Woolsey's up for his performance evaluation and it's up to the Stargate Atlantis crew to save his job, True Blood's Lafayette gets political and Fringe is back. More »
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Last Friday, Milton Friedman's grandson Patri Friedman and his fledgling Seasteading Institute had their first ever conference. Equipped with half a million dollars from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, the Institute wants to eventually build a fixed, independent structure off the coast of San Francisco called Ephemerisle that will function as an anarcho-capitalist utopia. The idea of a ocean-based civilization isn't a new one, and the Institute has heaps of failure to learn from. Click for the best and worst waterworlds. More »
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Who's Dr. Keller (Jewel Staite) all twitterpated about? We've got new pictures from the set of producer/writer Martin Gero's "Brain Strom" episode for Stargate Atlantis, and they reveal Keller's new lucky man and a couple of amazing science-centric cameos including Bill Nye The Science Guy. Click through to see Keller's new object of affection — beware spoilers. More »
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Despite a couple of natural disasters involving hurricanes, river deltas and the destruction of cities, a lot of folks on Earth have a hard time believing that rising sea levels are a problem. Those people should talk to Anote Tong, the president of the island nation of Kiribati. He's convinced his country is going to be a modern day Atlantis by the end of the century, and last week he took the opportunity to ask the international community for help finding new places to live for himself and his 97,000 compatriots as their 33 atolls vanish into the sea. More »
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We finally got the Space Shuttle Atlantis off the ground, after two months of delays and accidents, and it looks totally rich and creamy, streaming into the sky on the back of its big booster rocket. How can we be planning to retire the space shuttle program when it's such an awesome source of porn? Not to mention the advancement of science: the shuttle's mission is to deliver that tiny Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station. Click through for a gallery. More »
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Last nights' space shuttle Atlantis liftoff was delayed until Saturday due to engineering problems, but the shuttle herself looked all tarted up and ready to dance. This was Atlantis as she was on the launch pad last night, ready to carry a new laboratory to the International Space Station. Ah, the glamour. Image by Nicholas Kamm/Getty. More »
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