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We Must Leave Earth
Hilary Clinton is currently the only presidential candidate with a space plan, which can't be pleasing to the scientists and scifi writers who warn that the human race must escape from Earth if it's to have any future. It's probably not surprising that 1970s astronomer icon Carl "billions of stars" Sagan was an offworld booster; nor would it boggle your mind to know that SF visionary Octavia Butler's post-apocalypse duet Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents is about why colonizing space is one of the most urgent political tasks of our time. But space travel as a political issue goes back further than that — way further. More »
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Wikipedia is No Place for Alien Civilizations
George Dvorsky reports over at Sentient Developments that the Wikipedia community has deleted a perfectly reasonable entry on astrosociobiology, "the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies." People like Carl Sagan and Freeman Dyson are counted among the ranks of astrosociobiologists, as are countless scifi creators. Luckily, Dvorksy has preserved the excised the entry in its entirety on his blog. Find out what Wikipedia doesn't want you to know about cultures that might develop beyond our solar system's heliopause. More »
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Must See: Contact
Must-see movies are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. Written by Jason Shankel.Title: Contact
Date: 1997
Vitals: Jodie Foster, surrounded by the likes of Matthew MacConaughey, Tom Skerrit, John Hurt and James Woods, searches for less creepy life elsewhere in the galaxy. More »
