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mad engineering
Those strange lights in the sky seem to move with unnatural precision, making turns and accelerations no human-made aircraft could possibly match. What ultra-advanced anti-gravity system allows UFOs to fly in such a bizarre way? Apparently it's ionized air. An engineering professor at the University of Florida has it all figured out, and he's going to build his own flying saucer.
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Flying Saucer Power Source Discovered: Ionized Air
Those strange lights in the sky seem to move with unnatural precision, making turns and accelerations no human-made aircraft could possibly match. What ultra-advanced anti-gravity system allows UFOs to fly in such a bizarre way? Apparently it's ionized air. An engineering professor at the University of Florida has it all figured out, and he's going to build his own flying saucer.
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fake spies
The Fake Intelligence Organizations and Spy Networks of Science Fiction
Sometimes science fiction series dissolve into acronym soup. In Marvel comics, you've got SHIELD (introduced in the Iron Man movie too), HYDRA, and AIM (not the instant messenger client, which is probably ten times as evil as the mad scientist group). And then there are all the strange organizations which secretly run the world, like the Dharma Initiative in Lost, or the The Syndicate from the X-Files. How the hell are you supposed to keep it all straight, especially when most nations already have real-life spy groups with names almost as acronym-tastic as science fiction? We've put together a list of the greatest hits of (mostly) Earth-bound conspiracy spy groups from science fiction. So yeah, that means no frakkin Tal Shiar, OK? More »
summer movies
When Did Summer Become Science Fiction Overkill Season?
This summer will be the biggest "blockbuster" movie season ever, with no fewer than 23 would-be smash hits coming out between early May and mid-August. It didn't used to be this way. Back in the mists of time — like, say, in the late 1990s — there were only one or two big science fiction movies per summer, and only a handful of huge summer movies total. But summer movies have gotten bigger and more franchise-driven in the past decade, and science fiction is at the center of that transformation. We chart the rise of summer-movie gridlock, with a list of every summer scifi hit since 1980. More »
will smith
Just look at all the science fiction movies Will Smith has starred in over the past dozen years. Is it because he's a fan? No, it's just because he's a craven careerist. Don't believe us? Proof after the jump.
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Will Smith Is Sci Fi Careerist
Just look at all the science fiction movies Will Smith has starred in over the past dozen years. Is it because he's a fan? No, it's just because he's a craven careerist. Don't believe us? Proof after the jump.
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tv this week
Battlestar Galactica finally returns to TV for just one night. This Saturday, the Sci-Fi Channel airs the long-awaited Battlestar Galactica: Razor airs at 9:00 PM. We'll have our own reviews, plus detailed coverage, later in the week. For now, suffice to say that it feels like what it is: the show time-traveling back to its second season, when the storylines were strongest.
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Battlestar Galactica Rocks Our Saturday Night
Battlestar Galactica finally returns to TV for just one night. This Saturday, the Sci-Fi Channel airs the long-awaited Battlestar Galactica: Razor airs at 9:00 PM. We'll have our own reviews, plus detailed coverage, later in the week. For now, suffice to say that it feels like what it is: the show time-traveling back to its second season, when the storylines were strongest.
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men in black
Must See: Men In Black
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.Title: Men in Black
Date: 1997
Vitals: A secret government agency rids the Earth of various alien riff-raff, using an amusing panoply of cool weapons and well-written jokes. More »
