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Twin Moonraker Space Stations in Orbit, Obvious Plot to Destroy Earth!

Robert Bigelow, owner of the Budget Suites hotel chain and head of Bigelow Airspace, has two functioning space stations in orbit around Earth. The older module, Genesis 1, just passed its 10,000th orbit, and both it and Genesis 2 appear to be functioning normally. It's pretty exciting that an entrepreneur can keep two small stations in orbit , and move ahead with his plans to launch a crewed "Sundancer" version by 2011. But has anyone thought about what Bigelow's really up to? "Bigelow Aerospace" sounds an awful lot like "Drax Industries" in Moonraker... oh sure, there's probably nothing to worry about. But could it really hurt if we politely asked Mr. Bigelow to search the Genesis modules for nerve gas? (from Space.com)

9:32 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By Michael Reilly
1,098 views, 17 comments

Latest by brentbent: I'd love a longer story about these two stations and Bigelow's stated intentions. more »

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Are Spy Movies Science Fiction?

We don't talk much about the cloak-and-dagger genre here at io9. We haven't touched on the new James Bond movie, despite the scifi-sounding title (Quantum Of Solace.) We've barely even talked about Get Smart. (We did celebrate the history of James Bond's scifi plots, including Moonraker's fantastic space battle. But we're up in the air about how much of the spy genre belongs within the geodesic dome of science fiction.) Maybe you can help us settle the question. More »

2:45 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,492 views, 39 comments

Latest by Silver_Back: Nien! more »

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Bad Movie Physics: A Report Card

Space epics almost always play fast and loose with science, treating the laws of physics like suggestions. Sound in space, unprotected bodies splatting in vacuum, and alien planets that all look just like Calabasas. But some movies dismember Newton and Einstein with way more gusto than others. We rated 18 movies based on how many laws of physics they mangled, and here's our report card. More »

10:00 AM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
141,494 views, 135 comments

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James Bond's Greatest Space Battle

Squads of NASA commandos laser-blast space terrorists in this awesome set piece from Moonraker, James Bond's Star Wars knockoff. My favorite part: when the astronauts get killed in this zero-G environment, they sometimes start falling, as if their willpower alone had been holding them up. Moonraker marked the apex of James Bond's career as a science hero, but click through for some of the other James Bond scifi highlights. More »

11:20 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By charliejane
1,297 views, 9 comments

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10 Ways To Destroy The Earth Without Nukes

You can't really call yourself an evil genius unless you've got a clever scheme for wrecking our planet once and for all. And no, using nuclear weapons doesn't really count as "clever." Nukes are so 1950. Here's a list of the 10 coolest ways to smash Earth, or at least render it uninhabitable, without splitting any atoms. More »

2:30 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007
By charliejane
1,042 views, 2 comments