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    Hamslicer: Akira more »
    bradtem: In fact, any panspermia plot is pretty much going to be scientific nonsense, unless you put the panspermia back close to a billion years. The "Ark" ... more »
    paragrab: OK, I kind of feel like a dick for mentioning this, but you shorted me two Tales. Or was that cleverly asking for suggestions? Hmmm... more »
    scroggzilla raids again: H.P. Lovecraft anyone? more »
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I saw "Mission to Mars" on a plane, which is the only reason I did. Said plane was from Silicon Valley to Worldcon, and thus full of science and SF ge... more »
    lightninglouie: My guess is that BSG is set in the far-off future, and the Colonials and the Cylons are all descendants of a post-Singularity humanity that nearly wip... more »
    Mecharine: For the Twilight Zone episode,wouldnt "Adam and Eve" have the connotation that they would be kicked out of their "Eden"? more »
    James7344: Ancient Star Trek also looked into panspermia. "Have no fear - Sargon is here".And, lest we leave out anime, have a look at the Gall Force series. more »
    steam23: Arthur C Clark's 2001 series might be a contender for this list. The monolith builders seemed more about seeding sentience though, so I'm not sure if ... more »
    arthurborko: The Stargate thing is kinda off. "Human" Life on Earth is the second Evolution of the species of the "Ancients". Millions of years ago the Alterans es... more »
  • #triviagasm

    Our Alien Origins: 21 Panspermia Tales

    Planet Earth might be home sweet home, but is it really humanity’s birthplace? We explore science fiction stories where humans come from everywhere but Earth, be it by colonization, alien experiments, or good old-fashioned panspermia. More »
  • #sciencefictiondeaths

    12 Coolest Deaths In Science Fiction History

    It's never great to watch a beloved science fiction hero die — but sometimes a memorable heroic death can help turn a science fiction story into a real epic. And some science fiction characters are unforgettable and bad-ass precisely because they died in a memorable way. Here's our list of the dozen greatest deaths in the history of science fiction. With some spoilers, natch. More »
  • #tvthisweek

    TV This Week: Chief Tyrol Invades Smallville

  • #chart

    Bad Movie Physics: A Report Card

  • #marsmovies

    What Killed The Mars Movie Fad?

    People have been making movies about Mars for decades, but the real boom in semi-realistic Mars movies started about a decade ago — and ended pretty soon afterward. A spate of movies about Mars, some of which aimed to show the first human exploration of the planet, started around 1999 and stopped in 2002... just before NASA started launching a ton of Mars probes and President Bush talked about sending humans to Mars. What killed the Mars movie? More »
  • #missiontomars

    Looking for Life on Mars with the Next Generation Rover

    Definitely one of the coolest symposia at AAAS was the one this afternoon devoted to the Martian rovers — past, present, and future. On the panel were NASA's Richard Cook, who helped design Spirit and Opportunity as well as the next Martian rover; Steven Squyres, a Cornell geologist who has been working with Spirit and Opportunity to get as many geological samples as he can while the rovers survive; and Andrew Knoll, a Harvard planetologist who has studied the evidence for Martian water extensively (including whether it could support life as we know it). I've got highlights from the panel below, plus a giant gallery of pictures of a life-sized model of the new rover, the Mars Science Lab Rover (MSL), which will be blasting off late next year and landing on the red planet in 2010.
  • #mars

    Building An Ice Castle On Mars

  • #spaceage

    Space Is More Fun Without Space Travel