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more about #seti Julius Seizure - Canuck: Alasdair, if you've given Bey or Emmerich any ideas I swear you're gonna get an atomic noogie. You know we're not supposed to talk about movies like ... more » closeencounter: This whole "movie" is fowl...... more » Anekanta - Go Play!: How fowl! Where'd you pluck this one from? Still, it shows promise--clearly this talon-ted film-maker reached his beak too early. There are trypto... more » ManchuCandidate: As god as my witness I swear 300 ft Turkeys weren't violent. more » TotalFanGirl: Looking to make a long, bloated movie? What you need here is James Cameron! more » Grey_Area: ATTENTION ALL R.O.A.C.H. Personnel: The initial test of the Astrophysicist-Confusing Reverse Laser has been successful. Project Sanjit Death Ray is pr... more » tetracycloide: "Any kind of communication would likely be distinguished from background noise by coming in repeated or non-random patterns." forgive my ignorance, bu... more » goldfarb: X-Men Origins : Wolverine Workprint - Return To Sender. more » Mount_Prion: It's a slow-working death beam--more like a malaise beam--that's been wrecking the economy and people's hopes. more » madjeweler: Lois McMaster Bujold posited a very sensible societal way of integrating cloning technology ethically and responsibly. There were also examples of cri... more » Jamal Dominic Barr: We're all adults and remain in charge of our thinking facilities right--- at least I bloody well hope so. But even if you're not, you can think, corr... more » Sproing: Why is that sheep not looking up? Is it because it's electric? more » Daveinva: The reality is, scientists are usually very bad ethicists (and vice versa). Ethics without science is religious superstition-- science without ethics ... more » ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: There's life out there - I know it - but we won't be able to reach or contact them (in my lifetime), so it's kind of a bummer to even look for Earthli... more » Mav: Too bad we'll all be destroyed the year before so won't be able to enjoy this. more » Grey_Area: About time we start finding some smaller, cooler planets. The big doofuses so far are really annoying. Mouthbreathers, everyone of them. more » Dormouse: Corporate Tool: many of these Earthlike worlds could turn out to have our alien cousins on them. What? I can't have sex with my cousin! more » Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: How about we make it 2013ish just to be safe. [io9.com] more » -
#foundfootage
And Now, At Long Last, The Turkeys Get Revenge
What better way to conclude Turkey Day 2009 than with a forty-year-old fake trailer about a killer 300-foot turkey, shot by a bunch of Caltech astronomers in the style of fifties monster movies? Warning: some truly fowl puns lay ahead! More » -
#aliens
SETI Picks Up Regular Laser Pulse Emanating From Space
Astrophysicist Ragbir Bhathal works with SETI to scan the skies for possible communications from extraterrestrial intelligences. Unlike most SETI facilities, which look for radio signals, Bhathal's looks for laser pulses. And now he's found one. More » -
#scienceandsciencefiction
Science Could Stand To Learn From Science Fiction
Science fiction often gets basic science wrong, but it still has a lot to teach scientists about the implications of their work, says science educator and SF author Mike Brotherton. More » -
#seti
We Could Be Discovering Earthlike Planets By 2013
There are probably billions of Earthlike planets in our galaxy alone, predicts scientist Alan Boss. With NASA launching the Kepler satellite, seeking other Earths, you can expect the first discoveries in a few years. More » -
#veryawesomearray
Very Large Array Getting Even Larger
The 27 massive antenna dishes that make up the Very Large Array radio telescope have given us some astonishing glimpses into the cosmos (and have repeatedly detected signals sent by intelligent aliens in some of our favorite scifi films). As impressive as it is, the VLA is about to get a major upgrade. Astronomers are going to be able to do some amazing things with VLA 2.0. More » -
