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concept art

An Interdimensional Spaceport Off the Coast on Titan

Massive futuristic cubes are surrounded by waiting spaceships and transports in this concept set on a moon orbiting a ringed planet. Artist Steve Burg says he intended it to look inter-dimensional. More »

7:00 PM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By Kevin Kelly
5,204 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: I think the portal concept works much better for science fiction travel, FTL travel depends probably more on how the universe defines it. I like the idea of accelerating space portals. more »

national film registry

Spielberg Gets Locked Into Underground Vault

Two films that Steven Spielberg had a hand in, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Back to the Future, were both selected alongside 23 other films to be shelved forever in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. They'll get locked up inside a hermetically sealed vault, and preserved in mason jars with really tight steel lids, to keep the freshness in. What other scifi films were deemed by the government to be worthy of preservation forever? More »

11:30 AM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Kevin Kelly
458 views, Comment