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Forget Warp Speed, Try One Of These Alternative FTL Ideas

In Star Wars and Star Trek, the main way to get around the galaxy is to use warp speed or flip on your hyperdrive, which is a bit like hitting the gas pedal as hard as you can so you'll get there a bit quicker. There's more science to it than that, involving subspace fields and hyperspace and all that jazz, but the end result is that you're traveling very quickly. But besides speed, what other faster than light alternatives are there? Check out our list of other ways to get there in scifi. More »

3:40 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Kevin Kelly
9,067 views, 123 comments

Latest by n/a: I like books that take the time to really explain how their FTL drives work. The details of what is and isn't possible in terms of interstellar travel would make a huge difference. Snce FTL is made up more »

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io9 Talks To Jumper Director Doug Liman

If you charted Doug Liman's directing career, you'd see a big spike in popularity when he jumped from indie films like Swingers and Go right into the Bourne trilogy. He's hoping to continue in the mainstream, high-concept Hollywood vein with his new film Jumper, opening in select theaters today. The movie follows young "jumper" David Rice (Hayden Christensen) as he uses his "jumping" powers to teleport all over the world. The flick took Liman on his own journey to exotic international locations, only this time without superspy Jason Bourne in tow. Read on to get his thoughts on Jumper, as well as details about his next film, about colonizing the moon. He also tells us why Superman's flying is destroying the environment. More »

12:40 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Kevin Kelly
1,000 views, 15 comments

Latest by guibom: Came on... of course he is digitally put up there (on the Sphinx). It doesn't matter that you didn't create him in 3D. You're still compositing it digitally. Where do we draw the line? It's like in The Fountain. more »

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Kill Your Foes With Creative Teleportation

The Hayden Christensen teleportation movie Jumper comes out in a month, and of course there's a video game to go with it. You'll play the Jamie Bell jumper character Griffin from the movie, who has a particular bone to pick with the anti-Jumper Paladins who are trying to track him down: they killed his parents. Of course, when you have the ability to hop dimensionally through space, it makes fighting a lot more fun. You can teleport your enemy next to a hungry polar bear, or into the path of a shark in an aquarium. In fact, why not just teleport them into a brick wall? You could even be extremely sneaky like Hiro from Heroes and teleport them into your dead father's grave. The possibilities are endless.

4:30 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Kevin Kelly
1,775 views, 19 comments

Latest by n/a: @learnesp: Love that Book! I read it at least once a year. We have the effects technology to make a stunning looking movie out of it. But I don't think we have the writing or directing more »