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Space Tourism To Enter Final Orbit
Sales of tickets for Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space flights will plummet (well, even more than usual) with the announcement of next year's planned release for Final Orbit. It's a new disaster movie that aims to take the well-worn airplane emergency genre to the stars... before crashing into a supernova at great speeds. More »
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We Are Tracking Your Every Movement, But In a Fun Way
Want to find out when your gadgets will start following you around, and how easy it will be for you to do "reality mining" to find your friends by tracking their cell signals on Google maps? Then head out to Burlingame, CA today and tomorrow for O'Reilly's annual Where 2.0 conference. I've been to this conference several years in a row, and it's always packed with weird futuristic technologies for tracking locations and creating awesome maps. Basically, it's about turning the real world into something you can access online in real time. Conference organizer Brady Forrest says, "I think that you can find a scifi angle in almost every segment of the conference." More »
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Giant Alien Woman Swallows Fratboy Whole
Here's the sleaziest and most scifi moment from the unappreciated classic Dude Where's My Car. The two stoner dorks have just "saved the universe" by handing over a big universe-destroying machine to a pair of Arnold Schwarzenegger clones. But the five vaguely identical evil alien women want to destroy the universe, for some reason that's never really explained. So they morph into a single giant, who stomps through the video arcade, munching on fratboys before finally getting splatted. Click through for an even sleazier moment featuring Jennifer Garner. More »
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Flash Gordon Heading Somewhere, Honest
Geek site Pink Raygun tries to convince the world that Flash Gordon is worth watching (That "Yes!!!" you heard in the background? That was Annalee agreeing wholeheartedly) by interviewing consulting producer (and Painkiller Jane survivor) Gillian Horvath, who does her best to tell those of us who didn't stick around past the second episode where we went wrong. More »
ultimate weapons
It's been said that a real hero only needs courage and bare hands to do the job, but thankfully Wizard Magazine knows better. They've chosen the 50 greatest fictional weapons of fantasy and science fiction, and ranked them in order of just how awesome they are.
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Rock, Paper, Hitler's Handgun
It's been said that a real hero only needs courage and bare hands to do the job, but thankfully Wizard Magazine knows better. They've chosen the 50 greatest fictional weapons of fantasy and science fiction, and ranked them in order of just how awesome they are.
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