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Check out this fun timeline documenting all of NASA's Apollo missions, from 1966 to 1972. As part of the viral marketing for the new space-horror movie Apollo 18, they've put together an awesome resource, and here's your first look. More »
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Trying to remember what happened in Lost (and when) before tomorrow's season premiere? The New York Times is here to help with an amazing interactive timeline for the show, complete with video and commentary. [New York Times] More »
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If all time travelers existed in the same timeline, it might look something like this infographic, which outlines which time traveler arrived in which year, how they got there, and what time travel paradoxes could arise. More »
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We all know that Leif Ericson beat Christopher Columbus to the New World, but Chris gets his own holiday because his voyage marks the beginning of Europe's influence in the New World. But what if someone had beaten the Europeans to the punch? What if no culture ever developed the technology or drive to find the continent? What if the Americas’ indigenous peoples formed a federation and dealt with Europe on an equal footing? Fortunately, alternate historians have cooked up plenty of speculative American discovery narratives to keep you busy for Columbus Day. More »
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The best part of time travel movies is always when the crazy scientist/inventor/engineer babbles madly about the hoozits that will allow time to be bent. Even better is when the hoozits swing into action and we see the "traveling in time" effects. Except in Richard Donner's Timeline, which is perhaps one of the worst time travel movies ever made. So bad, in fact, that it is hypnotic. Especially in this scene, where our team of medievalist dweebs is shoved into RenFaire outfits, stuck into a time machine on some ill-defined rescue mission, and shipped off to 1357 in France . . . right at the zoomiest part of the 100 years war. Of course Joan of Arc is there and a bunch of other stupid crap. But let's not focus on that. Let's watch our time travelers travel in the most transcendently dorky way imaginable! [Timeline] More »
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