Category Archives: sci-fi

I wonder what this is …

Original Article [nasa]

Engage psudo-science/fiction : So, when you decelerate out of FTL, aren’t you going to give off a lot of Cherenkov Radiation, and doesn’t the transition from hyperspace to realspace carry over a lot of tachyon/dark-matter particles that have to get shed from the ship in a ‘discharging’ action in the relative proximity [...]

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This is pretty fucking funny…

The Remnants from John August on Vimeo.

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Imagine what 8 years of Stem Cell Research could have given us.

Watching things like this make me even more angry at the religious dogma that strangles our scientific advancement… Imagine if we had had an additional 8 years of Stem Cell Research behind us at this point. And not 8 years of ignorant positions driven by ignorant people.

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“The future is in beta”

I don’t know who said that. Part of me wants to say William Gibson. But I’m not sure.
This evening I’m headed up to NYC to visit my brother for a few days. I decided to take Bolt Bus. They say it has wifi, and the price is very good.
So what the [...]

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I love zombies

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Amazing technical write up on how The Dark Knight was filmed and worked on in Post.

Studio Daily Article on The Dark Knight Production Process.
In short, IMAX breaks the technology that is at hand for most movie production studios, even the big ones. Well worth the read.
To support the IMAX scenes, the studios could not work in full IMAX resolution, which is theoretically 18K; instead, the target resolution was approximately [...]

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Tr2n

The video quality sucks, its obviously from a video phone of some kind.
All I know is that it was recorded at Comic Con, and it looks AWESOME.
Tron 2 Bootleg Trailer http://teaser-trailer.comby dragonball-movie

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First 7 Minutes of Wanted.

mother fucker… the bastards took it down!

I guess I’m going to have to see this film for real now…
The first trailer of this looked horrible.
Then I saw a pretty decent red-band trailer…
now I saw this, and… wow.

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Forget everything I said about loving Dogs… Here comes the Big Dog, and with it the robot wars.

Check the video after the Jump… Watch how far we’ve come with robotics… wow.

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