Showing posts with label After Earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label After Earth. Show all posts

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Time Traveling Robots in Space #47 - What A Bee Brain!


Backwards time travel debunked, bee brains for robots and upcoming sci-fi movies that aren't sequels or remakes.



* What is Looper's potential for real world time travel?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/showbiz/movies/looper-time-travel-pierce/index.html

* Scientists want to upload bee brains into robots.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57525206/engineers-hope-to-upload-bees-brains-into-robots/

* Upcoming sci-fi films that aren't remakes or sequels.
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/22850/10-sci-fi-films-to-look-forward-to-in-2013

* This week's Audible.com pick, Saturn: A Novel of the Ringed Planet by Ben Bova

* And, our picks; The Kerbal Space Program game, the Radio Lab interview with astronaut Dave Wolf,
the short film Rocket boy Roger and the astronomy podcast The Jodcast.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Time Traveling Robots in Space #39 - I Want To Go To Space Yo!

Time travel story gets Fifth Element treatment, some robot face time, Branson doubles down on Virgin Galactic and what outdated technology   in films that bother us.


* A theoretical physicist who thinks time travel is possible.
http://boingboing.net/2012/07/17/the-physics-of-time-travel.html

* Luc Besson adapting time-travel comic into film.
http://io9.com/5922655/luc-besson-adapting-classic-time+travel-comic-created-by-fifth-element-concept-artist

* First recorded human on cyborg attack.
http://mashable.com/2012/07/17/google-glass-eyewear-bizarre-attack/

* "Face" robot shows range of human emotions.
http://mashable.com/2012/07/15/human-robot/

* New marketing video shows the pre-history of After Earth.
http://io9.com/5926084/the-incredibly-complicated-mythology-of-will-smith-and-m-night-shyamalans-after-earth
http://youtu.be/Rwe3HhgmFM8
http://www.webpronews.com/new-teaser-for-m-night-shyamalans-after-earth-channels-facebook-timeline-2012-07

* Branson does satellites and announces first Virgin Galatic passenger flight for 2013 .
http://mashable.com/2012/07/16/branson-space-flight/

* Mars rover landing: The Video Game.http://io9.com/5926423/nasa-releases-a-mars-rover-landing-video-game-for-xbox-360 

* Our Audible.com pick Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas.

Plus, our picks… The comic book Atomic Robo Volume 1: Atomic Robo & the Fightin Scientists of Tesladynethe film Simone and the short story On The Rail

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