Time Traveling Robots in Space #44 - There Is No Such Thing As Pop

Continuum gets to continue, 12 friendly robots and why fiction is better than truth when it comes to space travel.


* A second season for Continuum and Syfy gets the U.S. contract.
http://www.deadline.com/2012/08/syfy-to-acquire-canadian-sci-fi-drama-continuum/
http://io9.com/5937971/continuum-renewed-for-second-season-now-when-will-the-us-get-it

* The Movie Fone website posts a list of famously friendly robots.
http://news.moviefone.com/2012/08/17/most-friendly-movie-robots_n_1797503.html

* The laws of science that are broken to make good space tales.
http://io9.com/5936924/10-myths-about-space-travel-that-make-science-fiction-better

* A 4 armed mohawked robot plays the Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop."
http://youtu.be/X1jsU1lBZMc

* This week's Audible.com pick  Jack Finney's From Time To Time

 * And, our personal picks; the trailer for the movie Robot and Frank, Robbie,a short film by Neil Harvey  and The Nerdist tribute to Time Travel from BBC America.

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Time Traveling Robots in Space #42 - Breaking the Fourth Wall-E

Time traveling cops from 1985, if Google built a robot and the greatest picture ever taken.



* A new time travel web series from Fast Five director Justin Lin.
http://www.hollywood.com/news/Fast_Furious_Justin_Lin_Director_Squad_85_YouTube_Show/36146616

* Is Google building their own robot?
http://www.webpronews.com/google-asks-are-we-ready-for-robots-who-can-think-act-and-relate-to-humans-2012-08

* The Mars Curiosity rover arrives at it's destination, and we've got the photographic evidence.
http://io9.com/5932151/a-photograph-of-curiosity-during-landing-has-been-leaked

* The Wall-E robot brought to life.
http://youtu.be/7cs7FGCrkPw
http://mashable.com/2012/08/03/life-size-wall-e/

* This week's Audible.com pick Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars.

 * And, our personal picks; the original Total Recall film, Better Off Ted episode The Great Repression and the recently released remake of Total Recall.

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