Cartoon characters in the Star Wars universe? Meesa don’t believe it!

Disney has announced that Phineas and Ferb and Doofenshmirtz—who will be teaming up with the Avengers this August—will enter the Star Wars Universe next summer.

Update! The Simpsons will also do a Futurama crossover in 2014. They’ve met previously, in the funny pages, of course.

We tried using Google…

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appears to have found the Apollo 11 engines at the bottom of the Atlantic. This Saturday, or course, marks the anniversary of the first moonlanding.

But the view is spectacular

Photographer Thomas O’Brien recently captured this awesome shot of the Milky Way.

Can’t we just watch Comic-Con vid?

Click below for the new Godzilla, a Walking Dead preview, the entire Game of Thrones and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. panels, cosplay, and more!

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Under the Mountains of Madness…

Researchers confirm that Antarctica’s Lake Vostok, frozen under layers of ice for longer than humanity has been around, contains a unique ecosystem with numerous living things.

Let’s not count out Europa as a haven of life forms.

…To the Gulf of Mexico

A forest has been discovered uncovered in the Gulf, buried for at least 50,000 years and remarkably well-preserved.

First, is it plugged in?

NASA will attempt this month to revive the Kepler Telescope, shut down since May due to a technical problem.

Where are those meddling kids, when you need them?

Many people played today with Google’s doodle, which commemorates the sixty-sixth anniversary of the original Roswell crash. But how many people know this week marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Nith River Monster’s first appearance? Yeah, well, I hadn’t heard of it, either, until about a month ago, but I wrote an article about Nithy just the same.

Google Glasses, Despicable Me 2, and cosplay, after the break.

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Voyager One will soon be the first manufactured object to reach interstellar space!

Planetary Resources, which plans to mine near-earth asteroids, has raised over one million through crowdsourcing on Kickstarter for their, well, kickstarter project.

Contact Indy! Archaeologists have found an untouched Pre-Inca tomb in Peru.

Below? Genre entertainment and video, including a prologue for Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, a word on Avengers 2, a restored piece of Trek, and more!

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By now, most of us must be aware of the controversy surrounding PRISM, an online surveillance program run by U.S. intelligence, with the alleged cooperation of many web giants. Information and commentary may be found here, here, and—like PRISM itself– pretty much everywhere. Whistleblower Edward Snowden has disappeared into Hong Kong.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Also, while the story pales by comparison, I’m pairing this item with a creepy cosplay-related violation of rights, documented below (along with some general Newspace):

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Soon to return to earth, astronaut and outgoing ISS commanders covers Bowie from space.

This is freakin’ awesome!

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Virgin Galactic on the home stretch to commercial spaceflight:

What we really want to do is ask what you’ll be doing this weekend for the Con-nerd-gence, the nerdy convergence of May the Fourth (Be With You) and Free Comic Book Day. This weekend also sees the release of Iron Man 3 (look for a review tomorrow), Canada’s largest Anime/Manga Convention, and a good deal more.

Of course, it’s a Newspace, so we have a smattering of SF and science links below, and some video, including a promo for the forthcoming Axe Cop series. But, seriously, what do you have on for this forthcoming geeky weekend?

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Happy Yuri’s Night! Celebrate human spaceflight on Earth… Or Mars.

Truth is stranger than Science Fiction:

NASA’s 2017 Mars Rocket is on schedule and budget.

Tell me yesterday and I might believe you:

The latest person claiming to have invented time travel hails from Iran.

Shameless Self-Promotion is Shameless

In Sarnia April 13? I’ll be paneling at GenreCon 2013, a free, one-day event.

Lots of Cosplay, and some KnightSec activity, and a MAJOR PRIVACY CONCERN, below:

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New crew have been safely delivered to the International Space Station in record time.

Lower the Cone of Silence

We’ve got a Sound cloak that shields objects from sound waves. We could soon have a defense against sonar and excessive noise pollution. And, as on Get Smart, it’s made from inexpensive plastic.

NO RESTROOMS. Try Amazon

Will online shopping destroy your community and cause retailers to act like buttheads?

Con vid below, of course:

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Welcome back!

The Soyuz spacecraft returns with the current crew of the International Space Station.

I luv you guysh….

On the evening of St. Patrick’s Day, depending on where you are in the world, you can get a good view of Jupiter and the moon hanging together in the sky.

More hope for HIV patients

Recent developments suggest we have a functional treatment for AIDS/HIV, for some patients, provided they receive treatment soon after infection.

Shameless Self-Promotion

The current issue of On Spec is available, and it features a story by an author whose name will be familiar to Bureau readers.

Lots of nerdy video below, including an unintended SF/fantasy look at contemporary America:

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Game of Cliques

This Youtube vid sets Game of Thrones in tv’s version of high school:

Mouse Production

Scientists at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, have produced 581 clones of the same mouse, using a technique to avoid the gradual degradation associated with cloning.

Mars Production

Mars One has signed its first deal with a supplier to develop possible tech designs for its future Martian colony.

That’s using your head!

The University of Essex has developed a brain/computer interface for possible use in space.

Douglas Adams, and cosplay, below:

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