New evidence loosely supports popular SF tropes, lab-grown meat may be available soon, Russia (possibly) loses a satellite, Japan looks to cleaning up the mess we’ve made in space, and a teen’s death ray catches the Net’s attention.
Category Archives: Newspace
Happy New Year!
We hope everyone welcomes 2011 in safety and with happiness. Meanwhile, enjoy some links (including Plinkett’s long-awaited Sith review):
Newspace
Private spaceflight, a Martian record, extra-terrestrial green and gold, and more.
On Wednesday, SpaceX had a successful launch and splashdown (check
here and here), and they hope for a visit to the space station in the near future
Bloody Hell! Wrong Neil
We might have not bothered mentioning that researchers at McMaster University in Canada have figured out how to make blood from skin cells, but we couldn’t pass up a link to this story wherein someone mistook Neil Gaiman for Neil Patrick Harris.
Dead Drops
Artist Aram Bartholl has been installing flash drives in public places— highly unusual places– in and around New York for people to download/upload whatever they will. The history of the Web suggests one should approach these with caution. Fascinating idea, though.
And a Happy Halloween to everybody!
Newspace: Stars, Space Tourism, Robots, and Scarlett Johansson
Space tourism continues to grow, a few rich guys at a time; Virgin Galactic hopes for regular flights by 2012.
The stars may not be counted but the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had found a new way to weigh them
Scarlett Johansson may be starring as Elizabeth Bennet in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a role that had been attached to Natalie Portman.
Finally, Japan demonstrates an early-generation prototype for the Cylons—or, at least, replacement for Katie Perry and Lady Gaga:
Newspace: A Youtube Round-up
A press conference this week sends UFOlogists and Conspiracy Theorists into overdrive, Firefly gets reimagined as a musical, and an NSFW zombie film features strippers and…. living dead sushi!
Newspace September 2010
New types of moon rocks and elephant shrews, Batman teams up once more with Scooby-doo, while Rachel Bloom (famous for a certain recent NSFW youtube hit) finally meets Ray Bradbury.
More below:
Newspace
Alex Case on used game-bashing, SETI’s anniversary, cars that drink and drive, a licensed celebrity Stormtrooper, NASA news, and an NSFW video about why being an SF writer can rock.
Anything to add?
Oddball Round-up
WolframAlpha answers inquiries about Skynet, altered primates give their offspring one to glow on, some nerdy observations needed to be made, and the founder of Cirque du Soleil will be the next Billionaire in Space!
