BMU #365 now Online!

Another hour that just flies by.

I play the conclusion of David Scholes Trath: The Final intervention, just to make sure that I get in them in this week.

Next from the blog and Kallimus:  Trouble with the ISS coolant again, Ray Harryhousen has passed away at 92, Neil DeGrasse-Tyson has a web site that promotes his radio program Startalk  and YouTube videos, there is a link on the wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com BMU blog.  A company has developed a bulletin board that sends two messages, one to adults and one to children in a call to help reduce child abuse.  Check out the blog for more information. 

Earth Sky articles are next, the Milky-way, asteroids, temporary moons and Earth's shadow are on tap. 

I review the live action version of Death Note. 

And finally, chapter 3 of No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber a novelette from the sixties.  

That is it!  I hop you enjoy this week's offering of Beam Me Up.

Beam Me Up episode 326 is now online

Episode 326 of Beam Me Up!

Couple of good offerings this week, plus news and reviews. Like I have said….oh hell you already know lol.

Ok, I start off with a short on Neil Armstrong’s recovery from surgery. Also I make the observation of how many people just had no clue.

The first story for the afternoon is episode 11 of “In Plain Sight” by Jason Kahn. Then a session of Trek Trivia!

Next from EarthSky the new super Chilian telescope Alma is due to be at full strength by next year and scientist are excited by what they expect to get for output from the array. Plus more from EarthSky.

The Curiosity Rover is next on the conversation list. The landing and subsequent photos were exciting beyond all measure. Can’t wait for what comes next.

Finally I review the movie Outlander, which was as bad as it sounds.

In closing this week I end with part 2 of “All That Touches the Air” by An Owomoyela.

That and other incidentals this week on episode 326 of Beam Me Up

Ender's Game is Going to be Released When? WTF!?

Have you been waiting anxiously for the release of the movie version of O.S. Card's Ender Game? If you were like me, you were chewing nails when we found out it wasn't slated until March of 2013 but at least we had a date....now the function word here was March....because...hope you're setting down...it has been pushed back to November 1, 2013! Michael Hinman writing in Airlock Alpha speculates that it is to coincide with the release of the sequel to The Hunger Games, which will be released 3 weeks later. That sounds insane to me...I really does sound like a recipe for how to kill a movie! A movie based on a book little known outside the genre up against the sequel to a familiar movie....EG may be dead before before it hits the starting blocks.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Summit Entertainment, a division of Lionsgate, is doing this on purpose! They are going to publicize both films together, and actually use the excitement surrounding "Catching Fire" (Hunger Games pt2) to get more attention to "Ender's Game."

Really? REALLY?! I agree with what Michael said just prior to this brilliant marketing announcement....Most studios would keep so similar films well apart from one another...

oh well, you can read the article here

oh and check out the movie poster.  That is a FAN made movie poster!