Jericho may get a repeal from CBS!!!

From the SyFy Blog:

TV Guide columnist and chief scooper Michael Ausiello is reporting that CBS is close to announcing that the recently-cancelled television show "Jericho" is going to get an eight-episode renewal.

"Multiple sources are telling me that CBS is this close to sealing a deal to bring 'Jericho' back for at least eight episodes, possibly at mid-season," Ausiello said.

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Slingatron shoots stuff into space on the cheap

From the Sci Fi Tech blog:

The problem with putting stuff in space is that it's just so damn expensive; otherwise everybody would be doing it (apart from just governments and eccentric billionaires). Sending a mere pound of material into space these days costs over $10,000 using conventional rockets. Thinking unconventionally, Derek Tidman, president of Advanced Launch Corporation, came up with the Slingatron: a launcher that shoots projectiles into space by spinning them faster and faster until they reach escape velocity and then firing them up into the final frontier.

Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D

After a thousand years stuck on a dusty library shelf, the oldest copy of Homer's Iliad is about to go into digital circulation. A team of scholars traveled to a medieval library in Venice to create an ultra-precise 3-D copy of the ancient manuscript -- complete with every wrinkle, rip and imperfection -- using a laser scanner mounted on a robot arm. A high-resolution, 3-D copy of the entire 645-page parchment book, plus a searchable transcription, will be made available online under a Creative Commons license.

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Jericho may have a second life?

From the SyFy Portal blog:

Although rumors are persisting that CBS has no intention of bringing back its cancelled post-apocalytic series "Jericho," the series' former showrunner Carol Barbee assured fans late Thursday night that there might be a future for the show elsewhere. "We heard there were some rumors, that some of the [network] affiliates had been talking in Las Vegas," said Barbee.

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Battlestar Galactica's fourth season to be its last!

thanks to SFSignals for the heads up!

According to the LATimes: Battlestar Galactica" will end its run next year after its fourth and final season. According to a high level source at Sci Fi Channel parent company NBC Universal, the show will end after its next 22-episode season, slated to kick off in early 2008. Rumors began circulating this month when two "Battlestar Galactica" stars, Edward James Olmos and Katee Sackhoff, referred to the next season as the show's swan song.

SCI-Fi channel is also now confirming the story.