The 22 Most Awful Moments in Science Fiction

From the online oft hilarious magazine Something Awful is the 22 most awful moments in science fiction. These series of rants are often extremely funny and often you can't help but agree...

Like calling the original Battlestar Galatica creatively bankrupt! OMG can you say letter bomb?!

or calling Kubrick's 2001 self-indulgent ugly psychedelic BS (I swear, I am not making this up!

How about when Marc Okrand wrote the dictionary of Klingon? the writer said "Klingon may not be a true language, but it's close enough to ensure that 50 fat guys with lumpy headpieces aren't getting laid anytime soon"

And it goes on and on! Be warned the language is rough and the opinions will often make you consider mass murder or something close to it. But it goes away fast, because you will be laughing so hard that you will need to change your skivies.... Have fun

Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found

Almost a century after a mysterious explosion in Russia flattened a huge swath of Siberian forest, scientists have found what they believe is a crater made by the cosmic object that made the blast.
The crater was discovered under a lake near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in western Siberia, where the cataclysm, known as the Tunguska event, took place. In their new study, a team of Italian scientists used acoustic imagery to investigate the bottom of Lake Cheko. The basin of Lake Cheko is not circular, deep, and steep like a typical impact crater. nstead it's elongated and shallow, about 1,640 feet (500 meters) long with a maximum depth of only 165 feet. "We suggest that a 10-meter-wide [33-foot-wide] fragment of the object escaped the explosion and kept going in the same direction. It was relatively slow, about 1 kilometer a second [0.6 mile a second]," said Luca Gasperini, a geologist with the Marine Science Institute in Bologna .

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Faux robot walker

Want to create a robot walking machine for yourself, but don't want to deal with all of the fussy gyro stabilization and gait-control issues? Here's how to fake it. (And get your started thinking about NEXT Halloween's costume.)




click here for the Make Magazine article on how to build

Wastelands set for 1/19/2008 release!

Editor John Joseph Adams writes me to let us know that his newest collection Wastelands which can best be described as stories where the central theme is the Apocalypse. 22 stories from a diverse and talented group. Here is a partial list of the stories:

Hugo Award winner "Speech Sounds"by Octavia E. Butler

Locus Award winner "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" by Cory Doctorow

World Fantasy Award finalist"The End of the Whole Mess" by Stephen King

Hugo & Nebula Award finalist" The People of Sand and Slag" by Paolo Bacigalupi

Hugo & Nebula Award finalist "Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus" by Neal Barret, Jr.

Nebula Award finalist "The End of the World as We Know It" by Dale Bailey

The book is set for January 19th release in 2008. I will be putting up a review of the book asap, but what I have already seen in the contents and the graphics, I am very impressed. Looks good so far.

Click the title or here to go to Night Shade books.

Film Of 1954 Extraterrestrial and U.S. President Eisenhower Meeting?

Ever read an article that is so twisted it could be a really good story? Well then, if you answered yes, you are going to love this piece that Shaun Saunders sent me. What the writer purports is that there exsists a black and white movie of the meeting between President Eisenhower and human ET’s which took place allegedly in 1954. It runs on a bit, so I am not going to ruin it by cutting parts out of it and posting it here. It's entertaining and would make a great story all on its own. Click here for the complete story