Hooray – it’s Sci-Friday – enjoy this little trip down retrofuturist tech lane where we talk about the nascent, niche technology: TV modems! Back in the late 90s – pre-broadband – you were interested in ANY technology that allowed you to download faster than 56K. Why? It took forever! Throughput times in the days, months,…
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For this Sci-Friday, I’m passing along some free classic scifi short stories that I think you’ll enjoy. One of them is over a hundred years old and predicts email and video projectors. Short stories introduce complex topics and share ideas in bite-sized chunks. I learned to write short stories by reading what other authors have…
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Hooray – we made it to Sci-Friday – please enjoy this scifi movie ‘Without Warning,’ a remake of Orson Welles’ famous ‘War of the Worlds’ broadcast from 1994. Take a look: Watching Without Warning on YouTube is an interesting slice-of-life, since the video includes mid-90s commercials and other ‘pre-9/11’ production elements that you wouldn’t…
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For this Sci-Friday – what if Star Wars was made in 1923? That’s the premise behind this charming, MidJourney-driven fan film by douggy.com. Come for the steampunk R2-D2, stay for the bad John Williams soundtrack coming from underwater! Take a look: As noted in previous Sci-Friday’s – you don’t need a big budget or crazy…
For this Sci-Friday, enjoy this SNL lampoon of every young adult dystopian novel, ever. I’ve voiced my disdain for dystopia and post-apoc fiction before, but let’s take a moment to reflect on why, again. Watch out for one swear at the end but otherwise this is safe for kids. Take a look: Yeah, yeah…
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Let’s decompress from a busy week by enjoying bloopers and from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Come for the Leonard Nimoy, stay for the Nichelle Nichols. Watch and enjoy! According to Wikipedia – Nimoy and Bennett selected a time travel story in which the Enterprise crew encounters a problem that could only be…
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For this Sci-Friday – that time your cat was abducted by aliens. I’m not sure how Moxie and Mason would handle being abducted but I’d like to think they’d handle it like this kitty did. Enjoy! The Night The Cat Was Abducted Alien abductions as a whole have been reported since 1897. Wikipedia says: ‘At…
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Today in the funniest Sci-Friday ever, please enjoy a video I call: Detroit Meets The Naked Gun. Frank Drebin is an android and he’s out to clean up the future dirty city – enjoy! For those of you that don’t know, The Naked Gun is based on a tv show called ‘Police Squad’ and it’s…
Yay – Sci-Friday – we made it! Let’s enjoy that time Gordon Freeman called into Coast to Coast AM to describe his troubles at the Black Mesa Research Facility. This might be confusing to you if you’ve never played Half-Life, but if you have it’s positively hilarious. Take a listen: So yes, in case you’re…
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People have been exploding this week about the Oppenheimer movie – for this Sci-Friday let’s answer the question: How did Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb really work? You may be surprised to learn that an atomic bomb’s detonation isn’t as simple as an explosive bomb. More is involved, and it underscores the pure genius at work in…
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