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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Happy Sci-Friday – please enjoy this video essay and 3D animation of NASA’s ‘Rubber Room,’ a safety bunker located beneath the launch pads at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39. Watch the video and then we’ll discuss some interesting details: When I first ran across this video, my first thought was ‘wait, is this like…
For this Sci-Friday, sit back and watch a scifi short movie with striking visuals – ‘Wayward Gods.’ In a futuristic cyberpunk Thailand, a lone warrior must battle both his own karma, and the forces of evil, without using violence. Happy Friday, we made it! 🙂 What’s the deal with this four-minute short? According to the…
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Congrats – we made it through the week – let’s use Sci-Friday #187 to discuss the magical world of Jurassic Park animatronics. Of course, Jurassic Park is known mostly for its innovative CGI. Yet, CGI only makes up six minutes of the movie’s two-hour running time. What were many of the other dazzling special effects?…
For this Sci-Friday, let’s enjoy an interview with William Gibson and the origin of the ‘cyberspace’ term. Take a look at what he says, and then we’ll double-click into some other details. So did William Gibson invent the word ‘cyberspace?’ Not necessarily. According to Wikipedia, the term “cyberspace” first appeared in the visual arts in…
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