For this Sci-Friday, we take a trip to the dark side of a Star Wars fan’s visit to the Empire Strikes Back set back in 1980. I know, I know – TV shows love to do ‘lucky fan gets to do X’ segments – Jimmy Kimmel does them all the time. But in the case…
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This Sci Friday is long-overdue – it’s time to celebrate scifi @ 2400bps, BBS Door Games were mobile app games before there were mobile app games. Come take a deep dive into the arcane, 90s-era social gaming adventures! Door games were called ‘door games’ for a simple reason: “They’re called “doors” because they were separate…
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Enjoy some Sci-Friday with this discussion of old-school scifi movies in ‘The Making of Tron.’ This homage to imagination and innovation is nothing short of remarkable – enjoy! Here are some more fun facts about Tron: The film was disqualified from receiving an Academy Award nomination for special effects, because the Academy felt at…
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Every once in a while, a simple concept comes along and bends your head like ‘Scifi Fish in the City’ film: they come out at night. You’ve probably seen this one by artist Christian Szczerba before but it’s my first time, so I wanted to include it as a trippy little Sci-Friday entry. Take a…
Hooray – Sci-Friday is here – please enjoy this DIY Solarpunk: Build your own EV charging station. Why waste time buying a crummy indoor charger off of Amazon when you can *build* your own charging station for fun and profit! Pedro Neves walks us through the process step by step in this video. Take a…
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Let’s celebrate making it through the week with a little ‘repressed Roddenberry’ – this obscure scifi project by Gene “Star Trek” Roddenberry called The Questor Tapes. TQT is a made-for-TV movie written by Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon as a pilot for a 13-episode series on NBC in 1974. Take a look at the…
Oh, the 80s – it was a simpler era, like that time Coke went ‘Back to the Future’ to promote Cherry Coke. Nobody seemed to care! Until now. Come for the bad effects, stay for the Victoria Jackson cameo! Take a look: For legal purposes, this isn’t a rip-off – it’s a ‘pastiche.’ One gets…
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I’m sharing something I learned this week for Sci-Friday – a scifi connection to the Titanic. You may not know about it, either – let’s discuss! First off, here’s more info on John Jacob Astor IV and his scifi novel ‘A Journey in Other Worlds‘ published back in 1894: “The book offers a fictional account of…
For this Sci-Friday, let’s enjoy a quick scifi and darktech product called Ectolife. Rest assured, as skeevy as it sounds, the Ectolife isn’t real. At least, not yet. Take a look and then let’s discuss: Okay so this is clearly some darktech scifi and I don’t blame you for feeling weird about it. I…
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Here’s a famous moment from Art Bell: the Area 51 Shoot Down. Pure theater of the mind – the guy is supposed to be ‘shot down’ during the call – take a listen: Bell ran the ‘Coast to Coast AM’ show from 1988 until 2015 and was known for conspiracy theory topics. Most of it…
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