Happy Black Friday – great news, they found that X-Files Song! ‘Staring at the Stars’ has been one of those ‘obscure media mysteries’ that Internet sleuths love to solve. It’s been located and is now on Youtube for you to enjoy. Take a listen: I can hear a little ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ in…
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Ooh ooh – Gates McFadden spills the Star Trek Tea on this Sci-Friday. A recent appearance on the Inside of You podcast gave us some next-level insight on Beverly Crusher’s character in the first season of Star Trek: TNG. Who knew being Wesley’s mom could be so spicy?? I got a kick out of this…
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What would it look like to travel across the Milky Way in four minutes? Our galaxy is 100,000 light-years across – traveling that distance in four minutes comes with interesting physics-related consequences. Come along for the ride as we fall into the Milky Way galaxy and back out again – take a look: Kudos…
Hooray – we made it to Sci-Friday – let’s enjoy the beautiful cyberpunk chaos of Dynamo. It’s a dystopian science fiction web series created by Ian Hubert and Scott Hampson, and the side series Dynamo Dream, that anyone can edit! Here’s Episode 1, Part 1 of the spin-off series Dynamo Dreams. Take a look: Sounds…
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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…
