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Montreal - Tom Crippen knew he faced a daunting task after the death of
his father, an inveterate pack rat who never threw anything
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Volunteers line up for simulated mission to Mars
16 August 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Kelly Young
More than 70 people have volunteered to be confined in a mock mission to
Mars - for
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Google builds bridge at Star Trek cult convention
Aug 18
Google duplicated the bridge of the fictional Starship Enterprise and
embarked on a mission in Las Vegas to recruit engineers, at a gathering of
cultish Star Trek devotees.
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NASA Announces Dark Matter Discovery
Astronomers who
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Experts meet to decide Pluto fate
Astronomers are gathering in the Czech capital, Prague, hoping to define
exactly what counts as a planet.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) hopes to settle the
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From Nowhere to Out There
By Jason Silverman
Aug, 10, 2006
AS CRUCES, New Mexico - From the passenger seat of Bill Gutmans truck,
Spaceport America looks more John Ford than Jetsons. No gleaming
buildings, no space-age machinery, just a few
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Thursday, August 03, 2006
The Best and Worst Sci-Fi TV Show Openings
I suffer from insomnia, and you benefit. Here are my picks for 10 Best and
10 Worst Opening Credits for Genre TV Shows.
By genre, I mean
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Strange 'twin' new worlds found
A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and
stars have been discovered beyond our Solar System.
A few dozen such objects have been identified in recent
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Japan aims for Moon base by 2030
02 August 2006
NewScientist.com news service
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Japan's space agency has set a goal of constructing a crewed lunar base by
2030, an official
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Life After Earth: Imagining Survival Beyond This Terra Firma
By RICHARD MORGAN
Published: August 1, 2006
When the dust settles after World War III, or World War IX, humanity will
still want to grow pineapples, rice, coffee
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No harm, no foul. :-)
Brent
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By Patricia Reaney
Mon Jul 31
LONDON (Reuters) - It's unlikely to occur by swallowing a pill or donning
a special cloak, but invisibility could be possible in the not too distant
future, according to research published on Monday.
Sweeet! (If true).
Brent
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BABYLON 5 Returns!!
Merrick here...
I've checked around the Internets, and have found little (or no) reference
to the news conveyed through the messages below. But this is definitely
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July 23, 2006
Details emerge on Bezos' spaceport plans
By MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press Writer
- A spacecraft taking off from a private West Texas spaceport being
bankrolled and developed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos would
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Tut's gem hints at space impact
In 1996 in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo de
Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem in the middle of one of
Tutankhamun's necklaces.
The jewel was tested and found
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Long as it doesn't suck, I'll give it a try, if for no other reason than
the fact that Salli
Richardson-Whitfield is in the series, looking more fetching than ever!
Fetching - indeed! Oh Fenna! ;-)
Brent
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Clone 'would feel individuality'
A cloned human would probably consider themselves to be an individual, a
study suggests.
Scientists drew their conclusions after interviewing identical twins about
their
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Virtual reality gaming system tests for telepathy
Scientists at The University of Manchester [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/]
have created a virtual computer world designed to test telepathic ability.
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India Ink
By Tom Marcinko
Picture this: A global pop-culture renaissance out of India.
Headquartered in New York and Bangalore, a small army of writers and
artists unleashes a new breed of India-infused comic books and Asian-edged
animated
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Mon Jul 10, 2006
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Albert Einstein had half a dozen girlfriends
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Josy
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Detecting Prejudice In The Brain
Three Florida teenagers recently pleaded not guilty to the brutal beatings
and in one case, death, of homeless men. One of the
I'm looking for a short story collection (or
maybe anthology) from a while back, which
uniquely featured stories which were based on
economic principals. (So it advertised in the
blurb on the back of the jacket.)
The one story that stands out in my memory: In a
brief introduction, set in
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8 Therefore shalt a robot
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Show Over for the Lord of the Rings
June 28, 2006
Local News
Jaimie Kehler (CFRB News)
The curtain will soon close on Toronto's production of The Lord of the
Rings thanks to poor ticket sales and a few lousy reviews.
Producers announced today that the show
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Rowling says 2 characters die in final Potter book
Mon Jun 26, 2006
LONDON (Reuters) - Children's author J.K. Rowling has revealed that at
least two
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Foam still vexes NASA after fixes to shuttle
Mon Jun 26
By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - It's been 3.5 years and hundreds of
millions
Sword of Shannara book as
well.
Shannara as well, yes.
_
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Behalf Of Brent Wodehouse
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Subject: [scifinoir2] Tim Hildebrandt has died
Sorry for the lateness
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Addicted To Knowledge
Neuroscientists at the University of Southern California have proposed a
simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The
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NASA tries to repair Hubble telescope
Last Updated Sat, 24 Jun 2006
CBC News
The Hubble Space Telescope has broken down, and scientists aren't sure why.
The telescope, which has revolutionized space science, went down on
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Sorry for the lateness of this post. To me, Tim's and Greg's visual
rendering of Tolkien's fantasy world is definitive. He shall be missed.
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LEGENDARY ARTIST TIM HILDEBRANDT HAS PASSED AWAY
by Arune Singh, Staff
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Futurama Pulls a Family Guy
By Gina Serpe
Comedy Central is going back to the Futurama.
Three years after the show last aired on prime time, the cable net has
signed a deal to resurrect the former Fox animated series for a minimum
13-episode
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Spielberg going down a wormhole
Staff and agencies
Tuesday June 20, 2006
Steven Spielberg is flying back into space. The man who brought us ET and
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is to develop a film about a group of
space explorers
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Enigmatic object baffles supernova team
June 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Jeff Hecht
An astronomical enigma has been spotted by a team hunting for very distant
supernovas for their studies of
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In 'Krrish,' Bollywood Gets a Superhero of Its Own
By ANUPAMA CHOPRA
MUMBAI
IS the next big thing in superheroes a masked man who leaps from
skyscraper to skyscraper, saves the world and suddenly breaks into song?
Audiences will find out
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before now?
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Work begins on Arctic seed vault
Norway is starting construction on a doomsday vault in the Arctic which
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Don't get too literal on me, Brent, I was making a joke...
Oh, for Heaven's sake, attach the appropriate emoticon, please; because
I'm an awful guesser, you know. ;-)
Brent
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I'm
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Work begins on Arctic seed vault
Norway is starting construction on a doomsday vault in the Arctic which
is designed to house all known varieties of the world's crops.
Dug into a frozen mountainside on the island of Svalbard, it is hoped
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Critics wowed by Superman return
The first reviews for Superman Returns have given the new movie, which
stars newcomer Brandon Routh as the legendary superhero, a resounding
thumbs up.
Variety magazine's critic said it was grandly conceived,
Saturday 17 June 2006
Locus Awards Winners
Winners of this year's Locus Awards, voted by readers of Locus Magazine in
the annual Locus Poll, were were announced this afternoon at the Science
Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle.
Best Science Fiction Novel
Accelerando, Charles Stross
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'Star Trek' Fans, Deprived of a Show, Recreate the Franchise on Digital
Video
By DANNY HAKIM
Published: June 18, 2006
MASON NECK STATE PARK, Va. - Paul Sieber was wearing a Star Trek uniform
in
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Beliefwatch: Good Fight
Newsweek
June 19, 2006 issue - Is the Man of Steel a man of faith? The upcoming
Superman movie has sent fans picking over primary sources. Jews have
often claimed the archetypal superhero as their own. Superman sprang
Heaven knows I try. ;-)
Brent
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Brent, after some deliberation, I have determined that you are, quite
properly, ONE SICK PUPPY!!!
Keep it coming Dude!
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Hawking Says Humans Must Go Into Space
Jun 13
By SYLVIA HUI
HONG KONG (AP) - The survival of the human race depends on its ability to
find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing
risk that a disaster will
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High hopes for drone in LA skies
By Peter Bowes
BBC News, Los Angeles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drone aircraft, are
about to be launched for the first time by the police in Los
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Study: 'Planemos' may spawn planets and moons
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO NEWS RELEASE
Posted: June 5, 2006
Forget our traditional ideas of where a planetary system forms - new
research led by a University of Toronto astronomer reveals that
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Wardrobe for the Weightless: Space Inspires Fashion Show
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 09 June 2006
Maybe musician Donald Fagen was onto something. In his classic 1982 song,
I.G.Y. (What A Beautiful World), the
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By the Power of Grayskull!
Rediscovering the heroic cartoon beefcake of my youth.
By Sam Anderson
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Military Seeks Invisibility Cloak
Associated Press | May, 25, 2006
WASHINGTON - Imagine an invisibility cloak that works just like the one
Harry Potter inherited from his father.
Researchers in England and the United States think they
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Chicken and egg debate unscrambled
Egg came first, 'eggsperts' agree
Friday, May 26, 2006
LONDON, England - It's a question that has baffled scientists, academics
and pub bores through the ages: What came first, the chicken or the
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Voyager 2 Detects Odd Shape of Solar System's Edge
By Ker Than
Staff Writer
posted: 23 May 2006
Voyager 2 could pass beyond the outermost layer of our solar system,
called the termination shock, sometime within the next year,
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CBS' Schedule for the Fall
By The Associated Press Wed May 17
CBS' prime-time schedule for the fall, announced by the network Wednesday.
Series in all caps are new; (NT) denotes a new time for an existing series:
Monday
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Christie's to hold Star Trek garage sale
Fri May 19, 2006
By Chris Michaud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trekkies will be setting their phasers to
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DNA hints at Jill the Ripper
By Jade Bilowol
May 17, 2006
JACK the Ripper could well be a Jill.
In a bid to crack the identity of one of the greatest murder mysteries of
all time, technology developed in Australia
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Last paragraph:
'NBC is canceling the failed Friends spinoff Joey, the sci-fi drama
Surface and producer Dick Wolfâs show about youthful prosecutors,
Convicte
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Digital Domain
Someone Has to Pay for TV. But Who? And How?
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: May 7, 2006
THEY will take my remote control away only when they pry it from my cold,
dead hands.
This thought followed my first
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Our expert panel votes for the top 10 sci-fi films
1. Blade Runner (1982) Dir: Ridley Scott
Whether you prefer the original theatrical version (with a bored-sounding
narration and without the famed unicorn scenes) or the
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Doctor Who dog K9 gets spin-off
Doctor Who's robotic dog K9 is to get its own TV spin-off featuring a
mixture of live action and computer animation.
Children's TV channel Jetix Europe is joining forces
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Brent, any idea as to which K9 it will be? The one that the Doctor gave
Sarah Jane, or the one who stayed in E-Space with Romana?
I would assume it to be Sarah Jane Smith's (Elisabeth Sladen) K9, as she
and the robotic dog appear in the 2006 series.
Brent
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We Lost It at the Movies
How Hollywood freaked out over vanishing audiences - whove now magically
reappeared - and why teenage boys are a studios worst habit.
By Lynda Obst
You may have heard that recently, the entire
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The Bosnia-Atlantis Connection
April 27, 2006
by Mark Rose
Frenzied reporting of supposed pyramids in the Balkans ignores the truth
and embraces the fantastic.
The world's oldest and largest pyramid found in Bosnia? It sounds
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NASA Says Comet Fragments Won't Hit Earth
By Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
posted: 27 April 2006
Chunks of a comet currently splitting into pieces in the night sky will
not strike the Earth next month, nor will it spawn killer
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'Galactica' Prequel on Tap at Sci Fi
'Chariots of the Gods' miniseries also in development
April 26 2006
The Sci Fi Channel will delve into the backstory of Battlestar Galactica
with a new
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Has anyone seen this? I've always wanted to check it out since the
X-Files made a spoof of it.
Cat
I had the opportunity to view it when it was shown in booth years ago at
Syndicon. I was unimpressed and unconvinced, sadly.
Brent
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PlanetXpo and the Science Fiction Museum Hall of Fame are proud
to announce the 40th Anniversary Conference and Celebration of Star
Trek: the show that changed television and our world.
Festivities will be held at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle,
WA, on Sept. 8-10, 2006. Events include a
, they sold their souls to let China censor Google, so why
should we be surprised?
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Fly me to the moon - by catapult
RUSSELL JACKSON
IT MAY read like a far-flung plotline from a science-fiction comic, but
Scots scientists have unveiled plans to develop a giant slingshot to
catapult material from the earth to the moon.
The
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/us/31divide.html
Digital Divide Closing as Blacks Turn to Internet
By MICHEL MARRIOTT
Published: March 31, 2006
African-Americans are steadily gaining access to and ease with the
Internet, signaling a remarkable closing of the digital divide that many
experts
It's available on dvd now. See:
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13516317,00.html
Boob Job Ban In Space
Wednesday March 29, 2006
Women with boob jobs may be banned from Virgin's space flights.
Bosses fear the implants may expand and burst due to cabin pressure,
according to The Sun.
More than 157 people have
http://www.slate.com/id/2138943/?nav=tap3
It's the Earth, Stupid
NASA's new budget blows it.
By Gregg Easterbrook
Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006
It's the time of year when the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration releases artist's conceptions of hotels on the moon or
grand
Believe it or not, SoaP has pedigree:
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Plot Summary for Fer-de-Lance (1974) (TV)
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has
secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape
storage and bite key
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12018911
U.S. plans moon base on path to Mars
Despite lack of fanfare, scientists work on technological hurdles
By Guy Gugliotta
The Washington Post
March 26, 2006
HOUSTON - For the first time since 1972, the United States is planning to
fly to the moon, but
Posted 3/27/2006
WARSAW (AP) - Stanislaw Lem, a popular science fiction writer whose novel
Solaris was filmed twice, died Monday in his native Poland, his secretary
said. He was 84.
Lem died in Krakow, Wojciech Zemek told The Associated Press. Zemek did
not give other details or the cause of
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Japanese comics go mobile
By Richard Taylor
Editor, BBC Click Online
From texting to surfing the internet and making video calls, the ways in
which mobile phones can be used seem to be ever expanding. In Japan,
another string has
Entertaining montage of old Isuzu Gemini commercials set to music.
Enjoy:
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