Archives / April 2012

Space

Owning an Asteroid: Who’s Got Dibs?

Planetary Resources wants to mine asteroids. Essentially, they’re saying if we can reach it, we own it. However, this may run counter to the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty.

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Top 5

Top 5 Futuristic Music Videos by Duran Duran

Best remembered as a pop juggernaut in the 80′s, Duran Duran create possible futures — from modern to post-apocalyptic. Here’s some of their most memorable moments.

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Thoughts

Why Star Trek (2009) is a Terrible Film

J.J. Abrams admits he was never a fan of Star Trek. So, instead, for the 2009 reboot, he cobbled together his own little Star Wars ripoff.

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Sci-Fi

Philip K. Dick in 1981: “My Life is Completed by Blade Runner”

After failed attempts to translate his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to the big screen, Philip K. Dick was ecstatic to have the story helmed by director Ridley Scott.

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Space

Planetary Resources: Will They Succeed?

Yesterday, Planetary Resources announced its plans to begin mining asteroids. A single 500-meter asteroid contains the equivalent of all the Platinum Group Metals mined in history.

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Interviews

FutureDude Visits the Home of Nichelle Nichols, Part 1

As a huge fan of the original Star Trek series, I’m happy to share this interview with Ms. Nichols about her career, Gene Roddenberry, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Space

NASA Asks Public: Design our Next Mars Mission

After huge budget cuts, NASA is starting from scratch on their Mars program. The US space agency is looking to the general public, via the Twitter-verse, for design inspiration.

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Top 5

Top 5 Futuristic Film Designs

These films allow you to completely suspend disbelief, while creating their own singular vision of a futuristic world. I have yet to see other film worlds realized as well as these five.

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Reviews

John Carter: Read the Book Instead

As my friends and I used to joke, Martian women wear no clothes. Thus Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Chronicles of Mars series became the stuff of pre-adolescent boys dreams.

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Sci-Fi

David 8: Big Things have Small Beginnings

The intriguing viral campaign for Prometheus continues. Yesterday saw the release of “Happy Birthday David” — a new video which allows the film’s android to introduce himself.

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Tech

Food Printers: Building a Star Trek Replicator?

What if an appliance could provide exactly the type of food you needed? No mess, no waste. That’s the promise of food printers — a new promising replicator-like vision of tomorrow.

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Interviews

FutureDude Visits Seth Shostak at the SETI Institute, Part 2

Scientists get a bad rap for being remote and boring. Check out my discussion with Seth to see how personal, insightful, and funny one scientist can really be.

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