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Utah’s Mystery Monolith Appeared Around 2016 Near Site of Old Movie and TV Locations
Was it aliens or artists? Yesterday, the internet was enthralled by the discovery of an unexplained metallic monolith in the middle of nowhere by officers for Utah’s Department of Public Safety. Roughly 24 hours later, we have a lot more answers, all thanks to amateur sleuths online. And given the area’s long history with Hollywood,…
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How Adam Savage Made An Amazingly Lifelike But Equally Creepy Replica Of 2001’s Starchild Baby
Video: The final scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, featuring a baby floating in space, still leave many people scratching their heads. But even if Adam Savage didn’t fully understand what Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke meant with the reveal, he knew he had to recreate the character for his personal prop collection. The…
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One Great Groot, And One Creepy One, In The Best Toys We’ve Seen This Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, our roundup of the most interesting toys we’ve seen this week. It’s a Guardians of the Galaxy blowout as we have life-sized Groots, creepy plush Groots and a fancy cassette player. But wait, there’s more — including a very swanky David Bowie figure and a very large Iron Man. Check…
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19 Times Someone Gets Thrown Into Space, From Worst To Best
We all know people don’t explode when exposed to space without protection. But science fiction has taken some liberties with vacuum exposure over the years. Here are 19 scenes of people being exposed to space, ranked from the least realistic to the most.