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A Guide To Bad Space Science In Movies

Sorry to ruin your enjoyment of Mission to Mars—or, fine, Aliens and Star Wars—but it joins a host of sci-fi movies that just can’t quite get their space science right. Here are the most common offenses and offenders.


I’ll Take My Aliens In Tron-O-Vision

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That scene in Aliens where Ripley takes on the big baddie with a power loader? You can’t beat it! Unless, of course, you put it in the world of Tron. That’s when you start re-examining everything you knew about awesome.


Don’t Go To War With This Aliens Replica M41A Pulse Rifle

Movie prop replicas are a luxury item for many aficionados, sure, but even so for $US900 an Aliens replica pulse rifle better have a working ammo counter, spring loaded triggers and a strap so we can recreate the fateful finale!


Area 51 Receives Poor Reviews From Google Users

The mysterious Area 51 remains a place many people would love to visit. But it ain’t that great! According to humorous Google Maps reviews, one user’s spaceship has been towed and another user got arrested by the army.


After 50 Years, Galactic ET Listening Post SETI Hits Redial With "Project Dorothy"

The astronomers, sceptics and believers who use SETI to scan the stars for extraterrestrial intelligences are retraining their sights on stars previously scanned by telescopes for signs of life 50 years ago. Second time’s the charm?


Sigourney Weaver Talks Aliens With Gizmodo Australia

 

She’s an actor’s actor, and she’s starred in some of the greatest science fiction films of all time. With the launch of the Alien Anthology boxed set of films on Blu-ray (don’t forget you can win it now right here) we sat down with Sigourney Weaver to talk about her experience working on the Alien series. From the ’70s to the ’90s, the technology of making films, particularly science fiction, changed dramatically.


The Alien Blu-Ray Egg Is The Scariest Box Set Ever

We knew that Fox was releasing the Alien Anthology on Blu-ray, but did you know that it will be coming in a limited edition egg box set as well? It’s the perfect gift to scare your children to sleep all night, every night!


Manhattan Balloon UFOs Spotted Over El Paso

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UFOs Neutered Nukes, Officers Claim

A group of retired US Air Force officers say they’ve encountered UFOs and surmise that the space creatures are trying to tell an obstinate human race to abandon its nuclear weapons. That’s right: Earth is being monitored by intergalactic hippies.


Webcomic Shatters Fermi Paradox

There’s a very good reason we haven’t heard a peep from an alien civilization, and probably never will. I think it has something to do with lewd remarks made to a nuclear superpower. Or something. [SMBC - Thanks, Eric]


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