Apollo 18 is the latest Hollywood movie to capture an outer space excursion to the moon. But unlike a film such as Apollo 13, which retells a true story in melodramatic fashion, Apollo 18 goes the fictional route and attempts to unravel the mystery behind an alien conspiracy.
In a nice discovery for Australian researchers at the University of Queensland and UNSW School of Physics, the team have created a plastic film that can conduct electricity in the same way metals conduct electricity across an electrical wire.
Let me share something special with you. This is Robot, a Bollywood action flick. It’s like Terminator, The Matrix and Transformers combined, but better. Or, as Jesus summarised, “an orgy of absurdity that not even Michael Bay can match”. (Warning: SPOILERS!)
My favourite thing about sci-fi stories are the strange, otherwordly settings in which they take place, whether they’re on distant alien planets or Earth in some strange future. But you can find some incredible, surreal landscapes right here, right now:
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I cannot overstate the significance of this news. French artist Nils Guadagnin has done the semi-possible: He’s recreated the hoverboard from Back to the Future II. And it totally works… so long as no one stands on it.
All the life-sapping elements dreamed up by TV shows, movies, authors and game studios are here – including Kryptonite, Element X and Vibranium. Classified by media, energy potential and origin, naturally. [RussellWalks via Urlesque via Neatorama via Kotaku]
Time Lords walk among us. Two per cent of readers may be surprised to discover that they are members of an elite group with the power to perceive the geography of time.
