2001 a space odyssey
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How Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories Spread Before The Internet
Conspiracy theories about the Moon landing have been around for years. Decades, in fact. And while it’s easier than ever to spread false stories thanks to the internet, the belief that humans never landed on the Moon is way older than the web.
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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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The Original Murderous Digital Assistant Is Now A Bluetooth Speaker
HAL 9000 is the original suspicious digital assistant. Before we invited Alexa, Google and Siri into our lives to surveil our every action there was 2001: Space Odyssey’s HAL, an AI so murderous it’s a wonder anyone saw its actions and thought, “You know, not all of this is bad.” But despite the fact that…
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The Best Sci-Fi Movies To Watch When You’re Seriously Stoned
Marijuana can make a bad movie good and a good movie great. But it’s got to be the right movie, one with ideas you can explore more deeply, or absurdity you can appreciate more naturally. The balance is delicate, just like picking the right kind of weed. As yesterday was 4/20, we’ve created a list…