Mars Pheonix Mission: Meet The Arm
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Defective - Awsome Robot Animation
I really like what they’ve done here:
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Alien Spirituality
Image by alicepopkorn
Is spirituality a uniquely human attribute and experience? Do intelligent non-human beings exist and, if so, do such beings have religious beliefs or even souls?
At least one major world religion has indicated that its answer to such questions may well be no, yes, and yes, in that order. In a recent interview with Italian newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s chief astronomer, the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, said there is no conflict between believing in extraterrestrial intelligent life and believing in God.
“How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere?” Rev Funes asks, a point based on faith and logic, given the extraordinarily high number of planets with suns and atmospheres similar to those of earth.
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Three generations of Swashbots
Image from crabfu.com
I was always a big fan of robotics ever since the first Terminator ;). Go figure. So every time I find something cool like this I’m a bit happier. This time I’ve found Swashbot on crabfu.com. Three generations of cute little (and not so little) robots this guy calls “Swashbot”. You can check the rest of his videos on his Youtube account.
SwashBot 1
SwashBot 2
SwashBot 3
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Cultured meat
This is a cross-post from The biology in Science Fiction by Peggy Kolm.
The aristocrat of Dorm Ten was Herrera. After ten years with Chlorella he had worked his way up Đ topographically it was down Đ to Master Slicer. He worked in the great, cool vault underground, where Chicken Little grew and was cropped by him and other artisans. He swung a sort of two-handed sword that carved off great slabs of the tissue, leaving it to the lesser packers and trimmers and their faceless helpers to weigh it, shape it, freeze it, cook it, flavor it, package it, and ship it off to the area on quota for the day.
He had more than a production job. He was a safety valve. Chicken Little grew and grew, as she had been growing for decades. Since she had started as a lump of heart tissue, she didn’t know any better than to grow up against a foreign body and surround it. She didn’t know any better than to grow and fill her concrete vault and keep growing, compressing her cells and rupturing them. As long as she got nutrient, she grew. Herrera saw to it that she grew round and lump, that no tissue got old and tough before it was sliced, that one side was not neglected for the other.
~The Space Merchants, Frederik Pohl & CM Kornbluth, 1952
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Terminator Salvations Concept Art
Finally, some news for Terminator 4 (Ok, Terminator Salvations: The End Begins would be the correct term but hell, it’s just to long to call it that). It seams they started with principal photography for T4. This is the first image released to public:
I really like the greenish atmosphere and the flayer is exactly like in the first and the second movie. Hope to see some more and better done stuff in the days to come…Read more about it on T4’s official blog.
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New Jocker Poster In High Res
This new Jocker poster is quite cool, no? :). If you click on the picture, you can see it in high resolution. Can’t wait for the movie to come. I’m getting tired of this trailer sh*t…
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New Hancock Trailer
I must admit that this movie seams better every time I see a new trailer :). My favorite part is when he kicks that fat kid in the sky for calling him something…;)
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All About Biotech Research
Photo by Dan Strange
One of my friends, a former community college student at the school at the same time I was working there, has decided to go into biotech research. She is technologically savvy and at the same time is fascinated with and good at working with the environment, and hopes to make some important contributions to our area (Northern California). So what does it mean to do biotech research? What does it take to get into the field of biotechnology? And how much dough can you make?
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Dollhouse Trailer
I have a big interest in this series…doesn’t look too bad too…
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