Alien Spirituality
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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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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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Dollhouse Trailer
I have a big interest in this series…doesn’t look too bad too…
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Flash News for 2008-05-04
Photo by The Wandering Angel
With shuttle, station clear, Pentagon destroys wayward spy satellite
Jurassic Park paleontologist Jack Horner still gets angry letters from kids
Galaxy Quest gets a comic book, ignites hopes for sequel
Hey! What’s your beef with young adult SF/F?
SF/F writers who blog (SF Signal)
The cutest sci-fi sidekicks and why they fail
What can movies teach us about space travel?
R2-D2 swiss army DVD projector
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15 science fiction geek pickup lines
Photo by ckirkman
I found this great list of geeky pickup lines on TopFive.com. Some of them are so funny that I’m tempted to use them myself. You know, to break the ice, make her almost choke of laughter or something. 
15. “Someone must have shot you with a phaser set on ’stunning.’”
14. “I can’t help it — my eyes are trapped in the gravitational field of your breasts!!”
13. “Nice Asimov.”
12. “Not only can I beam you aboard, I can beam you a woody.”
11. “W-w-w-w-w-wo-would y-y-y-y-you g-g-g-g-go o-o-out w-w-w-w… ah, screw it.”
10. “Is that Shai-Hulud, the life-giving spice-producing god-worm in your pocket, or are you just glad tosee me?”
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Resources page added
Today, Scifirama has a new subpage added to the menu above - Resources page. What started out as a simple post where I wanted to share my bookmarks that I gathered over the years, ended up as one of the most viewed and most commented posts I’ve made. So I made a decision to make it into u page that you can use as a starting point. If you want your site to be added just add a comment with your link or e-mail me.
Also, I added 20 new sites to the list:
- www.strangehorizons.com
- scifi-movies.com - Movies List
- GateWorld | Your Complete Guide to Stargate!
- sqt-fantasy-sci-fi-girl.blogspot.com
- www.scifispace.com
- www.scifisource.com
- www.scifimatter.com
- www.sci-fi-cafe.com
- ofsciencefiction.blogspot.com
- fanmoviereviews.com
- cooltopten-fantasybattles.blogspot.com
- cool-sci-fi.blogspot.com
- www.efavata.com/CBM
- cassandrasworldofsci-fi.blogspot.com
- www.baen.com
- variety-sf.blogspot.com
- arthur-clarke-fansite.blogspot.com
- www.sfx.co.uk
- www.sfreviews.com
- www.thefantasyreview.com
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Scifirama changes its look…again
I apologize for constant changing of Scifirama’s looks but it was necessary due to lacks of options in the last theme I used here. I do hope that this is a final look so that theme changes can stop confusing my readers 
Thank you for understanding…
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Underwater Nuke explosion
Nuke explosions are one of those things that you admire and respect in the same time. It’s frightening as much it is beautiful…This is a nuclear weapon detonated underwater to test effects on ships, sonicbomb.com
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RIP - Charlton Heston
Image from Wikipedia
Charlton Heston, who won best actor Oscar for his performance in Ben Hur died on Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills, aged 84. In our, science fiction, niche he was known for his role in Planet of the apes, one of the best sci-fi movies of all time.
From Wikipedia - Heston was known for playing heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur. Early in his career, he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to publicly speak out against racism and was active in the civil rights movement. During the latter part of his movie career, he starred in films such as The Omega Man and Soylent Green, which have a strong environmental message. He was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
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Newbie’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy and Genre Conventions
Have you ever been on a sci-fi (or fantasy, horror - genre) convention? I have, but just a couple of times. Here in Croatia conventions are not that great and they serve as a platform for drinking and LARP games, which is all right, if that’s just a part of the program - not all of it. My frustrations aside, I do think many people have wrong ideas about conventions and what they’re supposed to look like.
June Williams from Buzzy Multimedia Publishing wrote an excellent article about conventions that a lot of organizers should read. She covered Litterary conventions, media conventions, gaming conventions, horror conventions, comic conventions, etc.
“June Williams has worked the convention circuit as a professional and been to scores of conventions as a fan over a period of more than 25 years.” - She knows what she’s saying!!!
Read the article here.
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