Category: Reference
Before Battlestar
Much as I love both incarnations of Doctor Who, there’s one show I will always like better, and that’s Blake’s 7.
Moral ambiguity, a corrupt galactic Federation, terrorists-as-heroes, story and character arcs. Unfortunately, a lot of those episodes were visually comparable to the Doctor Who episodes of the time. Plus, some episodes were stinkers, too. If someone new to the show caught the wrong episode, he’d probably swear it off for life.
Luckily, the folks at io9 have put together How To Get Into Rebel Space Opera Blake's 7
No Nanobots Required
I got a lot more where these came from. I got weeks of catching up to do.
Look, Look, Look!
Here’s a blast from the past — the Complete Elfquest Online project.
Exterminate!
Who Needs People, Anyway?
I never got around to seeing Lars and the Real Girl when it was out. I’ll have to catch the DVD. I heard whisperings about this documentary, shot in the UK, called Guys and Dolls. Apparently, these folks are the real deal…
You’d think my first inclination would be to laugh my ass off, and that my second would be to pity some of these folks. Somehow, I managed to suspend all of that, at least through the first half of the video.
Attack of the Rainmen
Hm, I think I’ve got the makings of a story, here…
3,003rd Rock from the Sun?
A Second Earth in Our Solar System (?)
NASA’s Alan Stern said these planets are so far away from the sun that we haven t seen them yet:
Our old view, that the Solar System had nine planets will be supplanted by a view that there are hundreds if not thousands of planets in our Solar System. It could be that there are objects of Earth-mass in the Oort cloud a band of debris surrounding our planetary system but they would be frozen at these distances. They would look like a frozen Earth.
So all we need to do is haul one of those babies into our orbit, defrost it, and start populating. Earth 2, here I come!