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Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon Changed Color from Blue To Orange

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No big whup. Just Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon. It’s just changed its color, explicably, from blue to orange. No big whup, it’s just big enough to swallow our planet. And we don’t know why it changed color.

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NASA Images Suggest the ExoMars Lander Exploded During Landing

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Bummer! Big bummer for the European Space Agency. Images provided by NASA suggest that the ExoMars lander exploded as it attempted to land on the Red Planet.

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Peter Jackson and his ‘LOTR’ team are adapting ‘Mortal Engines’

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Peter Jackson and the writing team behind Lord of the Rings are adapting Mortal Engines for the big screen. Jackson will be writing the script with Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens, and Christian Rivers will be directing.

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Watch: 40 Stunning Minutes of ‘Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is shaping up to be a fucking stunning, gorgeous spectacle. I thought that before this 40 minutes of gameplay, and I doubly think it now.

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‘Fast & Furious’ Director Justin Lin is Rebooting ‘Knight Rider’

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Justin Lee is typically known as the genius auteur responsible for the resurrection of the Fast & Furious franchise. Now he’ll also be known as the auteur responsible for the resurrection of Knight Rider.

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‘Dishonored 2’ Live-Action Trailer: You Never Thought I Would Fight Back

Monday Morning Commute: You Are Always Home

Monday Morning Commute: You Are Always Home

Monday Night, another Monday Night. Less hectic than most, more hectic than some. But I’m here, and so I type, and so as I type the sands of time drain. Both towards the moment of imminent slumber, and the moment of eternal slumber, the eradication of order on a cellular level for one Ian Omega. What’s weird? On this autumnal night, less hectic than most, more hectic than some? What’s weird is that I fear the former more than the latter. The former brings the siren screech of an alarm clock, the latter brings at worst Nada and at best Something Else.

All of this is neither here nor there, though, neither here nor there.

For this right here is Monday Morning Commute.

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The X-Men Comics Line-Up Is Relaunching Next Year!

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I have largely forgotten about the X-Men comics in recent years. There are myriad reasons: my own personal proclivity for reading non-Big Two comics, my own confusion about the current mythos, and them just being…okay? But Marvel seems to be angling to draw people like me back next year, with a serious, serious line-up relaunch.

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George Lucas did not contribute to the ‘Indiana Jones 5’ story

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According to the screenwriter of Indy 5, George Lucas did not contribute to the script or story. This should assuage some of the fears regarding the movie, yes?

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Canceled ‘Rayman’ Game For SNES Found By Its Creator after 25 Years

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The creator of Rayman has unearthed a previously-thought-lost copy of the character’s canceled SNES debut. One for the archives, folks.

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