The Dumbbell Nebula Gets Me Pumped For The Cosmos. Get It?!?!
Check out the Dumbbell Nebula, and peer into a look at what shall become of our Sun. Discovered through Science! and uh, Intrepitude! That’s a word. It’s a word.
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Terra Nova: A Hodgepodge of Sci-Fi Clichés.
Unless you live on the Moon or if you have a DVR you’ve heard of Terra Nova. You know what, scratch that, I think Fox put a few ads on the Moon, in caves, and even under rocks. You could smell the desperation. They wanted it to succeed.
The premise is a cool idea, if just a little bit lifted from Sliders (make sure to pronounce in a hushed whisper). There is a dimensional portal that goes from the year 2148 to 65 million BC. Instantly your geek bullshit detector should around Roland Emerich levels. The question is, if they go into the past, won’t they change the future? It’s the classic Grandpa Paradox. If you leap into the past to kill your grandfather before your father is born, how can you be born to go into the past to kill your own grandfather? They handle this with one line of forced dialogue. It appears that they are not going directly into the past; they are going into the past of an alternate dimension. Like I said, cheesy fix. They might as well have said a wizard did it.
Monday Morning Commute: ex-hoes’ skeletons
Hulloh there, folks!
How was your Christmas? How is your Chanukah? Pumped for Kwanzaa? Find someone to smooch on New Year’s Eve? No matter how you get down, chances’re that you’re in midst of celebration. And hell, what’s not to celebrate? We just passed the winter solstice, which means that the days of darkness are going to be coming to an end. While winter is sure to bludgeon us with icy blows, we can rest assured knowing that more and more sunlight will be headed our way.
Unless, of course, you’re a dweller of of the Southern Hemisphere — if that’s the case, you’re still rocking barbeques at the beach. But then again, you’re probably getting into fistfights with joeys and hunting down the dingos that stole your babies. Damn Aussies.
Anyways, welcome to the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE! This is the nerd-friendly show-and-tell jump-off! I’m going to sift through the entertainment debris that’ll be occupying my time in the following week, giving you the highlights along the way. After you check out `em out, it’s your duty to hit up the comments section and share your own recreational wreckage.
OL-5, standing by!
Kinect Weighs Astronauts In Space Just By Looking At Them. HAL Lives.
Astronauts can lose a lot of mass due to muscles atrophying and shit in space. What a conundrum! How do take measurements of their bodies to ensure they stay fit? Why, activate HAL!…or the Kinect. It will scan them. Track them. Play chess with them.
Screenwriter For New ‘Blade Runner’ Announced Soon According To Producer.
Hot off the tits of the Prometheus trailer comes some more Ridley Scott dancing in the glory days news. New Blade Runner flick be getting a screenwriter announced soon.
‘The Legend of Zelda’ Gets Official Timeline. Two People Who Care Are Stoked.
I’ve never tried to make much of the Legend of Zelda timeline. Just rolled with it. Where everything fits in? Who gives a fuck. There’s the Temples of Fire, Water, Might, Youthful Enthusiasm and Shadow Lords every game, and a lass who needs saving. That’s always been enough. For people who demand more!, who demand coherency!, you can now relax. The timeline hast been revealed.
Small Planets Dived Into Their Sun, And Survived. Boss Mode!
Often I think of only Kal-El being able to dive into Sol and emerge victorious. Apparently that shit ain’t true. Tiny charred-as-Vader’s-dome-piece planets have done the exactly same thing. Flex on, Planets. You deserve it.
Video: World Masturbating Champ Masanobu Sato’s Own Mini Doc.
Documentaries! A powerful format of thinly veiled fiction constructed to invigiorate the mind! To alert people to beauties and problems across the world! To…to…to capture a behind the scenes look at Masanobu Sato, the world’s masturbation champion. Pretty safe for work video after the jump.
Marvel Senior VP Smack Talks DC’s “Returnability Ponzi Scheme”. It’s On!
DC is doing itself something of a swag-heavy dance these days, trumping their magnificent sales. I’ll admit, I was sampling the cheddar popcorn they were selling. Not smackin’ lips on their claims? Marvel senior VP Tom Brevoort. A man who launched an impressive volley of words.
