Waves of the Cosmos
May 11th @ 8:54PM
Albert Einstein, via his theories of relativity, predicted a number of very astonishing things. The bending of light due to large gravitational bodies such as stars was quite easily proven in 1919 by Sir Arthur Eddignton. It predicted/explained certain characteristics of Mercury’s orbit that had previously been observed. Time dilation due to not only speed [...]
The Not So Infallible Iron Man (2)
May 7th @ 2:05PM
As far as comic book movies go, the Iron Man series is by far the best Hollywood has done. Some of you might cry foul pointing at the new Batman movies, but Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are just too high cinema to put them in the same realm. It’s more that Christopher Nolan [...]
One Small Step for a Man, One Really Long Fall for Mankind
May 4th @ 10:36AM
Jumping from high altitudes usually isn’t anything to talk about. Sky divers jump out of airplanes on a daily basis, base jumpers dive from cliff sides regularly. Extremists occasionally even hurdle themselves from the worlds tallest buildings. Felix Baumgartner has done all three, setting various records and accomplishing amazing feats. Back in July of 2003, [...]
“First there was darkness…”
Apr 30th @ 6:00AM
…then came the strangers. From director Alex Proyas, who has brought us some very good sci-fi (The Crow, I, Robot and Knowing), comes this gloomy tale about aliens searching for the human soul and a man who shows them what it is. Dark City came out the year prior to The Matrix release and from [...]
The Sun As You’ve Never Seen It
Apr 27th @ 6:00AM
After My Sci-Fi moved to its new host, the e-mail client had never been set up. If anyone tried sending anything, sorry for the bounce back. E-mailing me at jonulf@myscifi.org will now work. Sorry for any inconvenience. Over three months ago NASAs Solar Dynamic Observatory was launched into space to little fanfare. Equipped with the Extreme [...]
The Truly “Forbidden Planet”
Apr 23rd @ 6:00AM
This is perhaps one of the better science fiction movies ever made, despite it being released in 1956, with now campy special effects, cheesy character development and predictable plot. Predictability mainly comes from the general structure of the story having been used in all sorts of other movies. In fact, Forbidden Planet is based loosely on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. [...]
My Sci-Fi: More Changes and a Recommitment
Apr 20th @ 6:00AM
My Sci-Fi started out as a forum to speak about science fiction movies, but in a few short months morphed into a sort of catch-all for the genre and now includes technologies that will be fueling futures we could only dream about a decade ago. So for almost two months straight there was something new [...]
The Automotive Revolution Has Begun
Apr 16th @ 6:01AM
The time is soon arriving that the oil barons have been dreading and conspiring against for years. That is, when electric vehicles (EVs) are no longer a pipe dream of burnt out hippies, but rather a fully viable consumer product. A while back we talked about Better Place, a company helping to visualize and build [...]
