Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson, has found Superman’s home star system of Krypton! Apparently, the star is a red dwarf designated LHS 2520 in the constellation Corvus, some 27.1 light years from Earth. This was, of course, done for DC Comics, and Dr. Tyson himself can be...
Holy mother of Vader, Disney has just acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion! Apparently, Disney is also going to make a 7th film for release in 2015, with more films to follow every 2 to 3 years. Here’s a video interview: I guess we’ll just wait and see where this is...
Still not sure who to vote for? Perhaps director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and directory of Marvel’s Avengers, can offer you some sagely advice.
The European Southern Observatory has just announce the discovery of a planet in the Alpha Centauri system! Our nearest neighboring star system, only 4.3 light years away, makes this discovery unbelievably exciting. The planet is roughly the same size and mass as Earth, but orbits very close to its host...
I normally shy away from posting on political topics, but this one is just too good to pass up. Samuel L. Jackson himself has a few choice words about this coming election — and be warned, he does use that one word for which he is most famous.
The new trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now out! Just watch it:
Is warp drive possible? Dr. Harold White, Advanced Propulsion Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate, thinks that it might be — and he’s not alone. The first plausible concept for a real warp drive was suggested in 1994 by physicist Miguel Alcubierre, for which the concept is also known as...
Now here is a good way to spend the next hour and a half — it’s the complete Hobbit production video blog, episodes 1 to 8. Check it out!
As I previously posted, we’ve just returned from Dragon*Con 2012, and it was great! Most of my pictures turned out to be from the parade (since I skipped out on the costume contest), and while I have far more pictures than I can possibly post, I thought I would just...
Well, we just returned from Dragon*Con 2012, and it was great! Dragon*Con is one of North America’s biggest sci-fi/fantasy conventions, and I think there were somewhere around 45,000 people there this year (though I swear it felt more like 45,008). I can’t even begin to name the guests who attend,...
