Size Comparison Of Famous Sci-fi Spaceships Everyone knows the ongoing question, does size matter? If you think this is going to be about “that” topic, I am afraid you are checking out the wrong post. This is about something entirely different, but as usual, there is an underlying point here. We have all seen the movies (more or less) where grand spaceships fly through space, and we continuously marvel over their intricate design and structures. Star Wars and Star Trek sure do have their share of them, and the list will get long if I sit here and name pretty much every single science fiction series or movies out there and the ships therein. It is always hard to comprehend the size of spaceships in movies. The result is a series of really detailed and quite interesting size comparisons that I am sure any science fiction fan will find ultimately useful.
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity The Mathematics of Lego | Wired Science The world of toys and games is not immune to mathematics. From the Rubik’s Cube to Monopoly, fun pastimes can be quantified. And the same is true of Legos. Lego blocks, the building toys that are truly amazing and that I have never quite grown out of, are amenable to math. To see that, we have to begin thinking about how we combine things together. In the wonderfully titled paper Scaling of Differentiation in Networks: Nervous Systems, Organisms, Ant Colonies, Ecosystems, Businesses, Universities, Cities, Electronic Circuits, and Legos, Mark Changizi and his colleagues set out to understand this concept. And this includes, of course, Lego bricks. They found that the number of piece types to total number of pieces could be fit nicely to a power law. This curve demonstrates that as the number of pieces in a set grows, so do the number of piece types. Top image:enerva/Flickr/CC-licensed
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012 Does Donnie Darko Hold Up? On its tenth anniversary, we reassess the cult phenomenon. by Rick Paulas and Peter Malamud Smith Donnie Darko Does Not Hold Up By Rick Paulas When Donnie Darko first came out ten years ago, it earned a scant half-a-million dollars, covering about one-ninth of its budget. 1. With his puffed-out frowny face, slumped shoulders, and sweatshirt hood pulled halfway over his head, Donnie Darko's brooding, mad-at-the-world type is so familiar, you could throw a protractor down a high-school hallway and hit a dozen of these gloomy Eeyores. 2. Darko feels like a debut film, in that it's clearly the work of someone taking a pile of disconnected ideas he's had over the years (liquid darts shooting from people's chests, an old lady whose life consists of checking her mail, a creepy rabbit costume, a mystery jet engine falling from the sky) and shoehorning them into a single story; who knows when or if they'll get another shot at a movie? 3. 4. 5. Which is all well and good. 6.
Star Wars: Every Possible Fact About The Death To continue my journey through the world of Star Wars and the search for all the cool and geeky gadgets, I’ve finally come to the awesomeness of the Death Star, the empire’s destructive weapon and ultimate fear factor tool. We saw the Death Star in the first movies, but we’ve never really gotten a closer look at what it inhabits and what it is capable of. Maybe that’s the reason why we marvel over it so much. It’s a mystical mystery that sort of never wears off. An awesome infographic created by Geeks Are Sexy and (of course) Carinsurance.org is the ultimate information sheet about the Death Star, and it’s unbelievable coolness. The way we usually get information about movies is through text compiled to satisfy the fans of the movie. Author: Richard Darell Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek.
Brave New Worldview – 30 Science Fiction Films of the 21st Century - Row Three A decade into the 21st Century and we have arrived at the future. The promise of Tomorrow. But instead we have looming energy crises, endless middle east conflict and more disappointing, we have no flying cars, Heck, for all the bright and clean future promised in 2001: A Space Odyssey, none of the real companies used as brands in the film even exist anymore. Even moving from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s, nobody makes DeLoreans (although they occasionally sell on Ebay), but cloning and tablet computing (as promised by Star Trek: The Next Generation) have more or less come to pass in this century. Below are over two dozen science fiction pictures that are worth your time. In the interest of talking about the films, it should be noted that *SPOILERS* are sprinkled through out the list. Code 46 Welcome to a world with borders, very difficult to permeate borders. Children of Men How would social mores change in a world without hope? The Fountain 28 Weeks Later The Host Paprika Pontypool
Latte Art Turns To Darth Vader, Batman & More I am a huge Latte drinker when I get around to it. I have this fully tricked out machine at home, which I have had for several years, and when the mood strikes me, it’s my best friend for several days. I don’t like coffee in general, but when it comes to latte, I can drink gallons of it. I think the high concentration of milk in it is the driving force behind my cravings. Flickr user Chrissy May found one of the most skillful latte artists I have ever seen doing this thing called latte art. My only remaining question is, how the heck do you get started with this?
100 Best (Free) Science Documentaries Online No matter how much you know, there is always something new to learn about science. While your college courses may cover the basics, you can get a more in-depth look at a wide variety of topics from Internet resources such as these great documentaries. These selections will help you explore everything from the inner reaches of the human mind to the outer areas of our universe and just about everything else in between. Better yet, they’re all free to watch online so you can learn more without spending a dime. Health and Medicine These documentaries cover topics like health care, diseases, nutrition, nursing, and more so you can get great insights into health and medicine. Super Size Me: In this movie, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock attempts to subsist on only a diet of McDonald’s for a full month. Drugs Learn how drugs impact the brain and the variety of legal restrictions imposed upon them from these documentaries. Genetics Evolution and Biological History Physics The Quantum Revolution: Dr. Geology
How Lightsabers Work" We’ve all been there before. It’s 3 p.m. at the office, and you’re positively famished. The snack machine is empty, and the only piece of food in sight is a bagel hard enough to bust windshields. You’ve snapped three plastic butter knives trying to slice the thing in half, and there’s no way it will fit in the toaster whole. Then you remember the office lightsaber. It's hard to imagine life without lightsabers. These fabulous plasma weapons make daily life possible, yet it's easy to take the technology for granted. So gather round, Padawans, and watch as we void the warranty on our own office lightsaber and reveal the gadgetry inside.
25 Spectacular Movies You (Probably) Haven’t Seen Midnight in Paris Woody Allen’s latest places starving writer Owen Wilson in Paris with his fiancée, Rachel McAdams. Searching for inspiration for his incomplete novel, Owen begins taking strolls around the city at night where he discovers an unexpected group of people. I wish I could be more specific, but it would ruin the surprise. Let the Right One In The best vampire movie ever made in my opinion. Watch Let the Right One In for FREE on Amazon Instant Video The Man From Earth Holy &#%@ this film’s plot is fascinating! Garden State This is my absolute favorite film. Waking Life It’s impossible for you to grasp Waking Life without actually watching it, but I’ll do my best to explain it. Watch Waking Life for FREE on Amazon Instant Video Closer This film is a rather dark, yet comedic story about the twisted relationships between Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphendre et le Papillon) Sin Nombre Snatch Spirited Away The Descent Once
When Star Wars droids suffer from low self-esteem No, they don't. (But outside of Artoo, I'm not convinced that they are capable of independent thought—sure, they can follow a flowchart the programmers gave them, but that's hardly "independent"...) One of the more intriguing lines in the prequels was Obi-Wan's line "Well, if droids could think, there'd be none of us here" in Attack of the Clones. So clearly droids aren't seen as sentient, per se, although they might exhibit signs of autonomy and emotion. Consciousness would be an emergent phenomenon, not intended by the designers or manufacturers. If you really wanted to strip away all the wonder and magic, you could say that the Star Wars universe was set in a post-singularity galaxy, hence all the magical powers and way faster-than-light technology (midichlorians = nano, obviously). I've always had a background suspicion that the surge R2 got while first working on Amidala's ship maybe upgraded his emotional/mental state, similar to Johnny Five from Short Circuit.