Tag: sci-fi
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Five Years After an EMP Strike: Expert Explores What Society Might Look Like
Black Mountain, NC, June , 2023 —William R. Forstchen, Ph.D., prays that he is remembered 30 years from now as a crank. Widely considered one of the foremost experts on electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks, Dr. Forstchen wants more than anything to be wrong when he says an attack is imminent. Dr. Forstchen is also a…
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Making Life Easy With Easier Parking
With driverless cars already on the streets, will there be similar AI breakthroughs in the future of parking? In the ’60s, The Jetsons, a cartoon about a family living in the future, featured a flying car that folded down into a briefcase when not in use. It is unlikely that we will ever see that solution…
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The Importance Of Fog In Film
Weather has been used for dramatic effect since fiction began, so much so that the term ‘pathetic fallacy’ is probably one of the main things you remember from your English Literature classes. But how does this apply to Hollywood cinema and film? Hands down, the most dramatic of all meteorological phenomenon is fog. It can…
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Fan Art Boosted With Ready To Hang Quality Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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Fans Of 1960s TV Star Trek Should Be Aware of Star Trek Continues
When the next episode of STAR TREK CONTINUES is revealed, science fiction fans will see a familiar face in a guest star role. The new episode, titled Still Treads the Shadow, features guest star Rekha Sharma, perhaps best known to science fiction fans for her role in more than 30 episodes of Battlestar Galactica. …
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Celebrate Blade Runner 2049 Release With First Film’s Sketchbook
We’ve seen a lot of sequels and reboots over the years and the buildup to some of those (for example, a certain Sci-Fi movie series set in a galaxy far, far away) have been justifiably a social phenomena even if they disappointed fans of the original movies. But what to make of Blade Runner? Originally released in 1982 this…
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Real–life Detroit set to receive ten-foot ‘pop culture’ Robocop statue
In the 1987 the Dutch auteur film maker Paul Verhoeven created a movie unlike any other. He called it Robocop and I’m old enough to remember watching this dark comedy sci-fi masterpiece when it was brand spanking new. …
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Revamped auto e-testing in Ontario is “ineffective money grab”
It’s time to scrap Ontario’s Drive Clean program and the latest reboot of the decade old Drive Clean program should get the boot altogether. I make this claim following the Wynne government’s latest set of changes introducing…