Goddammit season 2 of Foundations is great. I'm annoyed at the end of every episode because it's the end of the episode. Only one more to go, and the suspense is killing me. Please don't let it be another two years until the continuation!
Once again rises #MONSTERDON, the weekly monster movie watchalong! At 9pm eastern we'll be watching and commenting on a cheesy monster movie! If this sounds bad to you, set up a hashtag filter!
This week is BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1960), a movie about a guy who gets transported into the far flung future of 2024, where mutants rule the wastelands!
I've loved Futurama for so long- I was actually watching on March 28th, 1999 when the pilot episode aired on FOX after the Simpsons, and I've loved it ever since. And Hulu just revived it for a couple more seasons!
I've run a blog on cartoons (https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com) for 14 years this year, but I realized I've never written up anything on my favorite Futurama episodes, despite loving the show so much, or even had a standalone Futurama-only post on there! I figured I'd change that this year.
I've been rewatching my favorite episodes this week and simultaneously working on a 'top 10 Futurama episodes' post. My top 5 were easy enough to figure out, and then I narrowed a list of 10 more episodes down to just 5 more. Wasn't too tough. Now, to do little write-ups on each, why I love them so much, why they're so rewatchable, etc.
If a human is exposed to raw space vacuum, they will not freeze any time soon. Vacuum is an excellent insulator, because there is no matter that can transport away your heat (convection), like in an atmosphere or liquid. Managing heat is actually a problem in space, especially with sunlight.
Rapid evaporation may cause cooling in certain parts of the body though.
Latest episode of Star Trek: SNW got this wrong, so has a lot of other shows, movies and books in the past.
Looking to start new series for the coming year (second poll). Can you help me out #Bookstodon? Because you can only have for poll topics on Mastodon, this is the second poll asking for recommendations. I'll take the top two from both polls and do a final four poll. Go to the comments for a link to the first poll.
I'm currently rewatching Fringe, which is a great show. I believe it's also the first SciFi show my sister is actually willing to watch.
Now, the science of it is obviously bonkers, but it still bothers me when they use terms completely wrong. Like when they cite the Pauli Exclusion Principle as to why two objects from different universes cannot exist in the same place. The principle is about the quantum state of fermions, like an electron, not whole macroscopic objects.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is an hour until #Monsterdon! Your weekly viewing party in which denizens of this humble portal gather to mock -- uh, APPRECIATE old monster movies :D
Why do sci-fi artists design aerodynamic spaceships like mother ships that are never going to land? Aerodynamics really doesn't matter a whole lot in space.
Also, why would these ships need a discernable top and bottom? There is no real up or down for most of your interstellar travel.
I have a naming convention for my Linux computers. Laptops and desktops are named after TV characters I like, and my servers are named after Greek goddesses.
My new desktop PC, where I'm posting this from, has been named Ahsoka. 😊
The old one was named Aeryn, and my laptops are named Leia (mine) and Xena (this one is from work).
In the past, I've also used Leela, Rey, Ripley, Seven, Arya, and Trinity. A lot of them were work computers.
Going to try creating a sci-fi gun in MagicaCSG. I'm not very experienced in detailed hard-surface modeling, so it's going to be an interesting challenge.
Disclaimer: I hate real-life guns. My sci-fi gun will emit a peace beam. ✌️😉
Eugen Rochko recently posted a thought:
"I think it comes down to, AI has no place in the arts. Machine-generated art has the appearance of what it is emulating, but no substance. Like cake made entirely of fondant. Or cardboard."
'Aiono' replied: "Also even if it could, like why would you automate one of the most entertaining part of being a human?"
TIL that it wasn’t Star Trek TNG that came up with the idea for a positronic brain for androids. Isaac Asimov used that terminology in I, Robot in the 1950s. I’m not sure if he was the first but that’s still decades before Commander Data was imagined into existence. #scifi#StarTrek#IsaacAsimov
Just watched the old 80s SciFi movie "Battle Beyond the Stars". I came across it while browsing recommendations on streaming.
There is a SciFi movie I watched on TV as a kid, early 80s, that I've been looking for, and I think this is the one. The listed Norwegian title on IMDB seems to match what I remember too.
It's actually quite enjoyable too. Pretty average overall, but a nice watch for a lazy Saturday. 😊