science fiction

The general rule of hard sci-fi is that there is no (easy) stealth in space, and I'm perfectly content with it. What I have some troubles with, is that this rule include decoys, too. I like decoys) So I brainstormed quite a long time, and came with the idea of drive system, that - theoretically...

https://www.bigmediumsmall.com/modelshop-greebles (h/t publiusr)

Quite amusing: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXD3b6OLtsg

Passed away on the 2nd of July. https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0705/1521987-fantastic-four-actor-julian-mcmahon-has-died-aged-56/ https://www.ign.com/articles/fantastic-four-and-niptuck-actor-julian-mcmahon-dies https://deadline.com/2025/07/julian-mcmahon-dead-1236449999/...

Illustration for Isaac Asimov's novel Man in Space by Robert McCall, 1974 (king size) :

I didn’t realise Mel Brooks was 98. Announcement trailer: View: https://youtu.be/WsK-KPi_w3w?si=rKW5QGsoIEeFOF7d More details including returning cast members. https://www.ign.com/articles/spaceballs-2-plots-a-course-for-2027-with-mel-brooks-in-first-teaser-trailer

Stumbled upon this the other day: an epic 3rd episode of Legendary movie Tron, first released in 1982, where the Digital world permeates the real one. Seems Filming wrapped on May 1st (see wiki link below). Without any doubt, a must see. (release date October 2025) View...

I realize this is a pretty niche topic but it's at least moderately uplifting how, sometimes, imagined capabilities drive technological development and once mature end up cycling back into props and replicas that inspired them. Tricorders, such as here, are an example though many professional...

I thought I'd open this because it might interest members. Project Hail Mary is a novel by Andy Weir, author of The Martian and is hard-ish sf (though a critical element has a TRL of 0 or less). Filming has wrapped on an adaptation starring Ryan Gosling that is slated for release on March 20...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%27s_third_airport Ever since I was a little boy and saw pictures and books about London Airport grown-ups have been trying to find a replacement. In the TV show Thunderbirds it is called London International Airport. By September 1966 the emergence of...

This old movie has some chilling echoes today https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjm9ndw9xeeo https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/27/gene-hackman-actor-wife-found-dead-santa-fe-home/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/gene-hackman-tribute-death/ Greats still going, right, and center. Rest In Peace :(

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxk6V50xx8 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLAi-Y1XrI

An appropriate subject for the night that is in it, methinks. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlnER8SxfQ View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjmQXDhyps

Sunday, October 27, 2024 marked the 70th Anniversary of the theatrical premiere of Gojira or Godzilla in Nagoya, Japan on October 27, 1954.

The "Thingy", a flying sub-tank from "The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)". Just funny.- (https://clip.cafe/the-three-stooges-in-orbit-1962/oh-no-not-disneyland/)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robocop-tv-series-amazon-james-wan-1236011902/

The voice of Parker has passed on. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj463gx8gyo

The American actor James Earl Jones has passed away at the age of 93.:( Sources: View: https://x.com/MarkHamill/status/1833246565168803985?t=LueMXnGSz9YOgdYQm5MREw&s=19 View: https://x.com/NavalInstitute/status/1833252640303812795?t=JDH7l0xIMSO8egcIt5_x_g&s=19

While visiting the Fireball XL5 thread on Facebook I have the BBC Radio news trying to explain what is happening to get two astronauts down from the International Space Station. Flipping to an old episode of Stargate SG1 I listen to the USAF heroes explaining to a bemusec Extra Terrestrial ally...