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The Film That NASA Banned May See the Light of Day

Jan 19, 2012 | Forbes

Image: Wikipedia When Richard Garriot de Cayeux, the founder of the Ultima series of computer games and the world’s sixth space tourist, went to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008, he didn’t just kick back and bask in zero gravity. No, during his twelve-day...

Lost Charles Darwin fossils discovered in a drawer after 165 years

Jan 17, 2012 | SyFy

You find all sorts of strange things in drawers. Broken pencils. Bits of string. Charles Darwin’s slides. An even more broken pencil sharpener. Wait … what was that third thing? That was likely the thought process of Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a...

What Would Star Wars Cost in 2012 Dollars?

Jan 17, 2012 | Forbes

Via Geek.com Movie budgets have been skyrocketing to absurd rates ever since Kevin Costner spent $175 million in 1995 dollars to make Waterworld. But you know which movie’s budget wasn’t absurd? Star Wars. As we all know, George Lucas spent $11 million to make his...

Bangs & Whimpers: A Look at the Top Five Doomsday Scenarios

Aug 1, 2010 | Lightspeed Magazine

by CAROL PINCHEFSKY PUBLISHED IN AUG. 2010 (ISSUE 3) | 1753 WORDS From 1945 to 1991, Americans woke up every morning to coffee, cereal, and the threat of a Ruskie-style, nuclear holocaust. But ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the only thing we’ve had to fear...