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Retro SciFi: "Voyage to Jupiter" (VIDEO)

"Future Present" - Is Science Fiction a Religious Experience?

Is science fiction a prelude to science fact? Can you "sense" the future in the present?

With District 9 zooming to #1 at the box office this week, we thought it was a great question to poll.

Is science fiction a prelude to science fact? Can you "sense" the future in the present?

With District 9 zooming to #1 at the box office this week, we thought it was a great question to poll.

Will Ridley Scott's New "Alien" Prequel Mimic William Gibson's Awesome Unfilmed Alien 3 Screenplay?

FADE IN: DEEP SPACE - THE FUTURE: The silent field of stars -- eclipsed by the dark bulk of an approaching ship.  CLOSER...

William Gibson's "Alien 3" Screenplay

20th Century Fox is rebooting its "Alien" franchise with Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott set to return as director.

The film will be a prequel to the seminal 1979 film about an extraterrestrial creature that stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship. The 1979 epic starred Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver. The new treatment will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal was generated by an empty ship to warn them.

Ridley Scott: "After 2001 -A Space Odyssey, Science Fiction is Dead"

In a speech at the 2007 Venice Film Festival at  special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Sir Ridley Scott, the legendary director of Alien, announced that he believes that science-fiction as a genre is dead -gone the way of Westerns.

Scott believes, as we do at The Daily Galaxy, that although the flashy special effects of block-busters such as The Matrix, Independence Day and The War of the Worlds, may sell at the box office, that none can beat Stanley Kubrick’s haunting 1968 epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film is as fresh (and perhaps more relevant) today as the day it premiered.

The video at the end of the post -Kubrick 2001 -The Space Odyssey Explained- is a minor masterpiece in itself and is not to be missed.

1950's "Space Explorers" Sci-Fi Series Rediscovered (VIDEO)

It's rare when a lost classic retro cartoon such as "The Space Explorers" is rediscovered after 50 years in some old dusty film archives. If you were a kid growing up in the 1950-1960's dubbed the "Space Race" era, you had the pleasure and fortune to watch the myriad of space shows and cartoons being broadcast on the air. Each morning, shows like Captain Satellite, Captain Kangaroo, Captain Video, Sheriff John, and even Romper Room with "Miss Connie" showed cartoons like: Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Space Patrol, Fireball XL-5, Ultra Man, Rocket Man, Commando Cody, and the subject of this article... "The Space Explorers"

Kurt Vonnegut: Human Life as a Space Voyage -A Galaxy Insight

"I love you sons of bitches. You're all I read any more. You're the only ones who'll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that'll last for billions of years. You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell."

 

Spoken by Eliot Rosewater to a group of science fiction writers in Vonnegut's underrated masterpiece, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater.

 

"Jumper" -Teleportation Comes to Life at MIT in New Sci-Fi Thriller

In the science fiction-action-thriller Jumper, a genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.

"Ambassadors Day" Video: Futuristic SciFi Short Film:

Ambassadors Day takes place thousands of years in the future, when the remnants of the human species have moved indoors to escape the wrath of an environment turned hostile. Many generations have passed, and all that's left of communication between these isolated sanctuaries of humankind are the Ambassadors.

Dante 01: A New SciFi Classic?

The enigmatic French filmmaker Marc Caro has resurfaced after many years at the top of his game   to create Dante 01, a noir film about a prison at the end of the universe that becomes even more horrible when a mysterious stranger arrives at the facility.

"Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It’s a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, [jailers] and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship’s depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits… each must confront his own Dragon.

The Theology of Battlestar Gallactica

In 1950, British mathematician, logician and cryptographer Alan Turing devised a method to determine whether a computer could truly think. Detailed in the paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, which was published in issue 49 of the journal Mind, the so-called Turing Test proceeds as follows: "a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass."

Retro SciFi: "Voyage to Jupiter" (VIDEO)

"Future Present" - Is Science Fiction a Religious Experience?

Is science fiction a prelude to science fact? Can you "sense" the future in the present?

With District 9 zooming to #1 at the box office this week, we thought it was a great question to poll.

Is science fiction a prelude to science fact? Can you "sense" the future in the present?

With District 9 zooming to #1 at the box office this week, we thought it was a great question to poll.

Will Ridley Scott's New "Alien" Prequel Mimic William Gibson's Awesome Unfilmed Alien 3 Screenplay?

FADE IN: DEEP SPACE - THE FUTURE: The silent field of stars -- eclipsed by the dark bulk of an approaching ship.  CLOSER...

William Gibson's "Alien 3" Screenplay

20th Century Fox is rebooting its "Alien" franchise with Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott set to return as director.

The film will be a prequel to the seminal 1979 film about an extraterrestrial creature that stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship. The 1979 epic starred Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver. The new treatment will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal was generated by an empty ship to warn them.

Ridley Scott: "After 2001 -A Space Odyssey, Science Fiction is Dead"

In a speech at the 2007 Venice Film Festival at  special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Sir Ridley Scott, the legendary director of Alien, announced that he believes that science-fiction as a genre is dead -gone the way of Westerns.

Scott believes, as we do at The Daily Galaxy, that although the flashy special effects of block-busters such as The Matrix, Independence Day and The War of the Worlds, may sell at the box office, that none can beat Stanley Kubrick’s haunting 1968 epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film is as fresh (and perhaps more relevant) today as the day it premiered.

The video at the end of the post -Kubrick 2001 -The Space Odyssey Explained- is a minor masterpiece in itself and is not to be missed.

1950's "Space Explorers" Sci-Fi Series Rediscovered (VIDEO)

It's rare when a lost classic retro cartoon such as "The Space Explorers" is rediscovered after 50 years in some old dusty film archives. If you were a kid growing up in the 1950-1960's dubbed the "Space Race" era, you had the pleasure and fortune to watch the myriad of space shows and cartoons being broadcast on the air. Each morning, shows like Captain Satellite, Captain Kangaroo, Captain Video, Sheriff John, and even Romper Room with "Miss Connie" showed cartoons like: Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Space Patrol, Fireball XL-5, Ultra Man, Rocket Man, Commando Cody, and the subject of this article... "The Space Explorers"

Kurt Vonnegut: Human Life as a Space Voyage -A Galaxy Insight

"I love you sons of bitches. You're all I read any more. You're the only ones who'll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that'll last for billions of years. You're the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell."

 

Spoken by Eliot Rosewater to a group of science fiction writers in Vonnegut's underrated masterpiece, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater.

 

"Jumper" -Teleportation Comes to Life at MIT in New Sci-Fi Thriller

In the science fiction-action-thriller Jumper, a genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them.

"Ambassadors Day" Video: Futuristic SciFi Short Film:

Ambassadors Day takes place thousands of years in the future, when the remnants of the human species have moved indoors to escape the wrath of an environment turned hostile. Many generations have passed, and all that's left of communication between these isolated sanctuaries of humankind are the Ambassadors.

Dante 01: A New SciFi Classic?

The enigmatic French filmmaker Marc Caro has resurfaced after many years at the top of his game   to create Dante 01, a noir film about a prison at the end of the universe that becomes even more horrible when a mysterious stranger arrives at the facility.

"Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It’s a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, [jailers] and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship’s depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits… each must confront his own Dragon.

The Theology of Battlestar Gallactica

In 1950, British mathematician, logician and cryptographer Alan Turing devised a method to determine whether a computer could truly think. Detailed in the paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, which was published in issue 49 of the journal Mind, the so-called Turing Test proceeds as follows: "a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass."