Life imitates SF

Feb 18, 2010 08:17

  • Energy-efficient robot mules to be developed for military use.
  • The Strugatsky brothers' 1972 SF novel Roadside Picnic inspired Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker, which then inspired the 2006 shooter video game 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl'. Recently the game has been played for real inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone (aka. The Zone of Read more... )
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    jblum February 18 2010, 08:42:19 UTC
    Re the STALKER game. Is it just me, or should this be a frontrunner for a slow-motion Darwin Award?

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