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Life imitates SF
- The Terrafugia Transition: flying cars have finally arrived.
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Life imitates SF
- The Physics arXiv Blog on why our universe must have been born inside a Black Hole: "The idea that new universes can be created inside black holes and that our own may have originated in this way has been the raw fodder of science fiction for many years." Which SF stories have used this as a premise?
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Life imitates SF
- Futurology: the tricky art of knowing what will happen next. Geoffrey Hoyle revisits his 1972 book 2010: Living in the Future.
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Life imitates SF
- Did a classic piece of science fiction predict the WikiLeaks revelations? Tim Martin delves into John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider.
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Life imitates SF
- A skyscraper like no other: Taiwan to build 390-meter tower with floating observatory blimps.
- Shamelessly nicked from the best ever Thunderbirds episode: the instant road-laying machine.
- A skyscraper like no other: Taiwan to build 390-meter tower with floating observatory blimps.
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They're Here
"I've not been so excited about a bacteria since my STD tests came back clean." Re. today's NASA announcement: okay, it's not red dwarfs from Mars, it's the discovery of some mad microbe that utilises arsenic instead of phosphorus. Woah. This is actually big news for our understanding of life on Earth. (via purplecthulhu)
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Life imitates SF
- Aliens have deactivated British and US nuclear missiles, say US military pilots.
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Life imitates SF
- Hi-tech 21st Century clothes you'll never wear.
- A real-life superhero wedding. Okay, I know superheroes aren't 'real life'.
- Hi-tech 21st Century clothes you'll never wear.