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I am a huge Star Wars fan as I'm sure some of you are. However, this new addition of 3 films to be set after the Return of the Jedi leaves me perturbed.

Are we going to be subjected to Hans Solo and Princess Lea discussing their exploits over liver and onions at the retirement home? How on earth are they going to make a further 3 films ...

From transporters to tractor beams, Alice Udale-Smith discovers the space-age technology we’ve got today

This May sees the release of Star Trek Into Darkness. Directed by J. J. Abrams, trailers for this twelfth Star Trek film have been getting Trekkies very excited indeed...

Being the pedant that I am I have some issues with the five chosen and that any self-respecting Trekkie would be excited about the sci-fi actioner that calls itself Star Trek but ...

Films suggest that our future is full of fantastically large spacecraft in galaxies far, far away. But the reality is that our ambitions in space are small – and seemingly getting smaller - says Quentin Cooper.

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is.

Spaceships are really big too.

The first few lines, as you probably recognised, are from Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. ...

I've always felt that this is the inevitable outcome of mans evolution. When the lights go out in the universe and the last star burns up its final remnants of nuclear fuel, sentient robots will still be roaming the endless void, perhaps looking for a way to reboot everything again.

Astronomy news this week bolstered the idea that the seeds of life are all over our solar system. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft identified carbon compounds at ...

This is a fun, although biased comparison of the 2 universes. Compares starships, firepower, personal weapons systems and other fun facts.

http://www.bestonlineengineeringdegree. ... al-debate/

Even Darth Vader is no match for the New York traffic cops.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOgIrqnmq0

It would seem the force was not with him that day.

He is usually attacked for his other books where he posits Venus 'arrived' because that is not confirmable. Of course, neither is our speculation about accretion. Many scientists of the time had other opinions other than accretion; in fact in 2011 scientists declared accretion out and compression in. Which sounds to me like gravity out and electromagnetism in.
His book Earth in Upheaval has research done by established scientists that is hard to refute. The ...

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I came across this site during one of my youtube binges. Its pretty amazing. It's basically kind of like a much less humourous B.P.R.D called the SCP Foundation (Secure. Contain. Protect.) It's a fictional organisation that captures, contains and studies paranormal creatures/objects. More horror than sci-fi, but I'm sure a lot of you will find it quite interesting. There are also a few ...

I've just finished reading chariots of the gods and I was wondering what you guys thought of it?
For those who haven't read it, the basic theory is that we are the descendants/engineered creations of humanoid aliens who visited Earth in early pre-history, teaching early man the rudiments of civilisation and generally pooking their noses in. Hookey as it might sound, the author gives plenty of examples in historical texts, archaeology and mythology. A lot ...