December 2011
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Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011 →
The world’s lowest density material, feeling objects with implants and other interesting inventions and discoveries.
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2011 →
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The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.
– Alvin Toffler (via chrbutler)
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Your favorite sci-fi movie of 2011?
My favorite so far is Source Code (I didn’t see all the films).
I also liked Limitless, The Adjustment Bureau (difficult to say if it’s exactly sci-fi, but it’s a Philip K. Dick adaptation) and the family film Real Steel.
Sci-fi films of 2011 I didn’t see yet are: Super 8, The Thing, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Attack the Block, Paul, Cow-Boy and Aliens, Apollo...
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Merry Christmas!
Joyeux Noël!
Feliz Navidad!
Gioioso Natale!
Frohe Weihnachten!
Feliz Natal!
καλά Χριστούγεννα!
С Рождеством Христовым!
メリークリスマス!
聖誕節同新年快樂
QISmaS DatIvjaj ‘ej DIS chu’ DatIvjaj! (Klingon)
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To recent followers and visitors of Science & Fiction,
If you want to see my last year sci-fi Christmas posts, simply click on this tag Christmas. There is a nice series of six covers from the magazine Galaxy with a very special Santa Claus.
Thanks to all!
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BBC News - Nasa develops space harpoon to take... →
The space agency has already built a prototype capable of launching test harpoon tips across a distance of a mile (1.6km).
The engineers believe it would be safer to collect comet material using the equipment rather than trying to land on the celestial bodies.
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BBC News: Higgs Boson →
Scientists are expected on Tuesday (December 13) to present preliminary evidence that the most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - has been glimpsed.
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Last week, the probe (Phobos-Grunt) was said to have shown signs of uncontrolled...
– Scientist: Russia’s Failed Mars Moon Probe Worth a Second Try | Space.com
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Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book....
– - Ray Bradbury
*in response to the question: What do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)
(via peacebyavoidinglife)
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