Just found the Fermi Paradox website. Good links but I’d like to see more content.
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Richard A. Carrigan Jr of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory writes details of a SETI search based upon visual observation of galactic scale artifacts.
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Don’t Panic, “And another thing….” is a new volume in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy written by Eoin Colfer.
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Ian Banks new novel Transition is now available as a free podcast on iTunes. This is great news for Banks fans, and for scifi in general. Many thanks to Orbit Books for releasing this as a podcast the same day as the hardcover publication. Now that’s a company which understands Web 2.0.
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I haven’t read them yet but here are 2 new Dune Novels, written by Frank Herbert’s son Brian, and Kevin Anderson. Paul of Dune is a sequel to Dune (prior to Dune Messiah) while the soon to be released Winds of Dune takes place between Dune Messiah and Children of Dune.
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Here’s a list of 5 promising new indie scifi movies from Sundance 2009. The review is from Popular Mechanics. No seriously it really is. Just look at the URL.
And here’s 2 more, web-only indie movies named The Black Dawn:Catalyst and The Black Dawn. Thanks to Big Dumb Object for pointing out this series.
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Optical SETI offers a much higher chance of finding a real signal because of the simple fact that there are no known natural sources of nanosecond pulses (or shorter). Any 10 nanosecond pulse of light can only be from intelligent life (or of course a shocking new natural phenomenon).
Recently a researcher in Australia has detected [...]
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John Grunsfeld just dedicated his HST ACS repair work to “the study of the behavior of small screws in space.”
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A new AI was born today, it’s now online, The Wolfram Alpha.
I’d like to offer an especially warm greeting to our future overlord.
To quote Stephen Wolfram: “Wolfram|Alpha defines a new direction in computing—that would have simply not have been possible without Mathematica, and that in time will add some remarkable new dimensions to Mathematica itself.”
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It’s not science fiction today, but 50 years ago this repair mission would have been considered a great scifi story.
Here’s a link to the detailed mission timeline and NASA TV website.
Rendezvous is Wednesday morning, grapple is 11:54AM CDT. EVA #1 begins early Thursday.
If you are reading this in the future you already know the results.
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