Beam Me Up
Blog URL www.wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com
Tags science fiction, science, radio, movie, book, tv, award, reading
The Beam Me Up blog is the "sister" or support blog for the Beam Me Up podcast.
The theme there is as it is in this blog, discussion of science fiction and the science that I feel often influences great science fiction.
Latest Blog Posts
- Mainer wins NASA glove competition - Again! on Nov 20, 2009 in gloves Southwest Harbor Maine nasa
NASA has awarded Peter Homer of Southwest Harbor, Maine, $250,000 for coming up with the winning design concept for more flexible space gloves intended to make it easier for astronauts to perform tasks. It's the second time Peter Homer has won th...
- Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin on Nov 19, 2009 in animation
Hey, you have got to check out this short film. It's called Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin. It is about a meteor strike and it's effect on one man. I love the animation. Thanks to SF Signals for the original post.Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) fro...
- Why Mile Wide Motherships Don't Make Sense! on Nov 16, 2009 in space craft bad science wtf science fiction
Finally! Someone agrees with me! I never thought these mega-ship from E-T to Independence Day made any sense what so ever! so I was reading on the Dvice blog and here was an article giving out some excellent static on these uber mother ships. Firs...
- The Clone Song on Nov 16, 2009 in the clone song comedy clone
Have you ever see this? Its the Clone Song rumor has it that it was written by the good doctor himself. Found a copy....Wonder if John could voice this? lolThe Clone Song By: Isaac Asimov Tune: Home On The Range Oh, give me a clone Of my own fle...
- Whedon's Dollhouse canceled on Nov 16, 2009 in tv series drama dollhouse science fiction
Mark Wilson of the SciFi Fantasy Blog writes: Fox network has decided the Joss Whedon basement-rated drama Dollhouse has had all the breaks it's going to get. Fox has committed to air all 13 episodes starting up again December 4. Four episodes had...
- No Cheese, but there IS H2O on Luna! on Nov 13, 2009 in impact lcross water science nasa moon
CNN reports that NASA's LCROSS has indeed turned up water on the moon! Preliminary data collected from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite's October 9th impact, indicates a significant amount of water in the plume thrown up by the im...
- Guess what's going on here! on Nov 9, 2009 in photograph science
So again, I am reading my reader postings from the Make Magazine blog. I come to this cool photo from the Science Photo blog (and I start thinking...ummm why is this on Make...and then I began to suspect that their sensibilities may be similar to my...
