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Aug 26 2012 No Comment  10 views

More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.

      - The High Frontier by Gerard K. O’Neill, 1976.



Geek Quote of the Day

Aug 25 2012 No Comment  15 views

A few million years ago there were no humans. Who will be here a few million years hence? In all the 4.6-billion-year history of our planet, nothing much ever left it. But now, tiny unmanned exploratory spacecraft from Earth are moving, glistening and elegant, through the solar system. We have made a preliminary reconnaissance of twenty worlds, among them all of the planets visible to the naked eye, all those wandering nocturnal lights that stirred our ancestors toward understanding and ecstasy. If we survive, our time will be famous for two reasons: that at this dangerous moment of technological adolescence we managed to avoid self-destruction; and because this is the epoch in which we began our journey to the stars.

      - Cosmos by Carl Sagan, 1980.

Geek Media Round-Up: August 24, 2012

Aug 24 2012 No Comment  40 views

Comics

  • Interview: Hero Complex has a long interview with Kelly Sue DeConnick, who is writing Marvel’s new Captain Marvel as a woman (Carol Danvers).
  • Interview: So Why Did Ed Brubaker Leave Marvel Anyway?
  • News: Geoff Johns of DC Comics will be coming to Michigan for the debut of first Arab-American Green Lantern. Mark your calendar if you live near Detroit.
  • Digital Revolution Transforms Comic Books
  • Does Being Superman’s Girlfriend Trivialize Wonder Woman?

Cross-Media

  • 15 novels eclipsed by their movie adaptations, including The Princess Bride, which is far and away better than the movie.
  • Top 10 Sci-Fi And Fantasy Redheads… with a seven-way (nine?) tie.

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Geek Quote of the Day

Aug 24 2012 No Comment  5 views

When the history of our galaxy is written, and for all any of us know it may already have been, if Earth gets mentioned at all it won’t be because its inhabitants visited their own Moon. That first step, like a newborn’s cry, would be automatically assumed. What would be worth recording is what kind of civilization we earthlings created and whether or not we ventured out to other parts of the galaxy.

      - Liftoff by Michael Collins, 1988
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Aug 23 2012 No Comment  21 views


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Geek Media Round-Up: August 22, 2012

Aug 23 2012 No Comment  56 views

Art

Star Wars as Spaghetti Westerns

  • Awesome Movie Spaceship Chart Poster
  • Game of Thrones Minimalist House Posters
  • Mad magazine parodies The Avengers.
  • R2-D2 Birthday Cake

Comics

  • News: New Comics Publisher Launching
  • The History of Censorship in Comics.
  • It’s Time for Women to Read Comics in Public, Again! (August 28th)
  • What ‘Age’ Of Comics Is This?

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Geek Quote of the Day

Aug 23 2012 No Comment  8 views

Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die.

      - Entering Space by Robert Zubrin, 1999.


Geek Quote of the Day

Aug 22 2012 No Comment  7 views

If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.

      - Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2007.

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