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"What is going to happen Dave??" "Something Wonderful!" Due to popular demand and I quote " Do it, Do it, Do It " @nudge welcome to the Sci Fi Thread... not to be mistaken with the more serious topics of Space as found elsewhere on the forum... - "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all." Isaac Asimov Anything related to Science Fiction should be here... Film, TV, Magazines, Comics, Art, Clips, Photos, Interviews old or new... I was raised on a whole load of Sci-Fi when I was younger and such greats as UFO, Space 1999, Star Trek, Lost In Space to name but a few.. the list is endless so anything you want just get it in here... So If it's just me out there... this thread will seem like an awful waste of space

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Don't make me call security again... Science Fiction is made up of real things that already exist, like Space Travel, Rockets, Planets, Distant Worlds, Other things to be taken into consideration are the elements that are around but not yet realized to their full potential... AI, Robots, Space Stations, Advances in Lazer Technology so on and so forth... Unicorns don't exist at all.... I have never seen one, I know they didn't die out from over hunting or a comet hitting the planet and it's unlikely I will get to see one before I die... It's possible that they may yet clone such a beast in the future although I am not aware of such a project or indeed seen a mass of funding for the Unicorn cause... so it remains along with King Kong, Godzilla and a woman I can understand, a myth, a fantasy....

Security!!! Someone has put a Fantasy related item in the Sci-Fi section....

Cast from Space 1999 First Season Catherine Schell who played Maya... Loved her character, she could just think of a creature and transform into it.. Eagle One blueprints... Moonbase Alpha... Eagle Cockpit.... Barbara Bain...

Here is the table after Round 2 (Bundesliga) Position - Name - Points 1 - @The Palace Fan - 12 points 2 - @José - 11 points 3 - @Panna King - 9 points =4 - @RandoEFC - 8 points =4 - @Viva la FCB - 8 points =4 - @Lucas - 8 points =4 - @nudge - 8 points 5 - @Batard - 7 points 6 - @...Dan - 6 points 7 - @Bluewolf - 5 points =8 - @Eco - 4 points =8 - @Stan - 4 points =8 - @Cicero - 4 points =8 - @Dan - 4 points =8 - @Cannabis - 4 points =8 - @DNA - 4 points =8 - @Tommy - 4 points =8 - @binder - 4 points =8 - @Harry - 4 points =8 - @Storts - 4 points 9 - @SchalkeUK - 3 points =10 - @Spike - 2 points =10 - @BounceAroundTheGround - 2 points =10 - @StefBWFC - 2 points =11 - @Bluebird Hewitt - 1 point =11 - @JOSHBRFC - 1 point =11 - @Azeem - 1 point =11 - @robosys - 1 point =12 - @Dr. Gonzo - 0 points =12 - @Rucksackfranzose - 0 points =12 - @Rick - 0 points =12 - @Mel81x - 0 points =12 - @DeadLinesman - 0 points =12 - @shut up - 0 points =12 - @bozziovai - 0 points =12 - @LFCMike - 0 points =12 - @YNWA - 0 points On we go to Round 3.

No of course, and the body should be as close to the original one as possible as well, with all its imperfections and all little details. Even if cognitive dissonance wasn't an issue, I'm not particularly interested in overcoming the limitations of a human body so don't care about physical or intellectual upgrades at all... Considering it's already a copy, I'd rather keep it as "real" as possible.

Interesting.... Let's just say the technology/advancements were in fact available, would you opt for a clone of yourself as you are now? Would you go for some robotic upgrades to improve your speed, strength and thinking skills or would you go totally the other way and give the male body option a whirl???

Looking at this I might have been reincarnated then as ET far, far away from Earths disaster.

Very cool animation of China's Chang'e-4 mission: First trajectory correction was cancelled due to the course being satisfactory; the second one was carried out today. Third one expected tomorrow, and then orbital insertion planned for Wednesday. No official date has been released for the landing attempt, but CASC announced shortly after the launch that the landing will take place in the first days of January 2019.

This is pretty cool...

Excellent... After watching the first episode I realised that I had seen it before and it looked very interesting back then but for some inexplicable reason It dropped right off my radar... Thanks to you though it's back to the front of the queue.. Quality viewing it has to be said...

Agreed, I only partially got into the revamped Star Trek and I really didn't follow any of the spin offs as it seemed too many to be keeping up with but watched the Season of Star Trek Discovery and enjoyed it..

Nah just started Season 2 but been a bit busy with work and stuff... so two more seasons to go

I might give it a go then once I'm done with The Expanse...

I don't think that should be a problem. I'm not the greatest expert on Star Trek either. The series is a bit untypical for Star Trek anyway. Of course it plays in the universe but the makers interpret it relatively free. That's why some Star Trek fans don't seem to like it.

Did you watch Star Trek Discovery? I think you might actually like that.

Quality acting.... in it's time

I see @Cannabis has changed his avatar photo, but I always have an image of him as... PREDATOR

More drunk Kimi https://streamable.com/xa6kp

Just for future reference, I think you’re a massive bellend X

Aye, off subject again to your glorious new thread they say the Unicorn story came from a sea creature called The Narwhal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narwhal The unicorn and the narwhal: a tale of the tooth. Christen AG1, Christen JA. Author information Abstract From as far back as the early Roman era, detailed descriptions and artistic images of the unicorn have been imagined. In Europe, the Mediterranean and the Far East, this creature became accepted as real. Although such an animal had never actually been seen, it was said to have the appearance of a horse, the beard and cloven hooves of a goat, the tail of a lion, and a single, spear-like horn protruding from the center of its forehead. The unicorn myth originated shortly after unidentified horn-like objects, from six to ten feet long, began to appear in ancient European marketplaces. Physicians quickly ascribed outlandish healing properties to these horns, pulverizing them for the treatment of various diseases. In 1638, a Danish zoologist challenged these claims and provided evidence that the so-called "unicorn horn" was actually the tusk (tooth) of the narwhal from the Arctic seas. However, his findings remained unheeded for the next 100 years. This paper explains how the myth of the unicorn and the purported powers contained within the substance of its magical horn evolved from the ages-old spoils of the Arctic fishing trade, where the narwhal was primarily speared for food and secondarily, for the export value of its ivory tusk. This unusually long, pointed and protruding single tooth, which breaks through the upper lip and the left jaw of each male narwhal, became a highly valuable commodity over the following centuries, due to its believed supernatural origins and curative qualities.

Also, Heavy Metal Magazine was ace when it comes to sci-fi stories and artwork... a lot of fantasy there too but more than enough sci-fi as well... we had it sort of smuggled in from the West back then, and I used to hide it from my grandma

The music to that was haunting and another Golden Oldie that I still watch nowadays.

Called a joke mate. Just funny how many people on here (Not just Liverpool fans) can recognise one when they write one about another team then get all defensive if anyone else writes one about them.

How can you call unicorns a fantasy related subject mate? You're alienating () almost 52% of the population.

I absolutely loved that series as a kid and really wanted the story spaceship.

@SirBalon it's your favorite, UNICORNS The Poison-Detecting Secret Weapon of the Middle Ages: Unicorn Horn Emma Jacobs 1 day ago In the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, Europeans knew that unicorns were real. After all, their horns were the treasured possessions of royalty, nobility, and even clergy. Charles VI of France had one, as did Lorenzo de Medici, and Danish rulers sat on a throne carved out of them. Queen Elizabeth, I had a fully intact horn she used as a scepter; it was valued at 10,000 pounds—roughly the cost of a castle in her day. In fact, unicorn horns were considered so valuable the Elizabethan dramatist John Dekker wrote that one was "worth a city." But unicorns horns weren't prized just for their beauty or rarity, or as tokens of extreme wealth. They were believed to be a powerful defense against disease—and poison.

I have read a lot of James Herbert books and the best two were The Rats and The Fog, both made into movies, now this book (photo) our daughter got me and said "You will like this pops" and I did, a bit gruesome in parts and it reminded me of some of Stephen Kings books... I had just got out of the hospital after having an op for a collapsed lung when she gave me this and when I started to read it I kept thinking about my lung lol. SPARES

Love sci-fi, both for its entertainment value and cerebral properties, grew up on it as well... mostly books and then movies/tv shows. I'll start with sharing my most favourite short story ever, The Last Question by Isaac Asimov... EDIT: just found a beautiful interactive website where you can read the story: https://thelastquestionstory.com/

Live Science > Space Tiny 'Blueberries' on Mars Continue to Baffle Scientists By Meghan Bartels, Senior Writer, Space.com | December 8, 2018, 09:19 am ET It was just a few months after NASA's Opportunity rover touched down on Mars in 2004 that it spotted a geological curiosity: tiny, iron-rich spheres scattered across the rock surface near the robot's landing site. Snack-loving scientists working with the mission dubbed these objects "blueberries," but the features were easier to name than to understand. Their recipe remains something of a puzzle. Trying to sort out the origins of these blueberries has always involved studying similar-looking spherical formations here on Earth. New research takes its inspiration from these terrestrial analogs to offer a new idea of the chemistry that may have gone into whipping up these Martian blueberries. In turn, this research helps reveal what ancient Mars may have looked like. The blueberries are tantalizing for more than just their whimsical name; they also constituted some of the earliest evidence we had that Mars was once incredibly wet. "No matter what the exact chemistry of these spherules was to start, the fact that they're there tells us [that] a lot of liquid water moved through these rocks over time," Briony Horgan, a planetary scientist at Purdue University in Indiana, told Space.com. And if scientists can parse out precisely how the blueberries formed, that may help us understand what Mars was like back when the features formed — and what sort of life could have theoretically thrived in those circumstances, Horgan said. So, the team behind the new research traveled to two different terrestrial destinations in search of rock formations that resemble Martian blueberries: Utah and Mongolia. These formations aren't identical to those on Mars, which are about a tenth the size of the Earthly equivalents. Our planet's formations are also less orderly than the Martian versions. "They're all blobbed together. They're different sizes," Horgan said of the terrestrial features. But it's much easier to get to Utah and Mongolia than to Mars, so scientists use these features despite the imperfect comparison. The researchers found that the formations seemed to have been built around cores of a mineral called calcite, with iron-rich material in only the outer shell. "That moment [of discovery], it was very exciting," geochemist co-authors Hidekazu Yoshida of Nagoya University and Hitoshi Hasegawa of Kochi University in Japan, wrote in an email to Space.com. Based on those observations in the field and chemical modeling, the scientists suggested that floods of iron-rich, gently acidic water washed over the original calcite structures. Unlike the terrestrial versions, Martian blueberries seem to be made of hematite all the way through, no longer sporting any calcite heart. But that could point to a long period of overwash that ate through all the calcite, the researchers said. The nagging details of chemical reactions that may or may not have taken place on early Mars have larger implications. First, these details are relevant to scientists' natural interest in all that water that flowed through rocks to form the blueberries. "The chemistry of water tells us about the habitability of the environment," Horgan said. The second potential implication would relate to another long-standing debate about Mars — what happened to its once-thick atmosphere. The authors in the new study argued that this atmosphere could have gone into the carbonate ions locked in calcite precursors to the blueberries. But that wouldn't solve the atmospheric mystery, Steve Ruff, a planetary geologist at Arizona State University who works on the Opportunity mission, told Space.com. "My sense of what we know about the area of the hematite that we can map from orbit is it's not a huge area," covering less than 1 percent of Mars' surface, he said. There just aren't enough blueberries to pack away very much atmosphere. https://www.livescience.com/64265-mars-blueberries-mystery.html

@Storts @Marc @José

You're correct. He's the first of the five DLC characters. As for me, I've just started to play Smash so no games might as well be released for the next few months.