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What are the greatest things we have already achieved or could conceivably achieve that future superevolved cockroaches or alien tourists would look at and go, “Huh. Those humans weren’t half bad”?
It was Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer. He gave them the idea. That’s just great. Thanks, Phil.
This is insane. And it’s real.
Mine is a no-brainer: it’s the Doctor, of course. Though Buckaroo Banzai would come a close second.
I wouldn’t normally link to someone else’s giveaway, but since I’m no longer doing these kinds of giveaways and everyone should have Doctor Who box sets in their possession, here ya go.
Like if Michael Bay remade *Cosmos,* but with Phil along to make sure all the science was right.
Are you familiar with the blog Bad Astronomy? It’s where, in part, astronomer Phil Plait dissects how TV and film get the science wrong in their science fiction, and even sometimes in their science “fact,” as when he rips apart alien-abduction and moon-landing-hoax “documentaries.” Now, as Web Newser reports (and as Plait himself posted the … more…
I’m fascinated by sites like Whitley Strieber’s Unknown Country, where the author talks a lot about his ongoing alien abuduction experiences (his 1987 book Communion purports to recount the beginnings of these experiences) and how multidimensional godlike extraterrestrials have some connection to the Maya and ancient wisdom and 2012, which is going to kill us … more…
BUMPED UP: To note that I’ve added another screening this week: The Soloist (opens in the U.S. on April 24, and in the U.K. on September 11), the Jamie Foxx-Robert Downey Jr. movie about crazy musical genius. It’s from director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) and screenwriter Susannah Grant (Catch and Release, Charlotte’s Web, … more…
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