The Informational Sci-Fi Thread

[Thomek]

Have you seen Dark City? Awesome film noir.. Pure steampunk.

Oops saw that sawbone already mentioned it.

[djavo]

Sleep Dealer. Basicly the mexicans show how its done to northern neighbours from hell.

[Ujin]

Have you seen Dark City? Awesome film noir.. Pure steampunk.

Oops saw that sawbone already mentioned it.

Jennifer Connely omnomnom.Oh and yeah, good movie (the ending kinda ruins it a bit though).

[Sawbone]

Few more:

Primer - low sci-fi but very interresting
The Fountain - some sci-fi elements; mostly an existentialism themed movie
ExistenZ - Cronenberg when he was on crack (more Naked Lunch, less like history of violence)
The Fly - Cronenberg again
Brazil - Gilliam's crazy imagination is always fun to visit

Add: A Clockwork orange... of course ;p

[Templar_Ratigan]

Bjord and.....informational?

DOESNT FIT!! DOESNT FIT!!

WAH WAH WAH BULLSHIT ALARM ON, FULL ALERT!!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fUHnExxlIU&feature=related

PS: What is informational?

[Ninja_Khorin]

Here you go.

[Templar_Ratigan]

Ah ive learnt a new word and here I was thinking of the word 'Informative'.

Of course what I should have said is: "what is informational about these shows?"

[Ninja_Khorin]

I dunno. Probably something. All I can tell you is that they contain about 500GB worth of information atleast. Depending on what format they are in.

And as Mr. Ray Bradbury put: "Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction."

[Templar_Ratigan]

I dunno. Probably something. All I can tell you is that they contain about 500GB worth of information atleast. Depending on what format they are in.

And as Mr. Ray Bradbury put: "Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction."

Poetic....although not very informative.

[Nessaj]

This is some heavy IRL sci-fi stuff
Not the most "fun" to read through but its essence and potential is pretty mind-blowing.

Sources:

Pentagon Scientists Use ‘Time Hole’ to Make Events Disappear (Wired)
A Cloak in Time Could Secure Networks (Discovery News)
Demonstration of temporal cloaking (Nature Journal)

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Masking an object entails bending light around that object. If the light doesn’t actually hit an object, then that object won’t be visible to the human eye.

Where events are concerned, concealment relies on changing the speed of light. Light that’s emitted from actions, as they happen, is what allows us to see those actions happen. Usually, that light comes in a constant flow. What Cornell researchers did, in simple terms, is tweak that ongoing flow of light — just for a mere iota of time — so that an event could transpire without being observable.

The entire experiment occurred inside a fiber optics cable. Researchers passed a beam of green light down the cable, and had it move through a lens that split the light into two frequencies, one moving slowly and the other faster. As that was happening, they shot a red laser through the beams. Since the laser “shooting” occurred during a teeny, tiny time gap, it was imperceptible.

[Bjord]

First off, it's otaku and not weeaboo.
 
Secondly, informational refers to the aspect of informing. Obviously.
 
Thirdly, people may even inform of interesting happenings or discoveries in the world of science. As demonstrated by Cooties.
 
Didn't occur to me that both science fiction and science itself blend nicely in one thread!

[Ninja_Khorin]

Otaku sounds like weaboo to me.

On a sidenote, I watched Dark City. It was actualyl a decent movie. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Nessaj]

Massive sun flare hitting Earth producing an Aurora.

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[Angantyr]

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Massive sun flare hitting Earth producing an Aurora.

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The beauty makes all that cosmic death ray bombardment worthwhile.

[Nessaj]

More fun things in 2012 The year of creativity it seems.

Chemists have taken an important step in making artificial life forms from scratch. Using a novel chemical reaction, they have created self-assembling cell membranes, the structural envelopes that contain and support the reactions required for life.

http://pda.physorg.com/news/2012-01-envelope-artificial-cell.html

“It’s trivial and can be done in a day,” Devaraj said. “New people who join the lab can make membranes from day one.”

Time to build + grow us some Cyborgs.