… the photos of Nasa, collected during their lfetime.
Nasa was founded 50 years ago. It added a lot to our knowledge of our world, our solar system and space.
While doing all that they build up a wonderful collection of images, now available for all to see.
Click this:
telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl
And enjoy a version of Starwars as you never have seen.
ASCII art is fun!
Kirk and crew never had it so good. This “high-trek” bridge offers a 102-inch high-def view into the ever-expanding universe of home entertainment. And it was all built from scratch by homeowner Gary Reighn
See here the slide show of this very special living room!
I am a big fan of the Babylon 5 series. It was broadcast many years ago, a good memory.
So I was pleasantly surprised to learn that a direct-to-DVD series will be released under the title The Lost Tales.
The first DVD has been released this week . Now either this new series has a very slow start or I am going to be rather disappointed.
Two tales are told. A very slow and without any action first one about a demon escaped from earth, nearly without tension, and without any surprise in the end. Lots and lots of blabla, nice effects, but nearly no plot.
The second one is just as slow and low on action. The effects are beautiful, some of my favorite persons are there (Sheridan, Galen). But as a whole, quite a disappointment.
Lets hope the episode with Garibaldi will be more fun.
Eureka, the scifi series second season has started
Quote: Marshall Jack Carter: Let’s not shoot the crazy end-of-the-world machine just yet.
The series mixes light humour, typical scifi techno blabla and fun characters like the marshal and the techno do-it-all Henry Deacon, freaks like Fargo and Taggart, the into a nice summer melt.
Keeping with current trends in scifi, it keeps the aliens, humanoid heavy make up type of guys, out. And also with current trends (heroes, 4400) people with ‘abilities’ are in.
Its not the best scifi series ever, but a nice thing to watch during summertime. Now if my neighbour would please stopping drilling holes all the time I could relax and enjoy an long weekend. No sign of Archimedes yet!
One of my favorite science fiction books must be Dune, by Frank Herbert. In the Netherlands this appeared in the Meulenhoff Science-fictions series, sometimes in the seventies. What makes this book so special is the richeness of the scene, the humans staying human in so strange locations, the numerous links to religions and philosophies, hints at nomadic arabic heroism and immense tragedies.
The series of Duin ended with Duin Kapittel or Chapterhouse Dune as it is called in English. It had a rather open end , but after the dead of Frank Herbert I thought it was over. I also enjoyed the movie Dune, with an amusing role of Sting as an evil Harkonnen. And a few years ago a mini television series played the Dune series until the God Emperor appeared.
But it did not end , Frank Herbert’s son, Herbert, son, helped by Kevin Anderson, continued to write about the Dune universe. And while the books are not of the literal quality of the Frank Herbert books, it is still good amusement about a well-known universe. My latest additions are the books set in time about 30 years before the first Dune book.
Until now all these books were read by me in Dutch, though I have the God Emperor book also in English. Alas, I failed to get the Harkonnen book, so I ordered this one in English. Cheaper also by the way. And while I was at it, I decided to order the books set hundreds of years before in time. about the Butlerian wars against the intelligent machines. This will keep me busy for a while!
And I discovered there are also two books continuing the stoory after the Chapterhouse Dune book! The first one, called Hunters of Dune, is also in the order. The second one, Sandworms of Dune, will be published in august 2007, so after all those years I am impatiently waiting for a book to be published about my beloved Dune universe!
It is season finale time again. Most of my favorite television series are on vacation. Battlestar Galactica is already finished, SG-1 is finished forever as a series, Atlantis wil continue with Carter in the cast next season. Harry Dresden will also return next year. Heroes also came to a season finale, much is revealed, enough loose ends left to continue this great show in 2008. Boston Legal is still on for some weeks and so is 4400. Doctor Who with his lovely new companian Martha is doing what Doctor Who is always doing, the Daleks and his other friends pop up everywhere, but mostly in Londen. The episode with Shakespeare was fun, the rest is not too exciting.
So this will be a long summer. I am looking forward for Eureka, back in june. Sliders is waiting for me, downloaded the whole lot last week.
I just watched the last episodes of Lost, now in its third season. The second season was not that great, but this third season surprised me. And the closing epsiodes were good! Instead of flashbacks, now we are shown flashes of the future, and instead of giving insight of the past of a person, this is full of secrets not revealed. Who is in the coffin? Who is Kate living with? Sigh, wait till next season!
