NASA Travel Posters
Posted on January 10th, 2015 by Tim Aldiss
Wow look at these beautiful pieces of poster artwork commissioned by NASA themselves to help inspire a generation to stay on board with the space discovery missions being run by NASA. Commissioned to look like art deco 1930’s era classic poster-work they certainly evoke memories of some classic science fiction artwork and could easily adorn […]
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Autocells, The Origin of Life and Gaia Theory
Posted on November 17th, 2013 by Tim Aldiss
The famous Martian meteorite ALH 84001 contains a “fossil” that was ruled out as life because of its small size, however it could still be an autocell – a precursor to life. Credit: NASA The World Fantasy Convention 2013 took place at the Brighton Metropole earlier this month. My father was one of the guests […]
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Road trains: the future of connected driving
Posted on October 3rd, 2012 by Tim Aldiss
The utopian futures of urbanisation as depicted films like Minority Report, Star Wars and Blade Runner (utopian?) came one step closer recently when Volvo announced real world trails of something that they’ve coined (SARTRE) Road Trains. Anyone who’s ever tail-gated a bus on a bike will understand the principles of economy involved here, but it’s […]
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Hendrix Reads Aldiss
Posted on August 31st, 2012 by Tim Aldiss
How about this gem of a photo that @penguinbookaday tweeted recently. OK so technically Jimi Hendrix isn’t actually reading dad’s work (his name is on the cover as the editor), but I am still impressed with this roundabout claim to fame. Hendrix was an SF fan, he has also been quoted as enjoying dad’s work, but the […]
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Konstantin’s cable & Google’s tethered space station
Posted on November 27th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
NASA artists impression of Konstantin’s cable Surprisingly it was not a science fiction writer who came up with the idea of tethering a space station at a point on the equator via a hugely long cable, but a Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895. A real stretch for anyone’s imagination the idea has lasted, […]
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Beautiful time lapse view of Earth from the space station
Posted on November 14th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
No words… just beautiful… http://vimeo.com/32001208
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[VIDEO] Video Glasses Stream Everything You Do
Posted on July 25th, 2011 by Tim Aldiss
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Perry Rhodan: most successful science fiction ever
Posted on November 10th, 2010 by Tim Aldiss
I was amazed to read in Wired Magazine that this series of Science Fiction novels that has been running since 1961 has been publishing novella’s (that’s at least 17,500 words) EVERY WEEK! I mean that’s a 49 years x 52 weeks x at least 17,500 words = a lot. Here’s Wikipedia’s entry: Perry Rhodan is […]
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