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The Problem With Time Travel

 Sci-Fi Movies  1 Response »
Oct 302010
 

There have been many movies, television shows, books, and short stories in which someone travels forward or backward in time. There are four little problems that none of these stories seem to take into account:

  1. The Earth revolves on its axis at about .5Km/Second
  2. The Earth orbits the sun at about 30Km/Second
  3. The Sun orbits the center of our galaxy at about 230Km/Second
  4. Our Galaxy orbits the center of the universe (wherever THAT may be) at about 640Km/Second

Adding these figures together, the Earth, and everything on it, moves about 900Km, or 559.23 miles in one second.

These figures come from This page at cornell.edu.

This means that if you were to step into a portal that transported you back in time just one second, then you would step out of that portal almost 560 miles away from the Earth. Here’s hoping you brought your space suit with you.

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The Neverending cliff hanger

 Parody, Star Trek TOS, Video  No Responses »
Oct 272010
 

Back in August we wrote a post about a Star Trek parody being published on YouTube called Phat Trek. Having gone back to check recently, we are left to assume that Tiberius T. Crane has abandoned his search for the best weight loss supplements because there have been no new episodes published in about two months.

What’s disappointing is that the last thing yousee in the last episode posted is the phrase, “To Be Continued”. It’s reminiscent of another show that ended a season with a cliff-hanger and was canceled before the next season started.

This Week On Star Trek: Miri

 Episode Guide, Star Trek TOS  4 Responses »
Oct 272010
 

This week’s Star Trek episode is Miri, one of the most popular episodes in the show’s original run. The Enterprise encounters a planet that appears in every way to be an exact duplicate of Earth. The planet is populated entirely by children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.

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Caption Contest results

 Caption Contest, Star Trek TNG  No Responses »
Oct 262010
 

While watching the TNG episode “Data’s Day” we discovered that we still really enjoy the scene where Beverly is attempting to teach Data to dance. When she tells him to “smile, act like you’re enjoying yourself”, Data pastes this simulated grin that makes that scene look like one of the best male enhancement advertisements in history.

Data and Beverly dancing

We featured this image as our one and only Caption Contest a while back and the official winner is “Mollie”, the only person to bother responding.

Congratulations, Mollie. Unfortunately, given the low resonse rate of the last caption contest, it is not likely that we’ll be doing another one in the foreseeable future.

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Back To The Future 25th Anniversary

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Oct 262010
 

Back To The FutureToday is October 26, and that means that today is the 25th anniversary of the original release of Back To The Future. In celebration of this event, today Universal Studios is releasing the 25th anniversary Blue Ray of the movie, complete with 2 hours of special features, which include some deleted scenes of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly before Michael J. Fox was hired for the part.

One of the things that we would like to see is all three movies spliced together at the frames where they overlap so that they form one long movie. With the advent of Blue Ray, there is now a medium capable of holding a six hour movie.

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