Believe it or not, vFx superstar Freddiew has recently ran into an alien, and was surprisingly able to film the whole encounter from a third-person perspective! No special effects software was used in the making of this video. None at all.
If you’re a science geek and you aren’t watching Dr. Kaku’s Universe, prepare to spend a few hours catching up.
Over on Big Think, theoretical physicist at C.U.N.Y. and popular radio host and television personality Michio Kaku answers reader questions about physics and futuristic science. This week he tackles Star Trek’s “photon torpedo” and talks about improving efficiency in space travel with the microwave rocket.
You mean I can’t annihilate the enemy with my flashlight? But… that was my back-up plan. Damn you, Star Trek!
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A few weeks ago, we’ve presented you the first episode of College Humor’s new hilarious Sci-Fi web series, Troopers. Now, CH has released three new episodes to the series, and they are all as hilarious as the first one. Check ’em out!
Mind Trick
Coffee Run
Interrogation
Everybody’s favorite little robot is in trouble! Another awesome t-shirt design from our pals @ Splitreason.
“Ode to the Brain” is the ninth episode in the Symphony of Science music video series. Through the powerful words of scientists Carl Sagan, Robert Winston, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Bill Nye, and Oliver Sacks, it covers different aspects the brain including its evolution, neuron networks, folding, and more. The material sampled for this video comes from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk, Vilayanur Ramachandran’s TED Talk, Bill Nye’s Brain episode, BBC’s “The Human Body”, Oliver Sachs’ TED Talk, Discovery Channel’s “Human Body: Pushing the Limits”, and more.
