We have to remember that Psi was never seriously considered to be a real-world phenomena and was forced on SF by a single editor, John W. Campbell, who had all sorts of quaint notions (including many types of bigotry). With his demise, the topic was pushed back into fantasy where it always belonged, while those who…

The real conspiracy behind the moon landing faking was that the super-advanced computer that was used to render the CGI footage needed to create the fake moon landing was also a hoax by a team of scientists who promised such a super computer to the US government but really just gave them a room full of cabinets with…

You're a bit off the mark here.

Umm, not really surprising since elephants don't run as fast as horses...?

I think you're mistaken here. A private company has the capacity to do things better and faster, that's certainly true - but they don't always do. Companies are interested in money and maximizing shareholder value, and the space business is not for the short-sighted. It takes a visionary like Musk to realize this…

First of all, R&D is by no means finished. You can't just "use existing hardware". We don't have a ready made lander. The Apollo era hardware doesn't exist outside of museums. The plans are on paper; the casts, molds and tools used to create them were destroyed; and they're certainly not going to make a new copy of a…

It just occurred to me I've never seen a Delorean that was painted. I think Yellow quite suits it. Reminds me of those hovertaxis from The 5th Element.

Somebody didn't read the article closely.

That reminds me of an old SF short story, Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell.

Right on man! Tesla invented the death rays and power-broadcasting towers we all love and use everyday. What did Edison ever invent? some lightbulbs, movie cameras, and phonograph? who cares?

After their "martian meteorite with fossilized lifeforms" and their "arsenic-based bacteria" debacles, I wouldn't keep my hopes up. Whatever it is will turn out to be a disappointment.

I loved the "new" (old? it's a prequel after all) flight deck. Less like a WWII-era carrier, less bound to a flat surface, and more like what you'd expect a deck of a spaceship would look like, with gantries, cranes and elevators going every which way and many things moving in the background. It would be awesome if…

hey, I'm relieved that at least I didn't miss something obvious!

This.

The question of whether the internet will wake up is as much a question of "futurism" as the question of whether an earthquake will hit California next year. They're both about the future, perhaps, but they're not about human actions. You want to know what people are going to do in the future, ask a futurist. But the…

Aw, come on! The galactic usenet was the best part of AFUtD! especially if, like me, you've read it for the first the same just as you got acquainted with the real usenet. It was fun and realism be damned. And Gibson? sure, he made cyberspace sound cool and made us want to get there, but it's not like we're surfing by…

What makes you think they didn't have precise angle measurement or machine tools?

At a guess, the watermark was animated to make it harder to remove it.

You can say a lot of things about PKD's literary style, but "plausible" ain't one of them.