Fun fact: New York City had a pneumatic subway for a while. Built as a prototype in 1870, it ran under Broadway between Murray and Warren Streets. It was shut down and sealed in 1873, then accidentally rediscovered in 1912.

I’ll see your 50 years and raise you another 100 years. Pneumatic tube transport has been around since the mid 1800's.

The Virtual Telescope Project, a series of robotic and remotely-controlled telescopes run by astronomer Gianluca Masi of the of the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy at Clavius Base, managed to capture stunning footage of 2016 VA careening toward us.

Try Logan’s Run.

Versions of the hyper loop have appeared throughout sci-fi. I recollect seeing something like this in Gene Rodenberrys Planet Earth and Genesis II starring John Saxon as the original Dylan Hunt (later played by Kevin Sorbo in Andromeda) as well as in Logans Run film and Space:1999.  

It doesn’t need a remake, so, good.

Dammit. I am gonna miss the giggles when mass deploying macs and starting 30 up in a row.

My father was a carpenter, so I helped on many of his jobs. That includes a lot of shingling.

This isn’t targeted at normal PC users. It is targeted a time the creative tech sector that’s Apple has almost completely abandoned chasing the iOS money.

i’ve been tryign to pin down Giz’s shark jumping moment for a while now, but i think this may be it

i09 or not interested.

io9 gear and you might actually have a deal...

I don’t even know how to apologize for p51d007. They write things like this

48 comments at this time and more than a few of them are negative? Okay whatever that’s not that difficult to signal-jam. Of course your likes and replies will help out the signal jam so put in your likes and replies.

CFCs were banned, Certain HFCs were given a pass at the time.

Well, if we’re going to be pedantic, the planet isn’t permanent, nor the sun it orbits. In-context, one might read this to mean “for the foreseeable future”. If we insist on the most literal possible meaning in all words, and never take context into account, language becomes incredibly bewildering. (By “incredibly”, I…

You forgot Demon Seed (1977 Horror/SciFi) 

Certainly one if the weirdest slasher horror films was 1973's Wicked, Wicked, all but forgotten now. The entire movie is in split screen!