The new Ghostbusters movie is still half a year away, but at least now we’re starting to get teased with some pretty sweet images. Yesterday, we saw our first official cast picture . Now feast your eyes on four posters, one for each of our new heroes.
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A fantastic live action short set in the Metroid universe by Rainfall Films and director Sam Balcomb, featuring Jessica Chobot from Nerdist and America Young (Halo 5.) This is from the same people who made that amazing Wonder Woman fan film we featured a few years ago.
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This is hands down the best and most hilarious commercial of all time. I’m dead serious here. Just watch the thing. Watch it. Now.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to find a unicorn to start an ice cream business.
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Wow. Just wow.
LEGO Dimensions fuses 14 fan-favorite universes from film, television and games together with the principal actors voicing their characters from almost every property to lend authenticity to the game’s epic story. Check out some of the famous voice talent in LEGO Dimensions:
— Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd who played Marty McFly and Doc Brown, respectively, in the Back to the Future films have rerecorded and reprised their roles in LEGO Dimensions.
— From The LEGO Movie, Chris Pratt returns as Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as Wyldstyle, Alison Brie as UniKitty and Charlie Day as Benny, among other actors from the film.
— Chris Pratt is Owen Grady and Irrfan Khan is Simon Masrani from Jurassic World, along with other members of the film’s original cast.
— Peter Capaldi is the Twelfth Doctor, Jenna Coleman is Clara Oswald, Michelle Gomez is Missy from Doctor Who, and many other original actors from the long running British science fiction television series have also returned to voice their characters in the game as well.
— From the world of DC Comics, Troy Baker is Batman and Tara Strong is Harley Quinn.
— Stephen Merchant is Wheatley and Ellen McLain is GLaDOS from the Portal video game series.
— And as part of the original LEGO Dimensions story, Joel McHale is X-PO, the game’s robot guide, and Gary Oldman is Lord Vortech, the evil mastermind who seeks to control the LEGO Multiverse.
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1-Captain America: The First Avenger
2- Agent Carter (Marvel One-Shot) – Included with Iron Man 3
3- Agent Carter Season 1
4- Iron Man
5- The Incredible Hulk
6- Iron Man 2
7- The Consultant (Marvel’s One-Shot) – Included on the Thor Blu-Ray
8- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer (Marvel’s One-Shot) – Included on the Captain America: The First Avenger Blu-ray
9- Thor
10- The Avengers
11- Item 47 (Marvel’s One-Shot) – Included on The Avengers Blu-Ray
12- Iron Man 3
13- All Hail the King (Marvel’s One-Shot) – Included on the Thor: The Dark World Blu-Ray
14- Agent of Shield (Season 1 – Episode 1-7)
15- Thor: The Dark World
16- Agent of Shield (Season 1 – Episode 8-15)
17- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
18- Agent of Shield (Season 1 – Episode 16-22)
19- Guardians of the Galaxy
20- Marvel’s Daredevil on Netflix
21- Agent of Shield (Season 2 – Episode 1-19)
22- Avengers: Age of Ultron
23- Agent of Shield (Season 2 – Episode 20-22)
24- Ant-Man
25- Captain America: Civil War
26- Doctor Strange
27- Guardians of the Galaxy 2
28- Thor: Ragnarok
29- Black Panther
30- Avengers: Infinity War – Part I
31- Captain Marvel
32- Marvel’s Inhumans
33- Avengers: Infinity War – Part II
[Source: Fast_Is_Better]
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Artist's vision of a colony on Mars
NASA Ames Research Center
It’s a popular sci-fi plot: Earth sets up colonies on Mars; Mars colonies grow, developing their own technologies and culture; Mars colonies rebel against overbearing Earth government, demanding independence. It happens in Total Recall, in Babylon 5, in Red Mars.
But what if we gave Mars its independence right from the get-go? Rather than giving future colonies to governments or corporations, Jacob Haqq-Misra thinks we should let Martian colonists develop their own values, governments, and technologies, with minimal interference from Earth. Haqq-Misra is an astrobiologist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, a non-profit organization that promotes international unity in space.
Not only would Haqq-Misra's strategy preclude any Martian wars for independence, but cultural independence could help Martians think differently enough to solve problems that Earth continues to struggle with—such as working together to fight global environmental problems, or making long-term plans for the future of humanity.
Instead of getting divided by nations or plundered by industry, says Haqq-Misra, “maybe Mars is more valuable in trying to seed the second incidence of civilization.”
The plan that he lays out in an essay in New Space has five main provisions:
Humans who leave Earth to permanently settle on Mars relinquish their planetary citizenship as Earthlings and claim a planetary citizenship as Martians.
Governments, corporations, and individuals of Earth cannot engage in commerce with Mars and cannot interfere with the political, cultural, economic, or social development of Martian civilization.
Scientific exploration may continue as long as it does not interfere with the development of civilization on Mars. Sharing of research and information between Mars and Earth is permitted only to pursue mutual scientific or educational goals.
The use of land on Mars will be determined exclusively by the citizens of Mars. No Earthlings may own or otherwise lay claim to land on Mars.
Any technology, resources, or other objects brought from Earth to Mars become permanent fixtures of the Martian civilization. Earthlings may not make any demands for resources on Mars.
There is some legal precedent. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which 103 nations (including the U.S. and Russia) are party to, prohibits any nation from claiming territory in space. The treaty “makes very clear that a colony on Mars could never become a colony in the classical legal sense of the word, like the U.S. was originally a colony of the U.K.,” says Frans von der Dunk, a space law professor at the University of Nebraska.
Screenshot from 'The Martian' official trailer
The Martian, which hits theaters in October, is a great reminder of all the things that can go wrong on another planet.
Nevertheless, under the current legal system, von der Dunk says American colonists on Mars would still probably fall under U.S. jurisdiction.
Sailors in international waters are expected to follow the rules of their ship's flag, and astronauts must do the same. The rules even hold when they're not on board the ship—for example, when the Apollo astronauts roamed around the moon, or when astronauts on the International Space Station do spacewalks, they're still subject to U.S. laws.
But what about when the excursion is longer than a few hours? On the ISS, where astronauts spend months at a time, participating countries have worked up their own quasi legal system, which is pretty similar to Earth's. If an American astronaut were to hit a Russian astronaut over the head, for example, first the U.S. would have the right to determine whether a criminal act was committed. If the U.S. doesn't take action, then he could be tried under Russian jurisdiction.
The rules could be different when we're talking about pioneers who venture to another planet with no intention of returning home. Still, says von der Dunk, “You cannot simply say 'I'm no longer a citizen of the U.S.' It's not for you to decide.”
Illustration Showing a Mars Colony with Living Quarters and Solar Panels
Mars One
He thinks that if Americans are able to set up self-sustaining communities on Mars, they'll consider themselves Americans and abide by U.S. laws—at least at first. “At some point in time, they will not like that anymore,” says von der Dunk. “They won't feel like they are American or Russian or wherever they come from, they'll feel like they are Martian. They will say, 'Listen, we don't want to pay taxes anymore, and we want to develop our own legal system.'”
Cultural evolution is inevitable in small populations that splinter off from Earth. A lot of Earthly traditions just won't apply, and the Martians will develop their own jokes, rules, and customs. Haqq-Misra's suggestion of limiting contact with Earth would simply speed up that transition.
Von der Dunk thinks it would be difficult to set up a colony as a blank slate, as Haqq-Misra proposes. Mars colonists would carry with them a lot of legal and cultural baggage that biases their ideas about how society should work. But over time, Martian culture could change dramatically. "It's hard to think outside the box there, but one could think that because Mars is so different from Earth, that when they tear themselves away from traditional legal structures, they could develop something very new," says von der Dunk. "This is all very hypothetical."
There are other potential problems. Getting to Mars ain’t easy, and there are a lot of ways to die once you get there. Unfortunately, Earth's help won’t come cheap: these days it costs about $10,000 to send one pound of supplies to the space station, and that's a much closer, easier trip than Mars. Without the financial incentives of Martian communities, resources, and/or business, nations and private companies aren’t likely to rally around the Free Mars idea. Haqq-Misra’s plan relies on either extremely thorough planning to make sure the colonies are completely self-sufficient, or generous donations to send resupply missions to Mars.
Haqq-Misra says he’s not holding his breath for anyone to jump on this idea. Still, he says, since everyone from NASA to SpaceX and Mars One has their sights set on visiting or colonizing Mars in the coming decades, it's important to think about.
“Hopefully it’s going to instigate people to have a longer-term vision for whatever we do on Mars.”
When four-year-old Sawyer Dunlop first heard Groot speak in the amazing Guardians of the Galaxy movie, he instantly connected with the character. Sawyer suffers from Dyspraxia. A condition that affects a child’s motor functions and can impair their ability to speak, among other problems. Sawyer’s Dad, Josh, started noticing some amazing changes in his son after they saw the film. You can read the full message above in the pic, but here it is for those who don’t want to squint:
Hi James…This is in response to your recent post about Guardians being released a year ago and the effect it has had on my son. My son is four years old and has a condition known as dyspraxia, which not only interferes with motor skills but speech as well. When Guardians came out Sawyer could only say about three words and would communicate to his mother and I by other means. When he saw Groot, something clicked inside him and he connected with him on a level I haven’t seen. He began to mimic him and he would use the word “Bah” for a lot, but after he saw the film, he would change the tone in which he said it to convey a different meaning. He would also start saying Groot for many things as well. Since that, he was finally able to go to a speech class and it has helped amazingly. I just wanted to thank you though, for a script and movie that was written so well that a four year old, three at that time, could connect with someone who had the same language barrier.
We all knew Guardians was a magical movie. The truth is, we just didn’t know HOW magical until now. And I guess that part at the end of the movie when Groot says “WE are Groot” rings with a lot more truth than any of us knew at the time.
Faith restored in humanity for another week.
(H/T to Neatorama, story via James Gunn’s Facebook)
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This isn’t going to look so hot on a stainless steel fridge, but if you’ve got the white version, the FreezerBoy Refrigerator Magnets will give it some gamer appeal. It’s a set of magnets meant to emulate the look of a GameBoy, with the screen measuring 16inches by 12 inches. Being magnets, they’ll leave no trace on your fridge when you remove them, and at $20 for the set of 6, you’re looking at a pretty inexpensive way to add some geeky flair to your home.
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Watch as She Thor fights a zombified Hulk in this epic Marvel fan film by Youtuber Miltonius Arts.
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Celebrities visiting a hospital has been a cool thing to do for a while now: Christian Bale and Chris Pratt have been known to stop by to cheer up kids. The latest feel-good story comes with the new cast of Ghostbusters, who stopped by Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center in Boston yesterday.
Beware! Supernatural spoiler below! After just finishing its tenth season, Supernatural’s stars and writers attended San Diego Comic Con to hype up season eleven and give fans a chance to ask their…
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Every time the beautiful Regina rejects his advances, James pushes a red button and tries again, all the while unaware of the reality and consequences of his actions. Directed by Devon Avery. Selected for the Sploid Short Film Festival, a celebration of coolest short films and the filmmakers that make them.
[Sploid]
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Ages ago, Microsoft was talking about Minecraft and the HoloLens, specifically being able to play the game on real-world surfaces, among other things. The idea that a player could have their favorite world open on their living room floor, kitchen table, or outside was a nice one, but hard to wrap one's head around. Today, it became a LOT clearer how it will work!
At E3, a live demonstration of how Minecraft with the HoloLens works was shown, and it is nothing short of mind-blowing. The in-game world was projected on the table on stage, and manipulated in real-time, in front of real people. Nothing I say after this will do it justice, so if you haven't already, click that video above, and prepare to be speechless!
So, now that interactive holograms (using Minecraft, no less!) are going to be a reality, how would you play Minecraft with it?
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