Your Sunday Sci-Fi Science Fix

Since most of your Sci-Fi movie and television news makers are busy sacrificing virgins or puppies or practicing whatever religion allows them the supernatural powers to get rich and famous, mostly producing crap, Sunday can be a desert planet of news, barren and lifeless. But all is not lost. Remember,...

November 15th, 2009 | Read More

Scientists Calculate How Many Alternate Universes We Can Screw With

As a part of the lovely system of things that underlies and ultimately controls this holographic illusion we call reality, the Quantum Mechanics, Many Worlds theory is plum and ripe with delicious Sci-Fi goodness. You can’t swing a bagful of tribbles around without striking a Sci-Fi movie or book...

October 19th, 2009 | Read More

Scientists Hastening Our Doom By Creating Artificial Evil

You knew it had to happen. The essential component has been missing. Sure, we are well on our way in creating and building giant, speedy and hungry, spine chewing, skull stomping, gear stuffed agents of Armageddon. The problem has been, once we give them autonomy, they’ll still be singular soldered...

August 19th, 2009 | Read More

Canadian Nerds Develop Math Equation For Surviving The Zombocalypse

As the day approaches when you are forced to live in your boarded up basement, clinging to your last can of cat food while reliving the bittersweet memory of having to pummel Uncle Stan to death after he tried to gnaw off your foot, you might be considering a little high end, nerd style computation to...

August 17th, 2009 | Read More

Death Robots Personal Arsenal Nearly Complete

In the science guys ever vigilant search for new and interesting ways to kill their neighbors, comes this most recent and terrifying addition to our future killer robots arsenal of destruction. Once satisfied to just mow us down with heavy weaponry, swiss cheesing us in a massive hail of depleted uranium,...

August 5th, 2009 | Read More

The Truth About EATR

Recently, I wrote a little post about a DARPA funded robot project that featured some Sci-Fi drama queen embellishment. One of the principal propeller-heads behind the project has written us to set the record straight. EATR does not in fact hunt and eat humans. EATR is a peaceful, grazing kind of robot,...

July 22nd, 2009 | Read More

DARPA Funds Flesh Eating EATR Robot

Once again, just because we have the money to build these things and the dark and evil inner thoughts to conceive them, doesn’t mean we should be building them. Science Fiction writers have for years been telling horrific tales of our machines deciding that mankind is no longer needed thank you. It’s...

July 10th, 2009 | Read More

New Study Shows E.T. Has Many Homes

A new study called, get ready Nerds, “A thermodynamic basis for prebiotic amino acid synthesis and the nature of the first genetic code,” compiled by Ralph Pudritz and Paul Higgs at McMaster University in Canada is claiming that life in the Universe may be inevitable where there are the basic...

July 9th, 2009 | Read More

Sewer Creature From Your Sci-Fi Nightmares Is Real And Really Gross

In Raleigh, North Carolina, something wet and writhing, fresh from a B or C or even D Sci-Fi midnight movie madness is lurking in the sewers. We have the video. You’re thinking as you watch this,“Dude, this cannot be real”, as you make funny faces and fight the volcanic re-emergence...

July 7th, 2009 | Read More

Construction Begins On First Consumer Level Spaceport

In the past, if you wanted to go to Space, the word was study, study, study. In addition, you had to be virtually physically perfect or had to be teacher of the year or something like that. In the past, the inky blackness of the final frontier was beyond the hopes and dreams of a mere mortal like myself....

June 20th, 2009 | Read More

Mind Reading Device Not Required To Measure My Reaction To Megan Fox

In the category of “Oh My God What Are They Thinking”, science comes this dreadful and frightening advance into figuring out just what is floating around in the human mind. An unveiling of tech at the World (Mad) Science Festival in New York reveals just how close we are to digging into thoughts...

June 17th, 2009 | Read More

Russian Scientists Flirt With A Possible Sci-Fi Style Disaster

Intellectual curiosity is a wonderful thing. It has brought us happily out of the caves. The problem with scientists and their curiousity is that there is no off switch. No one has the power to impose wisdom. If an experiment is illegal or unpopular in one place, scientists just do it someplace else....

June 11th, 2009 | Read More

Pentagon Propellerheads Take First Steps Toward Morphing Robotic Killers

Researchers funded by mega science fund DARPA or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are slowly and incredably making progress on a Robert Patrick style metal morphing Terminator. From Signal magazine via Wired. Some incriminating quotes. “morphing aircraft and ground vehicles, uniforms that...

June 9th, 2009 | Read More

Those Engineering Germans Bring Dreamy Sci-Fi Tech To The Real

The absolutely pimptastic propellerheads at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems in Germany have created an embedded OLED eyeglass display that beams images right onto your freaking retina and will actually read your eyeball movements and allow you to manipulate menus and select stuff....

June 3rd, 2009 | Read More

CyberDyne’s IT Guy On Being Out Of The Loop

Somewhere out in the real world, in some nondescript mini mall or faceless industrial park, a corporation just like the fictitious Cyberdyne is accidentally engineering our doom by big metal things with teeth. All of this will be oblivious to the bosses of this fictitious Cyberdyne. Each little piece...

May 26th, 2009 | Read More

Warp Drive Propulsion on the Horizon?

Marc Millis, former head of NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, explains in this video how it might be possible to achieve superluminal travel using our current understanding of the universe. All I know is, sign me up for that please! This guy seems to know what he’s talking about...

May 16th, 2009 | Read More

HumanKind In A Solar Perspective

Astronomer Thierry Legault shot these pictures with his Takahashi TOA-130 refractor telescope and a Canon 5D Mk II along with a few other astronomy and camera doodads. These images were captured soon after launch and show the shuttle Atlantis alone and the Atlantis and Hubble as they cross the face...

May 15th, 2009 | Read More

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

Tired of your enslavement to our cruel, sprocket filled, titanium encased robotic overlords? Well now, from the land of the rising sun, home of strange devices and beautiful beguiling women, comes your chance to end that silly resistance to smooth white plastic encasement and cool blue limb accentuation. Coming...

April 10th, 2009 | Read More

Six Volunteers Test Mars Mission Psychology

Four Russians and two other Europeans have begun a 105 day stay in a habitat located in Russia to test the human psychological response to extreme close quarters isolation. Each volunteer will have a small sleeping area and be able to bring books, dvd’s and a laptop with them. All supplies are...

March 31st, 2009 | Read More

Kepler Spacecraft To Hunt For Alien Earths

When the predictions of a million Science Fiction novels and movies are about to come true, it demands a post here at SciFiCool. Plus, the alien parasite grafted to my primary motor cortex demands it. I am powerless to resist. The Kepler is a 600 million dollar craft that blasted off from Cape Canaveral...

March 7th, 2009 | Read More