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NASA’s Retro Space Tourism Posters
Stuck for holiday ideas this year? NASA might be able to help. The world-famous organization has commissioned three colorful new posters from Seattle-based design agency Invisible Creature, promoting three (fictional) space tours. Commissioned by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the posters tease a grand tour of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, as well as a trip to see the exploding geysers of Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest moon. Full Story at Gay Star News
Archie Comics: Jughead Is Asexual
The Archie comics reboot has to be one of the biggest surprises in the comics industry of the last few years. Ever since the publisher dropped the comics code authority and began diversifying its approach to Archie and his friends, Archie has become one of the best comics around—and now it’s going a step further by revealing Jughead’s asexuality. The revelation won’t play a major part in this week’s Jughead #4, but just come up in a matter-of-fact conversation between Jughead and a fellow student, as revealed by Comic Book Resources. Full story at IO9
For Writers: The Future of Religion
A bit of a hot topic today – is there religion in your future? Sci fi has a long and sketchy history of dealing with religion. In many stories of the future, religion fades away in the face of reason. In others, it becomes a driving force. And yes, sometimes Sci Fi writers even create their own religions. And we all know how that ends. So my questions today: As a writer, do you include religion in your sci fi, and if so, what’s it like in the future? Will our current religions continue to predominate, will they fade away, … Read more
Me Me Monday!
Welcome to ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post, so I can also share it over to our FB page (as opposed to this discussion group). –If you want, send me your book announcement info at … Read more
Marvel and DC Need to Make Films About These 13 LGBTIQ Superheroes
It’s a week before Deadpool is released, and both star Ryan Reynolds and director Tim Miller have promised they will not shy away from his pansexual flirtatious attitude. But there are plenty of other LGBTI superheroes out there, all ready to be chosen as the next star in a DC and Marvel flick. 13. Constantine (DC) A long running character in the DC universe Constantine finally got his own ongoing series in the New 52. It was his time in the Hellblazer comics that revealed a previous relationship with a man. There is an argument that his bisexuality should not … Read more
News: Planet Poltergeist
The International Astronomical Union has announced the names of a slew of exoplanets and stars as chosen by worldwide public ballot. Enter exoplanet Poltergeist, as nominated by an Italian group. Also new to the nomenclature galaxy is the star Cervantes (Spain) and the exoplanet Galileo (Netherlands). The IAU writes: The votes are in — the names of 19 ExoWorlds (14 stars and 31 exoplanets orbiting them) have been chosen by public vote in the NameExoWorlds contest, and accepted by the IAU. Reflecting the truly international interest in astronomy, over half a million votes from 182 countries and territories contributed to … Read more
The Rise of Humankind, In One Mesmerizing Map
Today, human influence has transformed almost every part of the globe. But looking at the span of human history, this wasn’t the case until quite recently. That’s one of the many lessons from a series of fascinating maps and charts from WorldPopulationHistory.org, which shows the explosive growth of the world’s human population from 1 CE (1 AD) to the present and into the future. Each of the dots in the map below indicates 1 million people, with some of the dots placed in the middle of a more spread-out population. The video demonstrates how the world population grew from only … Read more
