Here, have the official poster for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Via Official Star Wars Twitter.

Looks cool.

Sword and selfies on the Red Planet

#nomakeup #naturalskin
Source: Twitter.

Don't you just love interplanetary selfies?

This is accurate

I'm bored and know just enough about how to use MS Paint to get by.

Yet more books

Different books, same shitty picture quality. Where the books in the previous post were all military SF, these are just a mix of SF.

The "bookcase" in picture #1 is just a cheapo wheeled table I repurposed because it had shelves and I could get my hands on it, lol. The books in the second and third pictures are sitting on the headboard of my bed with the stereo and speakers doubling as bookends. The books themselves are just too tall to fit on that bookcase.

It's certainly an assorted collection, isn't it? I tend to favor SF that's more action and adventure oriented. I'm not into works that are deeply philosophical or requires a degree in physics to grok.

The Thirteenth Doctor's new clothes

Source: Doctor Who Twitter.

New Star Wars: The Last Jedi poster

(via the official Star Wars Twitter)

The Most Interesting Captain in Starfleet

"I don't always drink tea. But when I do, it's Earl Grey, hot."


(It's a parody of those Dos Equis commercials)

I'll just be over here, gathering up my quarters

Retroist's FB.

You better believe that if I ever won the lottery I'd hunt down and buy one of these babies. The game could be hot shit, but it's Star Trek, so I'd still want it.

By George, I think he's got it!

Artist: Earl Norem.

I wonder if The Doctor saved the city?

(via browsethestacks)

"Jesse, we have to make more monsters!"

Credit: Lloyd Birmingham.

On the next Breaking Bad...Walter White continues his work on creating better blue skinned monsters while Jesse Pinkman just shouts "science, bitch!" for the entire hour for no reason at all.

(via scificovers)

He would be the most unluckiest redshirt ever.

Five minutes into the first episode, he dies.

Via reddit.

I really like this Rogue Trader picture

(via Lexicanum)

I dig the Age of Sail/pirate vibe with their outfits. The old fashioned (treasure?) map is a nice touch too.

Space Station by Long-Pham

Credit: Long-Pham.

I always did like Kirk's uniform in Star Trek: The Motion Picture

(via Memory Alpha)

The TMP uniforms were pretty swanky and well, let's face it, fit the polyester era of science fiction perfectly. The uniforms were apparently one-piece, which I imagine was a pretty annoying thing when you needed to use the bathroom or just changing in and out of.

(via Memory Alpha)

The sleeveless version was pretty cool as sort of a "casual-wear" uniform. It looks like this one might not be a one-piece, but the hem of the tunic might just be hiding it.

Galactica 1980 was such a great show

Check out this vintage ad heralding electronic mail as the wave of the future!

Clearly, that was before spam came along.

via Gizmodo.

I like how it looks like that guy just shit his pants because a letter just magically appeared in front of him. I bet he switched to decaf after that. It's interesting to see an ad from major tech company for email, but the way the ad describes it, email was really much more appealing than it is now. Back then, it was a useful method to keep all departments of a corporation in-touch and informed, nowadays it's mostly just spam and social media notifications. Back then, it was the wave of the future. Now, it's as mundane as the phone.

I like about the ad is the way it talks up the usefulness of email as a method for making businesses run faster and better and it most likely was and still is. Something I've noticed however, is that the lack of email addresses. The ad talks about sending mail from terminal to terminal(s), but makes no mention of whether or not email address existed. Wikipedia doesn't have an answer, but I think addresses probably didn't exist back then. It's possible that each terminal had it's own ID and sending an email to one worked similar to a modern email address.

I can imagine what it must have been like back then. A person working for a company needed to run something by someone in another department (maybe the head of a design team to the head of the accounting department) and instead of picking up the phone or physically going to that person's office (if that was even possible), they would pop off an email instead. The biggest advantage I see with that is that you wouldn't need to have all of your employees and departments in one building. I think a lot of tech companies nowadays have their headquarters set up in a campus format with multiple buildings as opposed to a single skyscraper. Hell, you wouldn't even need to have them all in the same city. Distributive business model?

I also like the way the ad is drawn. The way the artist set the desk and office up, it looks like what an one back then probably would have looked. It also presents an interesting contrast with the ad's pronouncement of the "Office of the Future". He has a stapler and a tape dispenser, both of which would likely be rendered obsolete in the Office of the Future and eventually in real life, since physical paperwork is probably dwindling in the age of tablets and touch screens. I don't know whether they still use corded phones (though, all the TV shows and movies seem to think so), but that one right there is outdated as all hell. The two (three?) picture frames are a nice touch, adding a touch of personability to the businessman, something we don't see much in popular culture or real life. Is that an ashtray in front of the double picture frame, though? That's how you can tell this ad is old - that people were allowed to smoke inside an office building instead of outside.

All in all, it's a nice snapshot of what a typical 1970s office probably looked like and that fits in nicely with my interest in the 70s tech industry.

Hit them with my sword!

via Dr Poxo.

 And he's probably score a critical hit with it too.

Best bit of Wikipedia vandalism ever

Haw haw!

And no, I didn't do it. :P I've only committed one act of vandalism on there and it was about Steve Jobs.

This blew my goddamn mind

Oh the things you find on the internet!

Jay over on EXONAUTS! posted this after finding it on Universe Today. After scooping what was left of my brain off the floor and putting it back in my head, I thought I'd post it here. It's a stereograph of Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula created by a Finnish fellow named J-P Metsävainio. He has a website and blog displaying his other awesome works.

Freaking awesome!

Holy frak! This is the greatest Star Trek thing ever!

Behold! The most awesome thing ever to awesome!

Click to embiggen.

By dusty-abell, who is some kind of mad genius and a Class-A Trekkie. This is just mindblowing. Wow.