22 January 2017 FWS Armory: ROCKET GUNS by Yoel he 60's were a great time to be alive, the Space Age was carried us to the stars on the wings of the Saturn 5 rockets and the label of...
호버카는 SF소설 작품에 나오는 이동용 차량이다. 현재의 자동차와 같은 방식으로 사용되는 이동 수단인데, 보통의 차량처럼 조종을 해야한다. 차이점은 나는 효과뿐이다. 실제 날 수는 없으나, 추진력을 사용해 지면으로부터 약간 떠 있게 된다. 반중력 원리 같은 것이 사용되어서 일반 차량에서 발생하는 마찰력을 없애게 된다. 공기부양차와는 달리 먼지를 날리지 않는다. 현실에서는 수면이나 평평한 땅위를 떠서 ...
Strange Deep-Sea Diving Suits "QUANTUM SHOT" #829 Link - article by Simon Rose and Avi Abrams Under Pressure - and Enjoying It This time, we thought we’d take an in-depth look at diving...
If you ever wanted to shred the air (and pedestrians) in your wake, here is your chance. Why attach propeller to a perfectly normal car? Because you can! Because you can rid the car of transmission, clutch and brakes. Because you can utilize air power and powerful aircraft engines, gain lots of traction and never have to worry about wheelspins or getting stuck in snow or mud. Some of these cars are even today seen running at the shows (with onlookers keeping a respectable distance). Most models ...
sociology-oriented SF First Published In: 1953, Modern... good SF First Published In: Mar-61, The Writer Collection(s)... possible SF plots that deal with the future First Published In: 19...
During the 19th and into the first part of the 20th century, nothing provoked a deadlier fear than fire. Cities from coast to coast suffered major fire calamities. San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Boston were each plagued with several large fires. The earliest defenses were leather buckets filled with water and transferred from hand to hand, with each then thrown onto the flames. These were followed by a wheeled apparatus fitted with a hand-operated pump, forcing water through a hose and on...
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And so, I have for you, that reliable well of SF adventure (and often mediocrity), the latest Ace Double. This particular one features two wildly different tales, and yet, both have an air of age about them (in a creaky-jointed way, not a venerable one) that ensures that neither will be stories for the ages. Nevertheless, they scratch an itch while we wait for NASA ...
I've been thinking again about the idea that we need a web application that contrasts the daily content of our newsfeeds with aggregated statistics pertaining to the news's topics. For instance, we're inundated with news items about violence and crime, while in fact most forms of crime have been dropping (at least in Canada) for several decades. People perceive that the world is getting steadily worse, where in fact by most measures (such as democracy, literacy, childhood mortality etc.) globally things are getting better. I should have propose ...
From the critics ; Library Journal · In the fifth installment of this popular sf detective series, private investigator Jake Cardigan again takes on the notorious Tek drug lords in his attempt to rescue a kidnapping victim. A TV movie based on the series should increase…Read more ; Publishers Weekly · The fifth entry in Star Trek veteran Shatner's science fiction detective series ( TekLab ; Tek Vengeance ) features all the elements that have made the other episodes so successful and so emi...