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futurism

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Retro-futurism, futures past, visions of the future   

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What are these gigantic spiral structures doing on the surface of Mars? [Space]


io9 22 May 2012, 12:20 am CEST

Recently released images of Mars' surface have revealed a number of coiled structures — some as much as 100 feet wide — spread across the planet's Athabasca Valles region [click for hi-res]. Research published in last month's issue of Science suggests that they're actually rare lava flows, similar to ones found here on Earth, only hundreds of times larger in scale. According to Wired, it's the first time the features have been spotted on the surface of Mars. More »

For Extreme Artist Stelarc, Body Mods Hint at Humans’ Possible Future [Interview]


io9 22 May 2012, 12:00 am CEST

Legendary Australian performance artist Stelarc is known for going to extremes, from aggressive voluntary surgeries and robotic third arms to flesh-hook suspensions and prosthetics. For more than four decades, he has used his body as a canvas for art on the very edge of human experience: He once ingested a "stomach sculpture" that could have killed him. More »

Jaw-dropping photo and video of yesterday's annular eclipse [Video]


io9 21 May 2012, 11:50 pm CEST

The Moon passed in front of the Sun yesterday, giving rise to a stunning solar eclipse visible across much of the world. A select few even got a rare glimpse of an annular (aka "ring of fire") eclipse — the first to be visible from the continental U.S. since 1984. More »

Make a sacrifice to this dark, terrifying magazine... before it rises and walks the Earth! [Crowdfund This]


io9 21 May 2012, 11:30 pm CEST

Now is your time to pledge your fealty to Nightmare Magazine — before it is fully manifested, and able to inhabit your brain with its raw terrors. The horrifying brainchild of John Joseph Adams, who's brought you Lightspeed Magazine and countless anthologies, Nightmare is poised to overwhelm you with the forces of darkness. More »

Vintage Disneyland character costumes were the fabric of nightmares [Holy Crap Wtf]


io9 21 May 2012, 10:45 pm CEST

There's something immensely jarring about pictures of retro Disneyland character costumes. Between the blank soulless eyes, rumpled fabric, and yellowing photographs, every one of these snapshots would not be out of place in a scrapbook bound with human bones. The park looks not unlike the underworld for fursuit enthusiasts. More »

First Video from the Third Season of Walking Dead Takes You to Prison! [Walking Dead]


io9 21 May 2012, 10:03 pm CEST

Take a look at the sets and cast from the next season of AMC's Walking Dead. Nobody outright says that they're in a prison, but it sure looks like one. Jeebus is it dark (and awesome(). Also someone said the Governor is coming, so you heard it — that's a promise! No more goddamn farm. Check it out. More »

Artist helps wife fight cancer by turning her into a sexy pulp warrior [This Is Awesome]


io9 21 May 2012, 9:39 pm CEST

Concept Artist Ron Miller (who often contributes to io9) wanted to celebrate his wife Judith's recent victory over cancer with something spectacular — something bold and glorious like the Planet Stories covers they both love. So they created Captain Judikha. Together they stitched a glorious vintage super suit and photoshopped Judikha fighting topless angels (maybe NSFW), giant robots, rescuing alien astronauts all while looking sexy as hell! Eat Judikha's ray gun blasts, cancer! More »

SpaceX clears Falcon 9 rocket for Tuesday morning launch [Space]


io9 21 May 2012, 8:57 pm CEST

Its first launch attempt was cut short less than a second before liftoff on Saturday morning, but private space transportation company SpaceX will be trying once again to send its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station early tomorrow morning. More »

Behold a bat house the size of a human home [Secret History]


io9 21 May 2012, 8:20 pm CEST

To combat the spread of malarial mosquitoes in Texas in the early 1900s, bacteriologist and fledermaus appreciator Dr. Charles Campbell of San Antonio built this massive bat house (which was one of several). This roost was on stilts so that the bats' nitrogen-rich guano could be collected as it plopped to the ground. More »

Game of Thrones Week 8: Siege Mentality [Tv Recap]


io9 21 May 2012, 8:00 pm CEST

Click here to read <em>Game of Thrones</em> Week 8: Siege Mentality
Sieges are a major part of warfare in Westeros — they're the reason for those stout castles, and a huge reason why dragons were such game-changers. Last night's episode of Game of Thrones was all about people preparing to be under siege. More »

Hot Chip's channels Mork from Ork in this bewildering new Egg fetish music video [Video]


io9 21 May 2012, 7:47 pm CEST

Terence Stamp and his team of sexy gray sweat-suited teens are ready to gyrate and grind — to celebrate beautiful white eggs with pink nipples? Hot Chip's lastest music video for "Night And Day" is admittedly less plasma barfy as their "I Feel Better" video, but it's still humping the madness that makes Hot Chip special. Watch, and then please tell us what it means! More »

10 Painful Insect Stings, as Measured by Science [Daily 10]


io9 21 May 2012, 7:33 pm CEST

Getting stung by a fire ant hurts. Getting stung by a tarantula hawk hurts much, much more. But how much more does it hurt, exactly? And where does something like a honey bee rank on the pain scale? More »

What to call those weird stairs that lead nowhere on the side of your building [Video]


io9 21 May 2012, 6:50 pm CEST

I love this strange, meandering little video from 2009 about pieces of the urban landscape that appear to serve absolutely no function whatsoever. Artist Akasegawa Genpei decided to do an art project devoted them. He dubs these items "Thomassans," and it's worth watching his video to find out why. More »

A sneak peek at Enormous, a giant monster graphic novel from Image Comics [Kaiju]


io9 21 May 2012, 6:30 pm CEST

Courtesy of Image Comics, here's a preview of Enormous, an upcoming graphic novel about massive fauna — such as creatures who appear to be mutated antelopes — suddenly appearing to grind civilization into paste. This 64-page oversized survival horror comic hits stores on July 5, and we've got an exclusive sneak peek. Here's the rundown: More »

Lies You've Been Told About the Pacific Garbage Patch [Video]


io9 21 May 2012, 6:05 pm CEST

You've probably heard of the "Pacific garbage patch," also called the "trash vortex." It's a region of the North Pacific ocean where the northern jet stream and the southern trade winds, moving opposite directions, create a vast, gently circling region of water called the North Pacific Gyre — and at its center, there are tons of plastic garbage. You may even have seen this picture of the garbage patch, above — right? Wrong. More »

This Week's TV: The Most Epic Game of Thrones Episode of All [Video]


io9 21 May 2012, 5:35 pm CEST

This coming week's episode of Game of Thrones could be one of the most lavish, insane spectacles ever put on television, and we've got all the details here. Other reasons not to throw out your television set: Awake's finale features the meeting you never expected. More »

Radiohead's Kid A and OK Computer, composed entirely as old school video games [Video]


io9 21 May 2012, 5:35 pm CEST

After releasing OK Computer, an album about technological malaise at the close of the 20th century, Radiohead released the spartan and sterile Kid A, an LP even more devoted to alienation. More »

Radiohead's Kid A, composed entirely as an old school video game [Video]


io9 21 May 2012, 5:35 pm CEST

After releasing OK Computer, an album about technological malaise at the close of the 20th century, Radiohead released the spartan and sterile Kid A, an LP even more devoted to alienation. More »

The first female aeronaut inspired the Mile High Club in 1784 [Secret History]


io9 21 May 2012, 5:11 pm CEST

You'd probably guess, if asked, that the first Mile High Club members were those dashing stunt pilots of the 1920s, who did things like play tennis on the wings of a plane. You'd be off by a century and a half. As soon as the very first woman took to the skies, people started having ideas. More »

The vast, abandoned salt mines that lurk beneath Detroit [Modern Ruins]


io9 21 May 2012, 4:40 pm CEST

Over 1,000 feet beneath the city of Detroit is a 1,500 acre sprawl of tunnels created by salt miners at the turn of the twentieth century. Over at Environmental Graffiti, there's a fascinating story about the rise and fall of Detroit as the great city of salt production. Discovered in the late nineteenth century, Detroit's salt deposits would prove lucrative — but only to the company with the engineering capabilities to actually drill down far enough to reach it. More »
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