Posts tagged as Blade Runner
Don't Do This, Harrison Ford
Film newsy site Twitchfilm reports that Harrison Ford is "in early talks" for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner sequel. You might remember Blade Runner as the stunning poetic meditation on the ultimate impermanence of existence. It is a film that says "we cannot possibly know how things will turn out." Except now we will. READ MORE
Why We Should Not Build Self-Conscious Robots
"We should not unnecessarily increase the amount of conscious suffering in the universe." READ MORE
The Horton Plains Slender Loris Shouldn't Even Bother Trying To Lie To Scientists
It's definitely nice to learn that a species thought to be extinct for 65 years is still on the planet. Specially one as cool and freaky-looking as the Horton Plains slender loris, which was recently found and photographed, for the first time ever, in a jungle in Sri Lanka by the Zoological Society of London. Where has this short-limbed, huge-eyed nocturnal primate been hiding all this time? We'll have the answer soon. With those giant peepers, that thing doesn't stand a chance of keeping any secrets from the hot new eye-tracking lie-detector system developed by psychologists at the University of Utah. Says Gerald Sanders, of the company, Credibility Assessment Technologies, that is now commercializing the system: READ MORE
Soon Every Classic Movie Will Have A Lego Analogue
Because why not, here is the climactic scene from Blade Runner as rendered in Lego. Is it really just Tuesday? [Via]
Dr. Carolyn Porco: So Much More Awesome Than Anyone
Keith Richards may have just been replaced as the no. 1 ranked coolest human being on the planet. Judging from a fascinating article in today's Science Times, Dr. Carolyn Porco, who monitors the cameras on the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn for the past five years, seems pretty tough to beat. READ MORE
