15 Real Science Stories That Would Make Great Sci-Fi Movies
If you're a movie fan in 2017, you're hard pressed to find many original sci-fi films. There are a lot more Alien: Covenants and Blade Runner: 2o49s than Ex Machinas. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just sometimes sci-fi fans want to experience something new, something fresh, something that's not in the Transformers expanded universe.
I mean, it's 2017. There are new planets and technologies being discovered every day. Surely some of them would make for the basis of a good sci-fi movie.
So on this week's podcast, Alex Schmidt puts together a panel to research as many new and groundbreaking science stories as possible and pitch them as sci-fi movies. He's joined live in New York at the Now Hear This podcast festival by Cracked's Brett Rader and Michael Swaim, and comedians Claudia Cogan and Negin Farsad to discuss sense vests, head transplants, robot vines and more.
Footnotes:
Wired: Lab-grown brain balls are starting to look more lifelike
TED: David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans?
New York Times: Microchip implants for employees? One company says yes
Trailer: The Thing With Two Heads
Vice: The Mir Space Station was a marvel, a clusterfuck, and an underdog hero
The Guardian: Space savers: astronaut urine could make supplies from nutrients to tools
Mirror: Scientists say humans should learn from pigeons to be better at work
TechCrunch: Meet the adorable robot camera Japan's space agency sent to the ISS
The Verge: These soft robots are inspired by plants and move like sentient vines
Cracked: 6 ways driverless cars are going to kill lots of people
Video: Drone speared at renaissance fair
Futurism: The world's largest and most powerful x-ray laser just went online
Space: Are solar sails the future of space travel?
Gizmodo: Hitchhiking robot lasts just two weeks in US because humans are terrible
Wired: Biometrics are coming, along with serious security concerns
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