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Movie Review: I, Robot

Warning: This essay is nothing but a huge spoiler. Leave now if you have any interest in seeing the movie,...

The Technological Singularity and the Chinese Room

Background Other than the volumes I speak indirectly, I don't say much about myself on this blog. Readers get to...

A Visit to Tatooine

Aleksandra Moorast: The driver stopped the car at the top of the hill and stepped out for a cigarette, turning...

Science Fiction and Leftism

When I was a kid, I used to love science fiction. At first, I read everything I could by Asimov,...

More Star Wars Political Tripe

"Only a Sith thinks in absolutes," said Obi-Wan, clearly thinking in absolutes. Professor Bainbridge opines that Lucas continues to betray...

Review: Event Horizon

Where can you buy a burrito in a dimension of 'Pure Evil'? Event Horizon was the movie which taught me...

Christianity Today: Alien vs. Predator

How does the modern Christian relate to a cheap knockoff monster-battle flick? And what would the creator of the universe say about that? My thoughts and musings.

Star Trek Cloaking Treaties

How do you keep peace with an aggressive enemy? Roddenbury shows us the way!

Anecdote About Making "Alien"

Somewhere I'd heard that the cast of "Alien" was caught completely unaware by the scene where the Alien burst out...

The Physics of Psychics

Among others, entertainment moguls like Gene Roddenbury and Stephen Spielberg like to present psychic phenomena as being "scientific", while deriding other (theistic) religious beliefs as "primitive". But what does science have to say about mind-reading? How does it work?

Gimme that Star Trek Religion!

Gene Roddenbury believed in a future free of religious beliefs. Well, not really. Just certain ones he didn't like.

Star Trek and Social Evolution

Our society continues to evolve, according to the immutable laws of science, towards a utopian ideal, right? Roddenbury thought so anyway. So did Marx.

Science Fiction or Magic?

Apparently Gene Roddenbury loved Science Fiction. It's a shame he didn't love science, and appeared to lack even the most elementary grasp of physics or astronomy.

Klingon Anyone?

There are those who argue our government should support every language spoken by it's constituents. Newsday reports that Multnomah Country,...

Why "The X-Files" Worked

A few thoughts after watching a "Cops"-style X-Files episode: (a) Dana conspires to make us believe Fox. There's an old...

"Terminator" Notes

Man, Random Observations is fluff-y today!... Several notes while watching "The Terminator": When "The Terminator" sees things, there are (Apple)...

Signs: Weapons?

Observations about M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs" and it's absense of weapons.

Signs: Miracles and Vi Lurvey

Warning: Minor spoilers. Mel Gibson's character undergoes a paradigm shift (change of mind) based on a "miracle" M. Night Shyamalan...

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