If you’ve ever looked for Doctor Who cookie cutters then you know they are hard to find. I’m not sure if any official cookie cutters even exist. So what do you do when you want to make some cookies to stuff in your TARDIS cookie jar? Make your own cookie cutters of course. With these Doctor Who cookie cutters you could bake some amazing treats. These awesome custom made cookie cutters were made by Flickr user Nidaram. I especially love the K9 cutter. Nidaram made these for a friend’s Christmas present a couple of years back.
The set includes a Dalek, a TARDIS, a Slightly 3-D TARDIS, and K-9. It’s just hand-bent steel held together at the ends with two machine screws. I’d love to see what the cookies look like.
It’s more the little sad to many fans of space travel in the US that the space shuttle program has been retired. Right now American astronauts have no way to reach the International Space Station or leave Earth other than catching a ride with astronauts from other countries on their spacecraft. Another depressing final milestone in the shuttle program has been met this week with the last multiple shuttle shuffle of the program.
The space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour met nose-to-nose briefly for the final time for photos as they were moved between the vehicle assembly building and orbiter processing facility at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Atlantis was moved for the final time to be transformed from a flight-ready shuttle to a display to be put into a museum.
Presumably, the transformation has to do with removing any potentially hazardous materials from the shuttle. Atlantis should be delivered to the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex where it will spend the remainder of its days starting this November 2. Endeavour will end up at the California Science Center once it’s made museum-ready.
The superhero flick The Avengers was one of the biggest earning films of the year and proved so popular planning for a sequel commenced right away (if not before the movie was released.) If you’re a big fan of superhero movies, you’ll be excited to hear that the launch date for the sequel to The Avengers has been offered up.
It appears that the film is simply called The Avengers 2, and Joss Whedon will be returning to direct this one. The release date that has surfaced for now is May 1, 2015. Sadly, that’s nearly three years from now. I honestly thought the movie would come out as quickly as the studio could turn around another film. I guess one of the reasons it’s going to take a while for the film the hit theaters is that Iron Man star Robert Downey, Jr. is working hard on another blockbuster superhero film right now, and is currently shooting Iron Man 3.
Thankfully, we won’t have to wait as long to get our Marvel fix, as Iron Man 3′s expected launch date is May 3, 2013.
Man, it would be so awesome if Timelord police drove around in these. This TARDIS Delorean, or CARDIS (or TarDeLorean) is the most awesome car I have ever laid eyes on. I don’t know if it is bigger on the inside, but I am confident the Doctor will have no problem picking up hot new companions in this beauty.
By Doctor I mean the 11th. Wait, I mean Doc Brown. When it comes to DeLorean interiors, the whole bigger on the inside thing is really important too, given how cramped these things usually are.
This awesome piece of awesomeness is blowing my mind and I can’t believe that I never saw this before. If only it were real. Sadly it’s just some awesome artwork created by a guy named Pacta for a Worth1000 competition.
Get it? It’s a Geiger Counter made to look like it was created by H.R. Giger. I don’t know about you, but Giger’s Aliens creations creep me out. Therefore I could never use this. I would be too afraid that it would eat me from the hand up. Just let the radiation kill me.
If on the other, you hand want to check for signs of radiation on some alien world, then this Giger Geiger counter is for you. The base radioactive sensor electronics were purchased from Adafruit industries and then modded into a xenomorph by Steve D of Mad Art Lab.
It looks pretty amazing, and quite scary. And yes it does actually work as proven in the video. Now you can be safe from radiation and freak people out at the same time.
It’s time to make time a weapon with the 30-year action plot behind the upcoming action and science fiction film Looper in two international trailers that all but give away everything. Just as it was, essentially, with Total Recall, we’ve got everything we need to know the beginning, middle, and ending of the movie. What’s missing, and what makes it all worthwhile, is the action as it happens, and the science that explains the whole of the story.
Have a peek first at the international trailer you may have already seen, this one released over a month ago with many details about the plot and moments of revelation. If you’re worried about spoilers, this might be a good time to turn back. Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt play one man, thirty years between themselves, with both of their goals appearing to be the murder of another for profit.
The second trailer is the newest, having just been released this week. This trailer takes on more than just the plot, it explains a bit more on how time travel works in this particular universe. We don’t yet know the mechanism that allows time travel here, nor do we see any time travel take place other than a moment in which a character is not there one moment, and is there the next – followed by a moment in which they’re blown away with a very rudimentary shotgun, of course.
Time travel here also appears to have the main characters – including Emily Blunt – grabbing anti-gravity powers for one reason or another too. Check out Blunt’s character pushing around a cigarette lighter in the trailer above. Also notice that this day marks the start of a viral campaign which also reveals the timeline in the movie. In the trailer, we hear that “time travel has not yet been invented, but thirty years from now it will have been.” The viral campaign gives us the year 2044, therefor we’ll be watching Looper in present day 2012. Fun stuff!
Stay tuned to SlashGear’s science and entertainment hubs as we interview a real expert on time travel later this week – Dr. Edward Farhi from MIT! It’s only a matter of time!
Remember the 1990′s? It was a crazy time to be a geek. Especially a comic book geek. All of my comics from that period are worthless because of the collecting frenzy of the time, but man did they have some good storylines. Of course the best stuff can also be found in the toy advertisements between the pages. That’s how this story began. It was the 90′s. Brad McGinty was a 12 year old kid reading through his issue of Heroes Illustrated. Remember those? He came across a tiny picture in one of the columns that a reader had sent in. It was an ad for a bootleg Robocop action figure named Robert Cop. Brad thought that this was pretty awesome and he dreamed about it for years.
And now he has realized his dream and has created this amazingly geeky Robert Cop t-shirt. As Brad puts it, this is a bootleg based on a bootleg. And it really is awesome. It features Robert Cop, C-3PO in a Detroit Metro uniform in the guise of a T-1000 and Johnny frickin 5. NEED! Just $22(USD) at the link below. Thank you, Internet. I love you.
I’ve always had a fascination with flight. My favorite aircraft is the SR-71 Blackbird. The Blackbird was a spy aircraft that ventured into enemy territory for many years with nothing but speed and altitude for defense. That aircraft held flight records and still holds many to this day despite having been retired for years.
A group of aerospace engineers is set for a test flight of an aircraft called the X-51A WaveRider today over the Pacific Ocean. This new plane is even faster than the SR-71. The goal of the test flight is to cruise at 3600 mph for 5 minutes. At Mach 6, a passenger aircraft would be able to fly from Los Angeles to New York in 46 minutes – though it probably would be quite uncomfortable for its passengers at that speed.
The WaveRider will be attached under the wing of a B-52 bomber and carried to an altitude of 50,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean near Point Mugu. The aircraft will then release and accelerate on its Mach 6 journey. The goal of the X-51A program is to perfect hypersonic flight for use by military and commercial aircraft as well as spacecraft and more.
With the next chapter in the Bourne storyline ready to unfold on the big screen tomorrow, Director Tony Gilroy has been more than open about his cut-down on massive camera movement for eye candy. In an interview with Now Toronto’s Norman Wilner, Gilroy begins by noting how unexpected it was to be coming back to the series: “After I wrote Ultimatum, I was, ‘Man, I’ll never be back here again.” He quickly changed a tune once the ideas for a whole new character started flowing, and the aesthetic of the film itself was to be back on the drawing board as well.
With the first three Bourne movies so extremely well received in the box office and Matt Damon’s character Jason Bourne being the center point for the series based on books, it was time for Gilroy to explore a new avenue. As it is with any successful piece of media, there were going to be fans who dislike anything different that comes out in opposition to the first three Bourne movies. Thusly, Gilroy pulled out the metaphysical boat of ideas and got to work.
“They were in a post-Matt world, just sort of fishing around for what to do. There were a couple of ideas, bigger ideas, that everyone got interested in. But it really wasn’t until the character dropped on them – it was like, ‘Oh, my god.’ That’s what you look for.” – Gilroy
Now it’s all about the character Aaron Cross played by the quickly rising star Jeremy Renner, a man who you’ll likely recognize from his most recent giant role as Hawkeye in the films Thor and The Avengers. Though Gilroy describes this fourth installment of Bourne as “an upgrade” for the franchise, “more epic in terms of the breadth of the story,” he also describes how the “jangled aesthetic” (as Wilner describes it) will not be present here in 2012.
“Moving the camera that way is not necessarily the key to excitement. The other big problem was that it had been completely and utterly ripped off by everybody. I mean, everybody. Because it’s not difficult to do, it’s on TV now every night. It’s on commercials.” – Gilroy
Stick around for more Bourne action as the film pops up in theaters across the United States this weekend – head out and see it! And also don’t forget to jump in on our Entertainment portal for movie action well into the future!
If you absolutely have to join the collective of two and get married, you might as well go all out and have a wedding cake that features a starship battle over top of that fondant. Remind yourself that Wolf 359 is where the Borg battle took place, and don’t Wolf it down as fast as you can, 359. This cake comes from Colorado based The Sugarplum Cake Shoppe. You have to admire the level of detail they put into this thing. It’s more a ongoing battle than a cake. And it even lights up.
Phew! Phew! Phew! Wait a minute. What the hell is a Ferengi ship doing on the side of that Borg cube? They wouldn’t last 2 seconds against the Borg. They’re probably using the battle as an excuse to steal some copper wire from the hive mind’s wiring system. The economy sucks for everyone.
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