Science Fiction
A Funky Space Reincarnation
"You and me gonna be getting down on a space bed...getting down on the Moon!"
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 30, 2017 -
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Category: Music, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Sex Symbols, Science Fiction, 1970s
The Wookie Boogie
Neon Werewolf Presents - The Wookie Boogie from neon werewolf on Vimeo.
Thanks to Frank Phillips for the tip!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 16, 2017 -
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Category: Aliens, Music, Science Fiction, Reader Recommendation
The Bubble
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 13, 2017 -
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Category: Aliens, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Science Fiction, 1960s
Paul Starr, Space Agent
More info at the YouTube URL of this clip, as well as here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 18, 2016 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, Science Fiction, 1960s
UFO Noodles
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 04, 2016 -
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Category: Aliens, Business, Advertising, Food, Pop Art, Surrealism, Science Fiction, Asia
L.A. 2017
Just a year away from seeing if Steven Spielberg nailed his predictions from 1971, the year he made this show, L.A. 2017. Seeing elderly hippes still performing some fifty years after the Summer of Love, and knowing the Rolling Stones still go on tours, I think Spielberg might have been on to something!
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 13, 2016 -
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Category: Television, Science Fiction, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1970s
The Solarnauts
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 04, 2016 -
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Category: Television, Science Fiction, 1960s
The Republic of New Africa
As a science fiction writer, I love alternate history novels, about timelines where things happened differently from what we know. Here's a scenario I had been unaware of, which is particularly timely today, in light of many controversies, sharing many parallels.A factual account of the possible historical turning point is appended below.
Someone did fictionalize it, and you can read the first 58 pages here.
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 24, 2016 -
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Category: Government, Racism, Science Fiction, 1960s
Opel Rocket Vehicles
Original pic here.
Opel-RAK were a series of rocket vehicles produced by Fritz von Opel, of the Opel car company, in association with others, including Max Valier and Friedrich Wilhelm Sander largely as publicity stunts.
The Lippisch Ente a rocket-powered glider was produced on June 11, 1928, piloted by Fritz Stamer, but is not usually considered part of the series.
Opel RAK.1 - a rocket car that achieved 75 km/h (47 mph) on March 15, 1928[2]
Opel RAK.2 - rocket car May 23, 1928 reached a speed of 230 km/h (143 mph) driven by 24 solid-fuel rockets[2]
Opel RAK.3 rocket train (quoted speed is variously 254 or 290 km/h. See: [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]) On the second run the train jumps the track and is destroyed.
Opel Rak IV rocket train, destroyed when a solid rocket explodes on the track, exploding all the other rockets. Railway authorities prohibit further runs.[3]
Opel RAK.1 rocket glider September 30, 1929
Some stock footage of some of the rocket vehicles was incorporated into this early SF film.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 25, 2016 -
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Category: Flight, Movies, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Technology, Science Fiction, 1920s, Europe, Cars
The Apple
Explanation here--insofar as is possible.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 31, 2015 -
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Category: Drugs, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Music, Science Fiction, 1980s
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