So today I am asking if man should change his environment on the Wordpress blog but it has been pointed out to me that I missed a connection to the term "green police", which seems to have found quite a few uses.
There is a band called the Green Police. I wonder if they should call their lead singer "Green Sting"? Sorry. You just had to live through the 1980s to enjoy that kind of humor, I suppose.
I want to point out that in my other article I linked to an article I wrote several years ago called "How to steal the planet Venus and make it your own". I just think that is such a really cool concept -- taking ownership over a planet by getting there first.
The other evening I was watching a Star Trek special features Blu-Ray Disc and it included a semi-interactive section where you can watch brief explanations of the planets in the various movies. The commentator used a star chart (as did the interactive navigation) to show you where all the planets are supposed to be.
I get that civilizations might claim worlds, but how do you claim the space between stars? In Star Trek: Voyager the ship was constantly entering someone's space and being challenged. How do you monitor and control the space between star systems on that scale? You're literally staking out a huge 3-dimensional claim in galactic chunks.
None of which really has anything to do with science fiction and environmentalism, I realism, but once you start thinking about all this stuff you sort of get carried away with it. It just takes you along for the ride.
Maybe one day we'll start imagining what we could do with all those brown dwarf stars floating around the galaxy that failed to ignite for lack of sufficient mass. Think of all that hydrogen and helium that is so neatly packaged.
And maybe someone will come up with a way to utilize dead stars that are just huge diamonds (the remnants of white dwarfs that failed to collapse into neutron stars).
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Dollhouse fan fighting for the show
Although I log in to the SF Fandom Twitter account a few times each week, I rarely check to see who has actually sent a tweet to the account. Hence, I missed a late December Tweet from Tore Simonsen, who appears to be a dedicated Dollhouse fan trying to save the show.
I decided I might as well give his campaign a little boost, although I don't know if my help comes too late.
You can read his Dollhouse: Help In Any Way You Can post here. It provides some links you can follow to sign online petitions, etc.
Good luck, Tore.
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I decided I might as well give his campaign a little boost, although I don't know if my help comes too late.
You can read his Dollhouse: Help In Any Way You Can post here. It provides some links you can follow to sign online petitions, etc.
Good luck, Tore.
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Green Lantern to the environmental rescue
So this week I'm publishing articles about science fiction and environmentalism on the other SF Fandom blog. I'm publishing related articles on this blog as well. Tody's article is Galactic green police. This article continues the theme of how people can take action to help the environment -- and science fiction fans get in on the action now and then.
Source: Freaking News
Green Police poster calls for science fiction fans to get involved with environmentalism.
I like the idea of using Green Lanterns as "green police". I went looking for good Green Lantern costume pictures and found a few.
Source: How Stuff Works
Green Lantern fan at a convention.
Source: The League of Heroes
Green Lantern man and woman in costume at a convention.
Source: Halforums
Justice League characters line up, including Green Lantern and his friend Black Canary.
You might wonder what the connection is between Green Lantern and environmentalism. I don't know how closely tied he is to the cause, as I stopped reading comics decades ago. But I shared some memories in this week's articles.
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Source: Freaking News
Green Police poster calls for science fiction fans to get involved with environmentalism.
I like the idea of using Green Lanterns as "green police". I went looking for good Green Lantern costume pictures and found a few.
Source: How Stuff Works
Green Lantern fan at a convention.
Source: The League of Heroes
Green Lantern man and woman in costume at a convention.
Source: Halforums
Justice League characters line up, including Green Lantern and his friend Black Canary.
You might wonder what the connection is between Green Lantern and environmentalism. I don't know how closely tied he is to the cause, as I stopped reading comics decades ago. But I shared some memories in this week's articles.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
How green are your police?
I was inspired to launch an ambitious series of articles on science fiction and the environment on the other SF Fandom blog this week but I wanted to publish related articles in tandem on this blog, too.
Today's article is titled Are the Green Police Real Enough and it sort of wanders and rambles in my usual fashion but it's all about accountability: who is accountable for what we do to the environment?
I wanted to dress up the articles with some pictures and I found this cute picture (sorry -- I don't know how else to describe it) of kids dressed up as "green police" (thus inspiring the name for the article).
Source: Lincolnshire County Council
It turns out that quite a few communities have invoked the idea of "green police" and I decided to follow that theme through the whole series, but I can't include all the pictures I found in those articles (despite the fact that they are typical very long-winded Michael Martinez articles).
So here are a few other "green police" pictures I looked at but didn't go with for the first article.
Source: Avon and Somerset Glastonbury Festival 2009
Source: You Can Go Green
Source: Blog In A Box
These two ladies give a whole new meaning to the expression, "Going green" (I can't believe I'm going to leave that comment in place).
Source: The Punch
They probably advance the cause much better than Irwin Allen did in the 1960s' television show, Lost In Space:
Source: Cracked
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Today's article is titled Are the Green Police Real Enough and it sort of wanders and rambles in my usual fashion but it's all about accountability: who is accountable for what we do to the environment?
I wanted to dress up the articles with some pictures and I found this cute picture (sorry -- I don't know how else to describe it) of kids dressed up as "green police" (thus inspiring the name for the article).
Source: Lincolnshire County CouncilIt turns out that quite a few communities have invoked the idea of "green police" and I decided to follow that theme through the whole series, but I can't include all the pictures I found in those articles (despite the fact that they are typical very long-winded Michael Martinez articles).
So here are a few other "green police" pictures I looked at but didn't go with for the first article.
Source: Avon and Somerset Glastonbury Festival 2009
Source: You Can Go Green
Source: Blog In A Box
These two ladies give a whole new meaning to the expression, "Going green" (I can't believe I'm going to leave that comment in place).
Source: The PunchThey probably advance the cause much better than Irwin Allen did in the 1960s' television show, Lost In Space:
Source: Cracked
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Trailer for Military SF episode of The Author Hour
The Author Hour is a literary podcast that has a YouTube channel where you can view trailers for various episodes.
The most recent episode, number 11, is devoted to Military SF.
Matthew Peterson, host of The Author Hour, has interviewed 70 authors. You'll hear many interesting anecdotes and get to listen to some of the most talented writers in science fiction and fantasy.
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The most recent episode, number 11, is devoted to Military SF.
Matthew Peterson, host of The Author Hour, has interviewed 70 authors. You'll hear many interesting anecdotes and get to listen to some of the most talented writers in science fiction and fantasy.
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Isaac Asimov video - Changes in post-1949 science fiction
ABOUT SF, an online resource center maintained by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, has a YouTube Channel and they uploaded a snippet from a lecture by or interview with Isaac Asimov a couple of years ago. Sadly, the video doesn't seem to have been viewed very many times.
Feel free to increase their viewcount by watching the video here.
There are currently 8 videos on the YouTube channel. It would be a shame if no more will be uploaded. You can watch Damon Knight and Forrest J. Ackerman and Asimov talk about science fiction in the old days. Knight covers the history of science fiction from "Wells to the pulps".
Check it out.
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Feel free to increase their viewcount by watching the video here.
There are currently 8 videos on the YouTube channel. It would be a shame if no more will be uploaded. You can watch Damon Knight and Forrest J. Ackerman and Asimov talk about science fiction in the old days. Knight covers the history of science fiction from "Wells to the pulps".
Check it out.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
RuneKeepers preview
Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to embed the video, but you can watch a 2-minute preview of "RuneKeepers" here.
Actually, you can watch it on the official site, which includes some background material.
It looks like an interesting short movie that may turn into an independent Internet franchise (assuming there is enough interest in the project).
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Actually, you can watch it on the official site, which includes some background material.
It looks like an interesting short movie that may turn into an independent Internet franchise (assuming there is enough interest in the project).
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