September 10, 2006
Crusher
It looks like it is straight out of a wasteland anime series.
The way it moves makes every wet dream about military hardware that I've ever had come true. That plus the fact that it is unmanned makes my brain quiver even more. It's as if it were a toy.
It is a prototype multipurpose vehicle from DARPA/NREC that is being tested currently as a recon vehicle. There are two videos that sum it up quite nicely, the first video is a short and sweet exhibition set to heavy rock music, the second video is a 17 minute demonstration and explanation. I would have loved to embedded them here, but they are not embeddable at present.
Even so, the way this machine looks gets me all riled up. I really want to play with it. Maybe I'll play with it in my own way...
September 6, 2006
BattleStar Galactica
The SciFi channel has lately been rerunning episodes of the 70s version of Battlestar Galactica, and having nothing better to do, I've been watching them. Obviously there are a large array of differences, mainly focused around the way the writers and directors approached the series. The old version was written for a viewing public who knew very little about what outer space and science fiction were really about, and as such the series breaks a rule about every other minute. It also is centered around the characters and their interactions/love lives/arguments much more than a modern SciFi viewer would allow.
However I have to hope that the similarities continue as they have. At the beginning of the third season, the new version of Galactica has shown a fantastically fresh and well written take on the older series, becoming SciFi's flagship show, in place of the Stargate series'.
With the release of the first of the new "Webisodes," one can only imagine and hope what the coming seasons will bring, as we draw nearer and nearer to what must be the discovery of Earth in the new series.