Scientists are on the verge of creating new life from synthetic, artifical DNA. Upside? Organ and nerve tissue replacement without a need for embryonic stem cells. Downside? Crazy mad Dr. Moreau-type terrorists creating new deadly and more resistant viruses that could destroy crops, animals and humans.
Filming at the Long Beach, California City Hall concluded today for “Star Trek.” Now cast and crew will move on to the next locations, which will include the famous Vasquez Rocks, a site used in some classic Trek, TNG, Voyager and Enterprise episodes and at least one of the Star Trek films.
Guillermo del Toro, who directed and co-wrote the upcoming SF sequel “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” told SCI FI Wire in an interview that he and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola fashioned the follow-up so that it lays the groundwork for a possible sequel. But if there isn’t a third film, the movie also effectively closes out the story, he added.
“The Dock Walloper” is the creation of actor/producer/director Edward Burns. It debuted as a Virgin Comics serial last month and what was to first be a movie idea, on the order of “Sin City,” is now a first rate graphic novel.
“I had an idea for a big, epic story about Irish-American gangsters in New York, set against Prohibition,” Burns said in an interview while promoting his latest high-intensity shocker, “One Missed Call. “I never wrote the script. I just kind of outlined different takes on it. And it was going to prove to be way too expensive to do as a live-action thriller.”
Astronomers are urging the governments of the world to make a more serious effort to support asteroid and meteorite research because one of the greatest threats to an ever-expanding human populace isn’t a massive asteroid impact, but a much smaller one like the infamous Tunguska explosion, which mysteriously leveled an area of Siberian forest nearly the size of Tokyo a century ago.
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