Filed under: cinema, science fiction | Tags: frank herbert is nuts, nazis!, pravda!, progressors, remembering the future, science fiction traditions, the strugatskys, usa! usa!, ussr, what the hell
Communists Say Avatar Director ‘Robbed’ Soviet Science Fiction: Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia
Indignant party members say that Cameron, prepared to do anything to execute the command of the White House, surreptitiously entered the mysterious and romantic world of Soviet science fiction, and transferred all the action to his primitive propaganda film and to the Strugatsky-created world of planet Pandora.
Now, I haven’t seen Avatar yet. But, of course, as we all know, the Strugatskys’ Pandora is a world given over entirely to scientific research giant crayfish hunting where when you try to go there you end up crashing off-course because you got hijacked by a time-traveling Red Army officer and if you try to go back in history you end up being menaced by a skull. And does this mean Frank Herbert’s The Jesus Incident is also to blame for this?
Filed under: future history, history | Tags: making light of terrible events, model rockets, nasm, nazis!, outdated technology, rockets, v2, werner von braun
Merry Christmas Eve, internet!
Filed under: comics | Tags: nazis!, science fiction, science fiction traditions, usa! usa!, what the hell, why are you doing this to me
Membership [in Mister Mind’s Monster Society of Evil]:
- Mr. Mind
- Archibald, a satyr
- An army of termites and worms
- Artificial bodies Mr. Mind could mentally inhabit, consisting of:
- A Goat-Man, half-man, half-goat
- A robot, seemingly indestructible
- An octopus with a human face, constantly grinning
- A circus strongman, with strength rivalling that of Captain Marvel himself
- Bonzo, fanged hunchback with large eyes
- Captain Nazi, superstrong Aryan warrior
- Crocodile-Men, a race of humanoids from the planetoid Punkus
- Dobbin, Mr. Mind’s seahorse steed
- Dome attendants who tend to Mr. Mind’s undersea base, consisting of:
- A pig-man
- A goblin
- A werewolf
- An ogre
- A midget submarine captain, the last of Mr. Mind’s minions to leave him
- Dr. Smashi, short Japanese scientist and one of Mr. Mind’s three lieutenants
- Dr. Hashi, spiky-haired Japanese scientist
- Dr. Peeyu, tall Japanese scientist
- Dr. Sivana, the “world’s wickedest scientist”
- Evil Eye, monster with the ability to hypnotize
- Herkimer, Crocodile-Man and Mr. Mind’s second-in-command
- Herr Phoul, bald Nazi scientist with a monocle and one of Mr. Mind’s three lieutenants
- Adolf Hitler and all the resources of Nazi Germany
- Hydra, head-regenerating monster created by Mr. Mind
- IBAC, criminal who sold his soul for superstrength and durability
- Jeepers, last of a race of bat-monsters
- Jorrk, greatest scientist of the Crocodile-Men and one of Mr. Mind’s three lieutenants
- Marmaduke, criminal with big ears and a fat face
- Monster Brigade, undersea monsters under Mr. Mind’s command, consisting of:
- A sperm whale
- A giant octopus
- A hammerhead shark
- A huge sea-serpent
- Monster Professors, teachers at Mr. Mind’s Monster School, consisting of:
- A human,
- A Crocodile-Man,
- A fanged monster,
- A humanoid with the head of a hippopotamus
- Monster Students, pupils at the Monster School, consisting of:
- Human tough guys
- Crocodile-Men
- A black, horned demon
- Mr. Banjo, criminal and leaker of secrets via coded music from his banjo, played on a popular radio show
- Benito Mussolini and all the resources of Fascist Italy
- Nippo, master swordsman and spy for the Japanese
- Sylvester, Crocodile-Man and one of Mr. Mind’s preferred gunners
- Synthetic animals created by Mr. Mind, consisting of:
- Oscar, a giant lobster
- Oliver, a giant octopus with human hands
- Ophelius, a huge ram
- Oliphant, a dragon
- Hideki Tojo and all the resources of Imperial Japan
- Tough guys, generic human enforcers of Mr. Mind’s wishes, notable ones include:
- A tommy-gun wielder
- A cloaked swordsman
- A beret-wearer
- A stereotypical “Goomba”
- A Gatsby cap-wearer
Keep in mind, of course, that Mister Mind is a two-inch-tall caterpillar.
Filed under: musea | Tags: ho-229, let's liveblog, nasm, nazis!, paul e garber prsf, science fiction, why are you doing this to me
10:04: Well, that ending was terrible. Seriously, a Nazi stealth bomber? Even my dad thought that was bullshit.
9:50: ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads iphone ad
9:48: Has anybody talked up the “legend of the Nazi stealth fighter” before this program? I know I’d never heard of it before.
9:47: I wonder if there are different plans for riggin’ a plane for a radar test range and for hanging in a museum?
9:45: The premise of this program is revealed – “I wonder if it really is stealthy. I mean, it looks stealthy to me.”
9:44: Oh, c’mon, it’s not like out-dogfighting a Me-262 is tough. Things could fly fast in a straight line, but they couldn’t turn for shit.
9:42: Shit, the Germans are expecting a NUKE
9:41: They keep saying “generations ahead” but I mean the YB-49 only flew in ’47 and the 229 flew for the first time in December ’44.
9:39: Damn, there are a lot of ads on this. Maybe Fringe and Kings are spoiling me.
9:33: I’m still here, it’s just hard to say anything about the rush to form a plexiglass cockpit.
9:29: Coatings. Boo-urns.
9:21: Okay, seriously? 2500 dollars a gallon and that’s easier than a little aluminum pipe?
9:18: I realize there’s a whole history of modeling radar reflection but seriously is it tougher to paint it accurately than it is to fabricate a bit of aluminum piping? Oh, they’re doing it in three months.
9:17: Plus are we supposed to believe the head of the Luftwaffe had never heard of the preeminent glider designers in all Germany? And I was under the impression the 229 was designed to be a fighter-bomber, and that the Hortens didn’t claim it could be an interceptor?
9:16: “The Horten 229 was generations ahead of the rest of the world.” Therefore, it was obviously made for revenge.
9:06:
jeff nagle
stop touching it you dicks
allegra black
eh, at least it’s nat geo and not discovery people
discovery people are assholes
9:05: And it’s right there next to the Mosquito, huh. But where are the Garber peeps? And why do they keep touching it?
9:04: Hahahahahahaha, a “secure government facility.” Thanks for the vote of confidence, guys, but you forgot to mention it’s stored next to a mash tank and the expanded human nervous system. And then the shot of the cyclone wire, geez.
9:03: Norman Leach’s a Canadian military historian? We’re trusting a Canadian specialist to tell us about German aerospace-science relations?
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