Long Beach Comic Con Final Guests & Schedule Announced

For those keeping an eye on Long Beach Comic Con, landing in Southern California this weekend, we wanted to give a heads up that the full schedule of panels (60+ HOURS!!) is now LIVE, ready to stimulate and educate, and some additional guests have been dropped onto the 80+ guest list, with more recent additions including Sherilyn Fenn (of Twin Peaks), cosplayer Nicole Marie Jean, artist Cat Staggs and the zombie king himself, artist Arthur Suydam alongside a small army of SCIENTISTS!!! SpaceExpo is a rather unique section of LBCC where you can stick your head in a real space suit, conduct experiments with scientists or hear about the latest findings to set your brains ablaze. Geekery and Nerdery join forces this weekend! There's also an event called Burger Con on Saturday night with bands that are triggering a massive buzz across the music loving nations. FUN FOR ALL!!

Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary ‘Trek Talks’ Speaker Series

CBS Consumer Products announced today the creation of Trek Talks, an initiative designed to bring fans of Star Trek together for a new and exciting live event program that will explore the impact and influence of the franchise over its 50-year span. Trek Talks will feature leading thinkers to dive deep into the franchise’s influence on technology, science, society, culture, and more through a series of lectures across the globe.

Trek Talks will be locally produced and hosted by academic and entertainment institutions including colleges and universities, science museums, and pop culture centers and festivals as well as other non-profits and commercial corporations. Organizations (in partnership with CBS) can choose a topic from a group of themes that cover the full scope of Star Trek’s influence or can develop their own theme.

NYCC 2015: Science Channel's SECRET SPACE ESCAPES

New York Comic-Con audiences will get an exciting and exclusive first-look at Science Channel’s all-new series, SECRET SPACE ESCAPES, on Saturday, October 10 at 5:15 PM in Room 1A21. The panel will feature astronauts and space travelers Robert Curbeam, Jerry Linenger and Soyeon Yi with Alex George, Tech Editor for Popular Mechanics, serving as moderator.

The panel will reveal never-before-seen footage and rare first-hand accounts by the people who lived and endured the harrowing near misses, toxic contamination, fires in space, outages and landings gone wrong. In addition, fans will be treated to a special appearance from one astronaut who gives singer David Bowie a run for his money.

Long Beach Comic Con Caters to Geeks AND Nerds with Space Expo 2015!

The Columbia Memorial Space Center is partnering with Long Beach Comic Con for Space Expo 2015, an innovative and one­-of­-a-­kind program that will connect comic book convention attendees directly with the world of scientific discovery. Space Expo 2015 will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center as part of Long Beach Comic Con on September 12 and 13, 2015 with panels featuring top aerospace industry notables discussing hot button scientific topics. As part of Space Expo 2015, there will be interactive exhibits featuring robotics, 3D Printing, and even a spacesuit – all curated by Columbia Memorial Space Center, the prestigious CA ­based learning center dedicated to bringing the wonder and excitement of science to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Battlebots Return to TV

ABC has picked up “BattleBots,” a reimagined take of the killer robot combat sport from Whalerock Industries and the creators of the original “BattleBots” franchise, Ed Roski and Greg Munson. The homeade robots will battle against each other, in a single elimination tournament style format, until there is one champion. The six episode series is anticipated to air this summer. MGM Television, which has a development deal with Whalerock Industries, will be distributing the program internationally.

Journey Into MySpace

Like the great explorers before me, tonight, I seized the opportunity for adventure and traveled back some ..number of years...to relive the days when strangers in the same areas could hit on each other...when you could invite a thousand people to an event without ticking off little boxes for an hour...when the landscape was more than bands promoting their music to other bands. Tonight, I journeyed back to MySpace..and this is my story.

SUPER COMET ISON 2013

Nope, it's not the newest Japanese robo warrior hero. It's nerdery at its finest.

A massive glowing “super comet” made its path toward Earth at speeds exceeding 425,000 miles per hour – and Science Channel will air the definitive special chronicling its historic voyage.  The world premiere special SUPER COMET ISON 2013 will offer stunning views of the Comet ISON from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and leading observatories across Earth as it completed its 4.5 trillion mile journey which began millions of years ago.  SUPER COMET ISON 2013 will premiere on Science Channel on Saturday, December 7 at 10PM ET/PT.

Scientist Killjoys Teach The Realities of Super Powers

Folks like to interject reality into comic book movies to make the situations and characters more relatable. It worked..for a little while..til those situations and characters got long winded and reality proved to be a major downer. It's how we got a Bane who sounds like the cross between a snarky Bond bad guy and the old prospector in an ancient western. Let's face it...if we wanted reality in our comic books...we wouldn't be reading about buff guys and buxom gals in tights, would we? Now, TED-Ed looks to squash our dreams of waking up one sunny day with super speed, flight, invisibility, strength, immortality, and body mass (sorry..do YOU dream of body mass??!!) with a series of videos exploring the realities one wold face if granted these powers. Are they complete creeps for destroying our childhood dreams? Indeed. Are the videos highly educational? Yes. Very interesting if you are nerd inclined, as I am. Hit the jump and take a look...and try not to sob out loud...

BBC Unleashing the Dinosaurs

 BBC Home Entertainment presents exciting, terrifying and mind-blowing dinosaur discoveries with this trio of DVDs, all available March 12, 2013: Extreme Dinosaurs, Predator Dinosaurs, and Prehistoric Park.

The first DVD, Extreme Dinosaurs, is a Dino Double Feature that will challenge a number of the previous perceptions of the Tyrannosaurus rex. In Extreme Dinosaurs, the first on the double-bill, Paleontologist Dr. Phillip Currie believes he has found a fiercer predator than the T-Rex: a six-ton flesh-eating dinosaur, the Argentinosaurus, which hunted its prey in packs. Until recently there was little evidence to support Currie's theories but now with the discovery of two mass dinosaur graves on his hands, he is able to gather the evidence to prove his theory to be true.

In the Future We Make Our Own Toys

Long ago in the days of Action-figure.com, we discussed rapid prototyping machines and the possibilities they present in allowing toy companies to break away from dependency on production in China, which would be a revolution for the industry. Now, that dream is very nearly realized. Break.com posted a video yesterday outlining the wonders of a company in Massachusets that has developed a replicator machine that can reproduce an object WITH working parts to within an accuracy of 40 microns..which is slightly smaller than a human hair. WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!!! Check this out...


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