https://www.ign.com/videos/how-a-minecraft-movies-director-unlocked-the-casts-weirdness
The Digital Labyrinth :: TDL
News & popular culture & observing various ideas & Sci-Fi concepts that become a technological reality. What is reality in general? Some say that it's all part of a cosmic simulation.
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Cruise Ship Battered By Drake Passage Waves
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/antarctica-drake-passage-cruise-ship-waves
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/drake-passage-antarctica-dangerous-waters
The Drake_Passage is the epitome of a treacherous aquatic choke_point.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/drake-passage-rough-sea-scn/index.html
Friday, March 28, 2025
The Most Earthquake Vulnerable Cities in the World
https://www.thoughtco.com/seismic-hazard-maps-of-the-world-1441205
http://www.efehr.org/Earthquake-risk/risk-map/
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/earth-hazards/earthquakes/where-do-earthquakes-occur/
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/which-countries-are-at-risk-of-earthquakes
https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/commons-magazine/worlds-riskiest-cities
Millions at risk as big cities grow apace in earthquake zones https://www.nature.com/articles/44445
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/earthquake/
https://www.raffleresults.com.au/blog/what-are-the-odds-of-an-earthquake-happening-in-sydney
https://www.thinkhazard.org/en/report/5396-australia-victoria-melbourne-c/EQ ,
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
Building collapse in Bangkok following 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar
A building hasn't reached its full strength potential until the main part of the construction process is completed.
A building collapse during the construction process can be more dangerous, because of all the extra construction vehicles, machinery, materials and equipment.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2989931/quake-hit-bangkok-declared-disaster-area
Of course no building is indestructible from an earthquake, or other things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_Thailand#Tallest_completed_buildings
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/terror-commuters-bangkok-skytrain-shakes-135746637.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_Thailand#Under_construction
Bangkok is a tall building city like, Tokyo, Shanghai, HK, Seoul, Singapore, Kuala_Lumpur, Jakarta, Mumbai, Melbourne, Sydney, Ackland, LA, SF and Seattle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_Thailand#Approved_and_proposed
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Earthquake+in+Myanmar
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
Magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar with tremors felt in Thailand
The earthquake in Myanmar
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5zegd34o
Myanmar doesn't have tall buildings, compared to many other cities.
How well would have buildings that were a few times taller hold up?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Myanmar
Diamond_Inya_Palace is still the tallest in Yangon. - Estimated to be about 122 m (400 ft) tall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Myanmar#Tallest_under_construction
The building heights in Yangon are even more limited than those in Honolulu or SD.
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/earth-hazards/earthquakes/where-do-earthquakes-occur/
Several cities can be affected by earthquakes, but they still build up big and tall.
Of course Tokyo, Shanghai, HK, Seoul, Singapore, Kuala_Lumpur, Jakarta, Mumbai, Melbourne, Sydney, Ackland, LA, SF & Seattle, aren't afraid to build much taller structures, despite many cities being in an earthquake zone.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
From before Greek fire to the Airborne Laser and beyond
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/greek-fire/
Was Greek_fire a technology that was derived from a much earlier point in history?
https://decodehindumythology.blogspot.com/2015/04/war-of-the-worlds_11.html
https://medium.com/@adeshbhatt/cutting-edge-technologies-in-mahabharata-523fe1650809
Ancient Indian Warfare Technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hilAI122U0
The battle of two armies with an ancient secret weapon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUVXoi_5LM0
Atlantis is a great mythological story and cautionary tale, but could have an ancient civilization with high technology really have collapsed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis#Modern
Atlantis,_the_Lost_Continent (1961) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis,_the_Lost_Continent#Plot Unfortunately, Atlantis,_the_Lost_Continent had a very limited budget and the special effects of the time were very basic. It's still an entertaining basic old Sci-Fi movie. https://archive.org/details/atlantis-the-lost-continent-1961
https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/atlantis/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis#Plato's_dialogues
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/atlantis , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPsyBUCijM
https://thetossup.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/gladiator-or-300
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Castle
"In Michael Crichton's sci-fi novel Timeline, Professor Edward Johnston is stuck in the past in 14th-century Europe, and claims to have knowledge of Greek fire." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire#In_literature
We Didn't Start the Fire (Bardcore | Medieval/Renaissance Style Cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDs-Y5DNH8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_Laser , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1#Cancellation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Energy_Liquid_Laser_Area_Defense_System
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a26858944/pentagon-particle-beam-space-2023
https://asgardia.space/news/Deferred-Indefinitely-US-Rethinks-Particle-Beam-Weapons
2001:_A_Space_Odyssey is still one of the best sci-fi-movies ever made.
https://www.scifimoviezone.com/200105.shtml https://www.britannica.com/topic/2001-A-Space-Odyssey-film-1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey#Visual_effects
Monday, March 24, 2025
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Star Wars and SDI: Defending America and the Galaxy?
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/upcoming-exhibit/star-wars-and-sdi-defending-american-and-galexy
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Strategic-Defense-Initiative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/rd/104253.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle-beam_weapon#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative#Directed-energy_weapon_(DEW)_programs
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/public/documents/sdi-speech.pdf
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/from-star-wars-to-coexistence-under-the-stars-21442aac4fca
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreagansdi.htm
Some ideas are revived, especially when better technology is available.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Elon Musk Unveils $7,566 Tesla Tiny House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksjz95qcFVk
$7,579 Tesla Tiny House FINALLY HIT The Market! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxbIfIdz2-E
Nvidia's GR00T N1 and the Future of Global Humanoid Robots
https://technologymagazine.com/articles/nvidias-gr00t-n1-and-the-future-of-global-humanoid-robots
https://tech.co/news/humanoid-workforce-robots-less-five-years-away-nvidia
https://www.azernews.az/region/239301.html
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/live/nvidia-gtc-2025-live
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/03/19/nvidias-ai-robot-blue-stuns-with-live-interaction
The Future of Humanoid Robots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_robots_and_androids
- Artificial human-like being created by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. (1920)
"The robots described in Čapek's play are not robots in the popularly understood sense of an automaton. They are not mechanical devices, but rather artificial biological organisms that may be mistaken for humans. A comic scene at the beginning of the play shows Helena arguing with her future husband, Harry Domin, because she cannot believe his secretary is a robotess:
DOMIN: Sulla, let Miss Glory have a look at you.
HELENA: (stands and offers her hand) Pleased to meet you. It must be very hard for you out here, cut off from the rest of the world.
SULLA: I do not know the rest of the world Miss Glory. Please sit down.
HELENA: (sits) Where are you from?
SULLA: From here, the factory.
HELENA: Oh, you were born here.
SULLA: Yes I was made here..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.#%C4%8Capek's_conception_of_robots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maschinenmensch , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maschinenmensch#Film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Helm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film) , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)#Plot , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)#Influences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Ga_Ga#Music_video , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azdwsXLmrHE
Styx - Mr. Roboto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
The Man Who Stepped Into The Future By Mistake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kysAtHGukY A very interesting urban legend.
Execution_(The_Twilight_Zone) was first on TV in 1960. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_(The_Twilight_Zone)#Plot
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734567/mediaviewer/rm2366755585 To his left side and further behind him, is what appears to be some kind of a desktop computer flat-screen. However, instead of a keyboard at the bottom, there seems to be 2 or 3 control dials. Then beside that, there might be some kind of a numerical keypad, which might even have some letters on it. It's a fascinating prop for a TZ, TV episode.
https://gamerant.com/twilight-zone-best-time-travel-episodes TT in the TZ https://13thdimension.com/the-twilight-zone-dig-these-13-great-time-travel-episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
The Man Who Saw The Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo7op1aTO50 An interesting account of things, perhaps from another timeline.
https://futurism.com/the-many-world-interpretation-or-the-copenhagen-interpretation
Time+Travel stories can be quite entertaining and very interesting.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Canada BLOCKED U.S. Access to Alaska
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsngculfKo
Why Canada Is Russia’s Biggest Threat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sdXmT_8f3I
A doctor claims Gene Hackman’s wife called him 24 hours after officers said she died - casting more mystery over the couple’s deaths
Sometimes it can take a little why to realize that things don't always add up.
Police release new evidence in timeline of Hackman and his wife's death https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g1xvzg4ko
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tragic-deaths-gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-timeline/story?id=119873270
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Gene+Hackman
Monday, March 17, 2025
From EBTTRT to The MATRIX
https://grok.com/?q=u2+even+better+than+the+real+thing+and+the+matrix
U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTxrgXWToZA "Filmed in spring 1992 in London, this video for the fourth single from the album Achtung Baby was directed by Kevin Godley"
The Matrix (1999) - Live action Bullet time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxhA0vKyZVk
THE MATRIX (1999) | Making of Bullet Time Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYk0WHcmrYo
https://cyberartsweb.org/cpace/scifi/gibson/matrix.html
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/7-classic-sci-fi-influences-on-the-original-the-matrix
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/neuromancer-tv-series-the-matrix-william-gibson/
https://thevarsity.ca/2023/09/04/jacking-into-neuromancer/
Cyberpunk in the 1990s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydag_IsxEA
William Gibson - Cyberpunk - BBC Late Show © 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBCWFlgaXc
Neuromancer: The Origin of Cyberpunk | A Horrifying Dystopia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGW_7HTXuQo
William Gibson, U2-ZOO TV and The MATRIX
https://grok.com/?q=william+gibson+u2+and+the+matrix
William-Gibson was instrumental in describing a digital meta-world in the 1980s. A world that isn't all real, as it also exists in the realm of VR.
https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Sprawl_trilogy
https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Matrix
https://x.com/GreatDismal/status/1164246975669104642
https://posthumans.fandom.com/wiki/Matrix_(Neuromancer)
https://x.com/GreatDismal/status/1164240403270270976
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=William+Gibson
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+U2+Matrix
Coincidence-Synchronicity and the Simulation Hypothesis
https://grok.com/?q=synchronicity
https://grok.com/?q=the+simulation+hypothesis
https://grok.com/?q=william+gibson+and+the+matrix
https://x.com/GreatDismal/status/1164240403270270976
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/archive/2003_01_28_archive.asp
https://damiengwalter.medium.com/denis-villeneuves-neuromancer-657241d7d8fe , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO76sW0ID5k
We Live in a Simulation. The evidence is everywhere. All you have to do is look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wMhXxZ1zNM
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=William+Gibson
TNOR
Saturday, March 15, 2025
TT Beyond The Ides of March
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March#Assassination_of_Caesar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar#Ides_of_March
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1963_film)#Plot While this isn't supposed to be a Time Travel story, the ability to see into the future is depicted in a key scene of this movie.
Back then, they couldn't call it, the simulation hypothesis. However, the movie has a scene depicting future events in the Earth time continuum.
"...Elizabeth Taylor (title character) gazes into the priestess’s fire and sees, presumably in advance, what actually transpires in the narrative, as Caesar (Rex Harrison) is murdered..." https://www.tcm.com/video/1222669/cleopatra-1963-movie-clip-caesar-caesar
How much of this Earth's reality is prerecorded or pre-set? https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-worlds-theory How can some people have visions of future events?
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1519&context=jams
https://circledna.com/blog/what-are-prophetic-dreams/?
Officially, for many people, precognition or visions can't be real, because this world isn't suppose to be part of a cosmic simulation, or some kind of a created reality. Thus, for many, it's just something within the province of Sci-Fi entertainment.
https://minorityreport.fandom.com/wiki/Precogs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report#Precogs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(2007_film)#Plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowing_(2009_film)#Plot
The of course there are the various Time Travel stories. Some of theses TT stories are more about seeing into the future, than actually physically going there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(1952_novelette)
"He has also realized that during his tenure at Rethrick Industries he worked on a machine that allowed people to view the future..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(novelette)#Plot_summary
"While hiding, they find that the stamps on the envelopes contain microdot images taken from the device, showing newspaper headlines from the future that while Allcom became incredibly successful with the device, it led to international political strife and the United States launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike. They agree that the machine must be destroyed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(film)#Plot
Tenet provides a different and fascinating take on the concept of Time Travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenet_(film)#Plot
New Evidence For The Simulation Hypothesis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhAgpq26Noc
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44141381-the-simulation-hypothesis
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Simulation Hypothesis New Evidence For The Simulation Hypothesis?
TT
Friday, March 14, 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
The Phoenix Lights: 28 years later, the mystery endures
The Phoenix_Lights incident in 1997 was quickly and easily dismissed by the various authorities.
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/phoenix-lights-ufo-mystery-explanations-19105870
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights#Explanations There always has to be an official coverstory.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/phoenix-lights
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-serious-ufo-uap-security Unfortunatly, such high-technology would have to be classified and hidden from the masses.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/phoenix-lights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Lights#Later_reports A lot of people saw a series of lights in an alignment that could be indicative of a large hovering structurer. Any very advanced human technology would have to be officially denied. If it was some alleged ET spacecraft, it would also have to be denied, because any local ET presence would cause too many people to ask too many questions about, The Nature Of Reality (TNOR).
How many intelligent species could there be in this galaxy and then how many throughout the universe? How far back does history really go back on the Earth? Has humanity made the climb from the stone age to the space age more than once? If so, how many times? are there parallel worlds, is there a multiverse?
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Phoenix+Lights
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Why So Many Ancient Civilizations Collapsed At The Same Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l8YQuyjWks
Ancient Apocalypse Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEfbSn_n3qM
Ancient Civilizations of the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpu3XoY3wQw
If humanity has made the climb from the stone-age to the space-age more than once, that might be too disturbing for some to fathom. Are there many worlds or parallel realities? Is there a multiverse or a parallel_universe or just a universe with many levels or channels?
FRINGE is such a fantastic Sci-Fi TV_series. https://www.fringeconnections.com
https://fringedatabase.fandom.com/wiki/The_First_People , https://fringe.fandom.com/wiki/First_People
http://www.fringetelevision.com/2011/03/secrets-of-fringe-first-people.html
14 years since Fukushima nuclear disaster
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/fukushima-radiation-us-west-coast-tuna
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/fukushima
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/fukushima-nuclear-accident
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/japans-nuclear-meltdown/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Fukushima+nuclear+disaster
The Fukushima nuclear accident (2011)
The Fukushima_nuclear_accident was a total disaster and keeps on providing poison to the world.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/japans-nuclear-meltdown/
https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/areas-of-work/fukushima.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident#Earthquake
https://www.history.com/news/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-japan-earthquake-timeline
https://www.iaea.org/topics/response/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-accident
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Fukushima+nuclear+disaster
Saturday, March 08, 2025
Brian Cox Explains The Fermi Paradox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbNPBcUgDTs
https://www.livescience.com/fermi-paradox
https://www.britannica.com/story/the-fermi-paradox-where-are-all-the-aliens
https://www.space.com/25325-fermi-paradox.html
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1543150/The_Fermi_Paradox Wow, it's a good thing that this universe isn't part of someones game.
The Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Mystery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH370:_The_Plane_That_Disappeared , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDg0m2Q3H8c
What Netflix got WRONG - Malaysian Flight 370 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhkTo9Rk6_4
The FULL MH370 Story, so Far... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K9HBiJpuk
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Malaysia+Airlines+Flight+370
Thursday, March 06, 2025
Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age and Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMHiLvirCb0 History is full of mysteries and anomalies.
Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock and Flint Dibble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DL1_EMIw6w
How far does history and civilization really goes back?
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Graham+Hancock
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
The Story of Talos, from the Giant Mythological Robot to Advanced AI-Robotics
https://eurekacourses.org/the-story-of-talos/
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2019/02/ancient-myths-reveal-early-fantasies-artificial-life
https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-ancient-forerunner-of-ai/
https://greekreporter.com/2024/08/07/talos-ancient-greek-robot/
Queen - Machines (Or Back To Humans) (Official Lyric Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX6vPWW8n-I
Rush - The Body Electric https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Dju2i4FZw , https://www.rush.com/songs/the-body-electric/
Penn and Teller: Bullshit!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller:_Bullshit!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Penn_%26_Teller:_Bullshit!_episodes
It's all BS, but it can also be fun B$ entertainment.
Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Watch this humanlike robot 'rise from the dead' with creepy speed and stability
Imagine having one of these standing guard outside your front or back door. It could be like a RING camera and advanced AI robot security guard, all in one.
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ring-new-ai-video-search-tool-mixed-results
ttps://headhuntershorrorhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Kolchak:_The_Night_Stalker:_Mr._R.I.N.G.
In 1975 there was Mr. R.I.N.G. in a Sci-Fi, horror TV episode.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/KolchakTheNightStalkerE12MrRing R.I.N.G.'s name stands for "Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia".
Although the special effects were very basic then, it's still interesting to watch.
https://nightstalker.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._R.I.N.G. , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htg5nWtto2c
"Kolchak investigates a US military developed weapon called R.I.N.G; a robot which uses deadly force to defend itself against those who would harm it." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0621539
https://akolchakaday.blogspot.com/2012/01/episode-12-mr-ring.html
https://cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.com/2023/03/tv-tangent-kolchak-night-stalker.html
Bioscience Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a 'Woolly Mouse'
From little mice to the new and improved Woolly Mammoth, some day, perhaps not that far away.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/04/genetically-modified-woolly-mice-mammoth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00684-1
Splice is an interesting horror movie about creating composite or hybrid life-forms.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/2010-06-04/splice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_(film)#Plot
"In the near future there’s a RePet store in every mall that will clone your dead pet for you, but human cloning, although technically possible, has been outlawed." https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-6th-day-2000
The 6th Day - RePet Infomercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtoLvF_TlSA
The 6th Day (2000) Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VP44dGIi9c
Video for Alice Cooper Clones from the 1980 album 'Flush the Fashion' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1h38gC23bw
Monday, March 03, 2025
Was there ever any life on Mars?
Any official proof and announcement that life had existed on another planet would get people thinking.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a61729352/perseverance-mars-microbial-life/
Any official declaration that intelligent life exists on other planets would get people really talking.
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/was-there-life-on-mars/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/life-on-mars-may-have-been-its-own-worst-enemy
Creating Our Own Final Frontier: Forbidden Planet
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/09/11/creating-our-own-final-frontier-forbidden-planet/
In many ways, Forbidden+Planet was far ahead of its time.
Despite the limited special effects of the 1950s, the overall story is a timeless cautionary tale.
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Forbidden_Planet was released 10 years before the first STAR TREK TV episode in 1966. FP didn't have the level of special effects like in the 1977 STAR WARS movie, because there was quite a gap in the technology. Yet, the ideas, concepts and scenarios presented in FP still hold up today. Especially, as a cautionary story about mind generation, AI-3D printing technology getting way out of control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet#Plot
https://scifiinterfaces.com/category/forbidden-planet-1956
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049223
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet#Production
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/forbidden_planet , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxQ9GG6hUDM
Everything you need to know about Forbidden Planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nztAnbt-1Q
https://gnosticrooster.substack.com/p/aihuman-bci-part-one-forbidden-planet
https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-driven-tool-personalize-3d-printable-models-0915
"In the 1956 American science-fiction film, Forbidden Planet, we learn of a civilization on the distant planet Altair that had perished 200,000 years ago. The inhabitants of this planet, the Krell, had developed an ultimate machine that enabled them to enormously augment their intelligence and to effectively materialize anything through the exercise of will, thought, or imagination. As the film progresses, we come to realize that it was precisely this machine that destroyed the Krell and their civilization, as it provided their subconscious with unlimited power and resulted in “monsters from the Id.” https://www.qeios.com/read/GILKJV
https://archive.internationalpsychoanalysis.net/2010/05/15/forbidden-planet
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Forbidden+Planet
Saturday, March 01, 2025
Here's What Los Angeles Looked Like In The 1980s
https://laist.com/news/entertainment/los-angeles-1980s
https://www.laexplained.com/post/embracing-the-sun-kissed-joys-los-angeles-in-the-1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Live_and_Die_in_L.A._(1986_Wang_Chung_song) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf4x36XKhsM
Wang Chung - To Live And Die In L.A. - 7/6/1986 - Ritz NYC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PT77LraDcA&t=39s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Boomtown (1986) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97wvwuHUMCw Welcome To The Boomtown · David & David https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3st4AD69-0
https://www.britannica.com/topic/rock-Los-Angeles-1980s-overview-1371305 There was a certain sound and feel during the 80s, but it was all part of the larger diversity and energy that is L.A.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-12-31-me-333-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics
https://www.laconservancy.org/1980-1990-los-angeles-confirmed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venues_of_the_1984_Summer_Olympics
https://www.huckmag.com/article/a-portrait-of-los-angeles-at-the-turn-of-the-1980s
https://www.instagram.com/alisonmartino/reel/C7fOJkoSPVM L.A. in the 1970s.
Friday, February 28, 2025
The Gene Hackman mystery
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/entertainment/what-we-know-gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-hnk/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-what-we-know-rcna194139
Death of Hackman and wife 'suspicious enough' for investigation https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewkkkvkzn9o
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Gene+Hackman
Britain’s reported demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to users’ cloud data
There is an agenda to remove as much digital privacy as possible.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/uk-encryption-order-threatens-global-privacy-rights/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yvn90pl5no
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/14/uk-encryption-order-threatens-global-privacy-rights
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g288yldko
https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Public-cloud-Data-sovereignty-and-data-security-in-the-UK
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Gene Hackman and wife found dead in their Santa Fe home
GH was in The_Conversation and Enemy_of_the_State, with suspicious death as being part of the storyline. Now GH might be part of a suspicious death investigation.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Gene+Hackman
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
World’s first flying car hops over vehicle in public test
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/flying-car-alef-aeronautics-range-b2703554.html
With a good propulsion system and GPS working at an optimum level, this is possible.
https://www.flyingmag.com/flying-car-lifts-off-over-the-streets-of-california/
https://globetrender.com/2025/02/25/alef-aeronautics-debuts-flying-car/
https://www.iotworldtoday.com/flying-vehicles/flying-vehicle-company-gets-30m-funding
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx20nwlqe07o
https://www.jalopnik.com/1798307/flying-car-alef-aeronautics-california-miserable/
You can be sure that Tesla, Inc. will want to get in on the whole flying+car wave.
Monday, February 24, 2025
The Battle of Los Angeles in 1942
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
https://www.history.com/news/world-war-iis-bizarre-battle-of-los-angeles
The Alien Threat Behind the Battle of LA | History's Greatest Mysteries (S5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbBCIrorYY
How a UFO Caused the Battle of Los Angeles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAH59Wh-Ymo
https://www.latimes.com/visuals/framework/la-me-fw-archives-1942-battle-la-20170221-story.html
More Billionaire Wealth, Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers
https://inequality.org/article/updates-billionaire/
https://inthesetimes.com/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-pandemic
While another covid shutdown would dramatically increase the wealth of the billionaires, things would be very rough for the general public. The world could go into a total financial depression. So many small businesses and smaller businesses would get gobbled up or simply fold.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/12/27/why-do-the-rich-get-richer-even-during-global
Fortunately, the world economy hasn't been shutdown for the past 5 years and the global lockdown wound down years ago.
https://news.uchicago.edu/tag/covid-2025
However, given the potential to have another huge financial boost for the billionaires, could it happen again?
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=coronavirus+variants
A relative was denied new heart because she is unvaccinated
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
Thursday, February 20, 2025
China scientists discover new bat coronavirus that poses risk of animal-to-human transmission
Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425001448
Monday, February 17, 2025
Toronto Pearson Airport plane crash
https://globalnews.ca/news/11022300/pearson-airport-crash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Connection_Flight_4819#Crash
A plane crash is bad anywhere, especially in freezing Canada.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/plane-reportedly-crashes-while-arriving-202716109.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_in_aviation
https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/how-many-plane-crashes-2025-5366808/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Delta+Connection+Flight+4819