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The Day the Sky Exploded (Sci-Fi, 1958) Paul Hubschmid, Madeleine Fische...

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FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1960) | Full Movie | Space Sci-Fi Classic

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" Based on the book  The Astronauts   Novel by StanisÅ‚aw Lem The Astronauts is a 1951 science fiction novel by Polish writer StanisÅ‚aw Lem. It was Lem's first science fiction novel published as a whole: his earlier science fiction novel The Man from Mars was serialized in a weekly during 1946.  this German science fiction adventure is a visual treat, from the sleek, grand, silver  spaceship  and a funky purple  Venus  landscape of alien ruins and crystalline bubbles.

Classic elongated serial Spysmasher

Today seems like a good day to watch the classic elongated serial Spysmasher. I was actually lucky enough to meet the real Spysmasher. He had been a college mate of one of my instructors at Mt Ida. He told me about the patent on the rheostat. He'd created it and it found use in Wire-round variable resistor controlling ovens, heaters and the like. For making bleeder circuits and voltage dividers. You know. Spysmasher was a monster euchre player, according to my prof. He could play the game of euchre . But he could cheat - you had to watch him with that euchre.  Drove a 500-mph Gyrosub. At one point he was brainwashed by The Mask using a Brainograph. But, like with most crazy things, he done got over it.

The Fractalist

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Born in 1924 from a family of noted European mathematicians, Benoit Mandelbrot had an early interest in maps, and began early on to study nature's rough terrains - phenomena beyond traditional geometry and its straight lines and arcs. In a long research and academic career, with much help from the first commercial computers that came about after World War II, he created fractal geometry. In his memoir, "The Fractalist," partially completed before his death in 2010 (and finally compiled by family and colleagues), Mandelbrot tells the tale behind the tale - the one best remembered in his widely read "The Fractal Geometry of Nature." He shows the excitement he found in his early evolution as a scientist, one who had Kepler as an idle. He writes: "I allowed my finger to be touched by a complicated set of gears that soon grabbed my body - and never let go." (This after  Uncle Szolem gave him a reprint of a review of Zipf book.) It is amazing how m...

Sunday funnies on Saturday night: X-9 serial unit

In 1934, Secret Agent X-9 comic strip appeared, produced by Dashiell Hammett and Alex Raymond. Teacher and Writer Bill Blackbeard described Secret X-9 as "The gala wedding of the pulps to the comics."  When I was a boy, on Sunday (I'd be baby sitting my sister while my folks went first to church), they used to read the Sunday Funnies on the TV (WTMJ). This was much as I tried to do here. Out of curiosity, I further tried to make it a bit like an old radio show, with sound effects and music. The run time for this is 4:29, and it covers 21 'cels' from the comic strip (at 3 per day, plus Sunday roll up, that might have meant a week), as was discovered in Secret Agent X-9 (Nostalgia Press, 1976) . Blackbeard wrote that X-9 was Hearst's answer to the News Syndicate success known as Dick Tracy.