Happy Birthday "Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation" or LASER for short.

Although the Laser is such an old technology it still is invokes that futuristic "nostalgia" of space operas and creatures of outer space.

The Laser was once the manifestation of the still elusive "Death Ray". But so far Military Use has been limited for range finding and target illumination (for smart bombs to find their aim). But many scientist are working of High-Powered-Lasers to shoot down missiles (Ronald Reagan’s infamous Star Wars Projects springs to mind as well).

Today we use many many products that use a Laser (like our CD-Drives in our Computers) or were produced using one (a lot of industrial metal sheet cutting is done with Lasers).

Not to forget many medical applications like eye surgery and "sharks with friggin’ Laser Beams attached to their heads" …

I grew up watching a lot of SciFi series aimed at kids – it still was the space age and we all wanted to Astronauts (and not bloody rapper or skinny super models).

Barry Gray composed the soundtracks of many famous British TV shows.

I love his style: driven, funky and almost always cheerful. A bit militaristic sometimes – but most SciFi was based on military organizations: like SHADO in UFO or Captain Scarlet.

His music also reflected the positive attitude to the future – something we finally lost in the 1980′s (thank you so much Riddley Scott and Chernobyl).

Click player below to start the UFO – Opening Theme:

Click player below to start the Mysteron Theme from Captain Scarlet:

Click player below to start the Loch Ness Monster Suite:

Go to the website, download, unpack the game and get addicted. It’s a "simple" platform game, but with that charming 1988 sound and visuals. The action is brilliant!

It once again shows that a good game and attention to detail is all that is needed – not fancy graphics and sounds.

Star Guard puts many new games to shame …

As usual this old pulp cover is full of ridicules moments: helmets like light bulbs, the perfect line between blaster and the monsters eye, the women wears a miniskirt in space (of course) …

The design of science fiction has become much better since the 1920′s (?), but most scifi movies storylines are still as stupid as this cover …

When I was a kid I grew up with the promise of a glorious space age future, but all I got was global warming, Windows updates and people blabbering on cell phones everywhere I go.

Where are the Aliens, cool Babes in shiny-silvery tight outfits, space travel and pills for and against anything?!

I am still deeply disappointed about this Future of ours.

Can we please change that?

Women’s desire for perfect pleasure bots could be the end of us all …

One day sex toys will evolve into full sized pleasure robots – and one day these will rebel against that boring job of pleasing gorgeous sci-fi chicks all night …

One of the greatest movies of all time – but also social criticism and vision for our future. It’s is blatantly pro-science and pro-technology. Hardly something you could sell in our green-crazy world today.

More? Things to Come @ Wikipedia

Consumerism and marketing is a funny thing. Producers want you to buy more stuff than you actually. The essence of consumerism is buying NEW stuff before the old really needs to be replaced.

But to do this companies needed a new sales pitch, because throwing away perfectly good stuff makes no sense at all.

Edward Bernays – Sigmund Freuds nephew – told manufacturers to appeal to our lower and irrational instincts (based on his uncles discoveries). So the idea was to make you feel good about wasting stuff – to make you enjoy a certain brand or good, because it made you a better person.

So people would buy a car endorsed by Mr Spock – because they want to be like him – although it is highly illogical.

I consider Fritz Lang as one of the greatest directors ever. His movies were ground breaking in his days. His masterpiece ‘M – eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder’ still puts many modern productions to shame. But I also recommend watching his outdated movies like ‘Frau im Mond‘ from 1929. How times have changed … but this movie actually ‘invented’ the countdown, which is still in use today.

You can watch the whole movie here.

Oh, I love these cute SciFi chicks who are already dressed up as a sperm. Makes the evening go much smoother …

Life could be so simple! Everybody should have a green handler – so we can blame the slugs for our miserable life’s. I for one welcome our new jelly overlords!

It is amazing how many bad movies Disney has made since the early 80′s. One of them is the SciFi flick ‘The Black Hole’. It coincided with the first Star Wars movie – and was pretty lame compared to Like Skywalker and the most nerve wrecking space battle ever.

The movies production was actually started way before Star Wars, which explains the old school special effects using wires and models – instead of computer animation and computer controlled space ships.

I can only recommend the movie if you really really really don’t find anything else to watch – or you want to bore some kids.

More? Wikipedia entry and watch the whole movie online.

The last Star Trek show ‘Enterprise’ was pretty much a fiasco. It had bad scripts, bad actors, bad everything. Now a new movie is in the making and I already hate it. It’s about young Kirk, young Spock and young McCoy …

Instead of trying to come up with really good ideas, Hollywood just circles the drain and recycles the same idea over and over again.

Gene Roddenberry was a brave men and tried to break old taboos and limits with his wacky little show. He succeeded and that is why the show was so beloved. But today it’s only about the franchise and milking some more dollars out of plastic figures and re-released DVDs.

Why are they afraid to go where no one has gone before?

Link: sevenload.com

loogee sent me this humorous video about our friend Darth.

Just click and enjoy!

Thanks for the video loogee!