Daily Archives: 2016-02-12

Gaming, Tributes

Magic: The Gathering artists pass away

Magic: The Gathering was very popular with many MonSFFen, and I’m sure many will have albums with cards featuring art work by these talented artists.

Christopher Rush  illustrated over 100 cards for the series, including the most expensive card in the game, the Black Lotus (currently offered on eBay for $3,900.)   Tribute to Christopher Rush on the Wizards of the Coast website features his stunning art.

Wayne England, worked on a variety of iconic franchises over the decades from Magic the Gathering, to Dungeons & Dragons, to all things Games Workshop. Tribute on the Wizards of the Coast  website features several beautiful cards.
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I don’t game, but I do appreciate beautiful art, and these were great artists. Creating something that is still beautiful when printed on a playing card is a skill in itself.

 

Movies, Television

Why don’t they make what I want to see?

This is the title to a panel discussion scheduled for the October MonSFFA meeting. 

I know it’s still a long way to October, but I saw this list of novels and short stories being made into movies & TV shows and thought it a perfect kick-off to this discussion. I seriously wonder if some of these are even possible–The Wheel of Time? Even with all the advances in medical science, I doubt I would live long enough to see the whole series.

I notice the same names cropping up over and over–Gaiman, Martin, Williams, King, for instance. They have proven track records.

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Phrases like based on, adapted from, really worry me. I don’t usually bother to watch TV shows or movies based on books as I’m always disappointed in the results.

Anyway, take a look at this listing, and do comment on what you think you would like to see, or not see.

Astronomy News, REMOTE SENSORS

Very long range sensors detect…

  • A wrinkle in time: Gravity Waves prove Einstein right!
  • Water on Pluto
  • The sky this week-naked eye observing
  • Blast from black hole in a galaxy far, far away
  • Antarctic fungi survive martian conditions on ISS

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BHsim-600Gravity Waves Detected:  LIGO scientists have announced the direct detection of gravitational waves, a discovery that won’t just open a new window on the cosmos — it’ll smash the door wide open. Read more in Sky and Telescope, lots of pictures, graphs, diagrams….Also read more from Astronomy Magazine, though I found the format of the page rather strange.

Water on Pluto: Data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto’s surface than previously thought.  Read More from Astronomy Magazine

The sky this week:  Check out the winter constellations, most of the observations mentioned in this article are visible to the naked eye. The winter hexagon is easily picked, even in light polluted skies of Montreal.  From Sky and Tel.  Printable star chart for February can be found here.

Blast from black hole in a galaxy far, far away:  The Pictor A Galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its center, and a huge amount of gravitational energy is released as material swirls toward the event horizon. From Astronomy Magazine, read more.

Antarctic fungi survive martian conditions on ISS: Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys are the most Mars-like place on Earth. They make up one of the driest and most hostile environments on our planet, where strong winds scour away even snow and ice.  Read about ISS experiment.