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10 Fun Facts You Never Knew About 'Back to the Future'!
When it comes to sci-fi movies, I've never seen one better than Back to the Future. The 1985 time travel classic has humor, heart, and iconic scenes that will stay with us forever. And as a little tribute to my favorite movie of all time, I'm gonna tell you ten fun facts about Back to the Future.
By Jonathan Sim8 years ago in Futurism
A Monster Within
There was a place in which the world was smaller but more diverse. This place was commonly known as Verice. It was a dwarf planet inside its own solar system in a dimension nearly connected to the dimension of the human race. But in this realm, monsters were more than legend. As real as they were, there still lived a version of humans who populated the world ten thousand to one. Some would find it lucky to be born as a monster, but recently, they were afraid to be one. The humans began to fear them and in that fear, they became violent. The safety of their children is the excuse they would use to justify such acts of savagery. Quite sad the times have become...
By Starlight Wolfe8 years ago in Futurism
The Absurdly Curious Story of Michael Staats Chapter Two
Conrad had set a pot of what Michael assumed was a kettle of tea on a contraption similar to a stove, except it was clearly not a stove. For this contraption unleashed a small army of creatures which looked strikingly similar to prunes onto the tea kettle. All at once, the started shrinking down and vibrating, with each movement producing more and more energy until they all disintegrated simultaneously into ashes back into the stove-like machine. In their place floated small magenta balls of apparently extraordinarily powerful energy, for when they pelted the tea kettle, they caused a combustion-like reaction, making the kettle heat up and jump. From start to finish, the entire process took approximately thirty seconds. Whatever sort of self-sustaining energy this was, it certainly made the tea heat up quickly.
By Joe Schuler8 years ago in Futurism
Review of 'Humans' 3.5
On the eve of the Fourth of July in America earlier this week, it was good to see the synths in Humans 4.5 making progress towards independence, even though the show has been moved from 10 PM to the less desirable 11 PM hour by AMC, thank you.
By Paul Levinson8 years ago in Futurism
Han May Have Gone Solo in This 'Star Wars' Story but I Wasn’t
I said I wasn’t going to give out any more money to this bankrupt Star Wars franchise. But, I had hope for this Star Wars story, and when my friend suggested Solo to escape the obtrusive July 4th heat, I jumped at the chance.
By Rich Monetti8 years ago in Futurism
Review of Naomi Alderman's 'The Power'
Never one to be pigeon-holed, Naomi Alderman is a British novelist, game writer, and radio host. Her debut novel, Disobedience, published in 2006, immerses the reader into an Orthodox Jewish community through the eyes of a rabbi’s lesbian daughter. Controversial, the novel was critically acclaimed and the San Francisco Chronicle described the story as “acerbic and self-aware.” The Sunday Times named her their Young Writer of the Year in 2007 and Waterstones included Alderman in their 25 Writers of the Future. Her second novel, The Lessons, was published in 2010 and her third novel, The Liars’ Gospel, followed in 2012. Alderman became the professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University in 2012 and was included in the British Granta list of 20 best young writers in 2013. During the writing of The Power, Margaret Atwood selected Alderman as her protégé as a part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, an international philanthropic program, pairing masters with emerging talents.
By K.E. Lanning8 years ago in Futurism
A Fictional Reality
Dreams. Fictional realities. Created from my own imagination, built from past memories. Newfound experiences that I would wake up remembering and puzzling over. They could be good, bad, funny. Even sadistic. I try not to remember the dark ones. Yet, they are the ones that I remember the most. The ones that leave you in a transient state of anxiety when you wake up. That feeling of dread when you can’t figure out whether it is real or not. It’s strange how our brains seem to reminisce our darkest memories as if they are the more powerful. Good conquers evil. That’s the way it’s supposed to be. I still can’t decide whether what happened to me was good or bad. If anything the confusion was what overwhelmed me. It begged me to ask the question: Am I normal?
By Morgan Georgia Blanks8 years ago in Futurism
Evidence for Life on a Saturn Moon
The search for intelligent life outside of our pale blue dot is a bold one indeed and has been going on for quite some time. Going back as far as we can into human history and even prehistory, people have looked to the stars in search of answers. Where does this all come from? How and why is the existence of our universe as we know it possible? Possibly one of the most eerie questions in this field of thought: are we alone?
By Corey groves8 years ago in Futurism
The Great Plastic Gyre Patch
Plastic pollution is a huge global crisis that nobody is paying attention to right now except those of us who bother to read about it. Plastic finds its way onto beaches, according to Environmental Protection: What Everybody Needs To Know, since there is “4.8 to 12.7 metric tons” (56), of plastic in the ocean, increasing by the day or by the year. However we measure it, many politicians put climate change on 'ignore', in particular, Republicans. The North Pacific Gyre or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Futurism
