Martians!

Here's an astonishingly clever Disney animation depicting hypothetical plants and animals on the surface of Mars. (One of my favorites is the organic flying saucer that fries its prey before enveloping the carcass.)



(Thanks to John Shirley for the tip.)

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"Peripetics"

(Thanks to Beyond the Beyond.)

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Mars animation

Here's a vision of the future of Mars exploration I can live with. Note the alien ruins (?) near the end.



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"Oxygen"

Oxygen from Christopher Hendryx on Vimeo.

(Found at Neural Dump.)

"Mr. Ando of the Woods"

This sure beats "Godzilla."

The always-amazing Pink Tentacle has the rest of the saga.

Better late than never

This has been making the rounds -- and for good reason.

The mind's eye

Enjoy hyperspace.



DMT Trip from skymonk on Vimeo.


(Thanks: The Teleomorph.)

Desktop publishing gets funky.

A CGI desktop printer achieves rudimentary sentience and undergoes a Cronenbergian metamorphosis:



(Hat tip to Greg Bishop.)

Exterminate all rational thought.

(Thanks: The Teleomorph.)

I acquired the footage below only at great difficulty, as NASA is inexplicably intent on denying its existence (if not outright destruction of the original film stock). Make of it what you will.

Some great cosmological eye-candy:



Black Hole from 360angles on Vimeo.

Want more? Pink Tentacle's got the scoop right here.

I'm up late surfing YouTube. This one's pretty good:

Ommmm . . .



(Hat tip: Beyond the Beyond.)

Three. Trillion. Dollars.



(Hat tip: Information Aesthetics.)

Although I recently posted a clip illustrating the concept of panspermia, I can't resist posting another, more poetic, depiction. Note the delightfully outdated computer graphics.

Now this is more like it . . .

A Fleet of Atomic-Electric Space Ships Embark For Mars, 1957

The spaceships (conceptualized by Ernst Stuhlinger and Werner von Braun) were 500 feet in diameter and powered by electricity generated by the atomic reactor carried in the tail. This meant they could operate continuously over a period of years. Each carried a small landing craft for descent to the Martian surface, and had quarters for 20 men (in 1957, there was no mention of female astronauts).

Lilium Urbanus envisions a blossoming organic cartoon city that reminds me a bit of Kathleen Ann Goonan's "Queen City Jazz." (That concludes today's obscure science fiction reference.)

Animated chalk-drawings scamper and metamorphose: