Armed and Operational

Heed and bear witness to the awesome destructive power of the SciencePatrol RSv1 ArmCannon Modification put in place by yours truly, the mad professor Cardigan. Behold the two pictures of his wrist mounted missle launcher. Gaze in wonder as the missle is fired using only RSv1's own mechanical energy. Cower as his infared sensors zero in on your MYND as its primary target. Flee as you attempt to evade the impending wave of cataclysm foretold by the sound of his servos moving his arm into position. None can withstand the 2inch plastic payload the robot unleashes in his stoic fury and robotic lack of remorse.
May Cardigan be forgiven for the calamity he has unleashed on mankind.

The Adventrues of Marilyn, 20th Century Space Goddess

...she quickly replicates as the attack ships of Zeta Reticuli warp from orbit into her neural subspace...

Blogger Doc40 has been appearing on my radar for some time, chronicling the unique sub-history of his own little sector of timespace, but it's this series of posts chronicling the adventures of the late, great Marilyn Monroe that have really caught my eye. Taking as a starting point an intriguing photo featuring our fair heroine, each episode delightfully remixes Barbarella, Burrough's Martian Barsoom stories, and the peculiar situations that Marilyn often found herself in, to exceptional effect.

Cosmic Zoom

The inspiration for this film is very similar to the Eames' brothers' Powers of 10, a film that is well beloved of everyone here at Science Patrol Central.  However, Cosmic Zoom's use of animation, its construction as a single long zoom, and its charming music have vaulted it to the forefront of my mind, and earned it a place on this blog.  It also commemorates the fact that the complete archives of the Film Board of Canada have been placed online, and that you should browse them extensively.  If I were to suggest a non-science film for your viewing, it might be The Cat Came Back, which I saw some years ago; but then again it might not, for I have not yet browsed these halls as much as I would like.  For instance, this film by the same animator also looks interesting. 

Possible Futures and Pasts, Vol. XIII

Although the soundtrack for this film is a song by the lethally terrible Metallica, do not let it dissuade you from absorbing its content.  The lesson I believe is vital to the survival of the human race....(Here is a Youtube link if the below video is corrupt)

Metallica - All Nightmare Long

Solong:Origins

Hail brave explorers. Are you receiving me? I have aligned my transponders to these frequencies to relay a message of utmost pomp and an awful lot of circumstance. In this very week, on this very timestream, The Mad Professor Yanos Solong celebrates one of his many points of corporeal origin. So hats off to Solong, and a good journey wished, as he is no doubt at this very moment patrolling the upper timesphere in search of pan-dimensional answers. In the spirit of Narpa Swordo; I and the rest of the SciencePatrol team, and all of its enthusiasts do wish a very Happy Birthday to the good Dr. Solong. May your eventualities remain stable, and may your destiny be infinite.

My Brain, She Asplode

In commemoration of the tremendous capabilities of the human mind, Jay Walker has compiled a wunderkammer of incredible objects. I was most transfixed by the Enigma machine--he might as well have an Ark of the Covenant in his library--but I would be remiss if I didn't note the numerous illustrated texts from our history of discovery and elucidation, or the amazing construction of the library itself, inspired by Escher and executed with theatrical flair. Oh, let's not forget Sputnik, the baby raptor, and "Thing" from The Addams Family.

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