#atom age scifi

[spockvarietyhour]

[vermilllionsands]

Cardboard ray-gun, 1960s

[thegynoid]

1969 Zarach TV -Design by Oliver Carby

[spaced-out-reader]

It's the attack of the mecha-wasps!

Robin Hiddon

[14dyh]

list of my saved youtube videos that Hange would watch:

A/N: someone watch this nerdy stuff with me pls, i'll go insane. need a hange for myself :') currently watching these videos to feed my nerdy hange delusions :D [i marked my faves with an (*) hehe]

short videos (10-30 minutes)

The Nightmares of Eduardo Valdés-Hevia

The Creatures of Codex Inversus

Nietzsche's Most Dangerous Idea | The Übermensch

Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them | Garry Kasparov

* Decomposing Bodies to Solve Cold Case Murders

Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures | David Gruber

* You Will Never Do Anything Remarkable

* The Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis

* Inspiring the next generation of female engineers | Debbie Sterling | TEDxPSU

The Disturbing Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch

Roko's Basilisk: The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment

The 5 Most Dangerous Chemicals on Earth

Depth Charge Explosion Soaks Dr. Tatiana In Water

Monster Surgeon: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

The Biology of Giants Explained | The Science of Giants

I Made an Ecosystem With a Mini Pond Inside, Here’s How!

CSI Special Insects Unit: Forensic Entomology

not-so-short but under 1 hr (31-59 minutes)

* The unpredictable tale of The Dead Man's Story by J. Hain Friswell

Planets: The Search for a New World | Space Science | Episode 4 | Free Documentary

* Let's Visit the World of the Future [tw: might be a bit disturbing, it's an interesting scifi horror though]

The Mystery of Matter: “INTO THE ATOM” (Documentary)

* Australia's Deadliest Coast (Full Episode) | When Sharks Attack: There Will Be Blood

* How Leonardo da Vinci Changed the World

long videos (over 1 hr)

Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind

* The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) Colorized | Sci-Fi Horror | Cult Classic | Full Movie

* AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary

Particle Fever - Documentary

* Exploring The Underwater World | 4K UHD | Blue Planet II | BBC Earth

What was the Earth like in the Age of Giant Prehistoric Creatures? | Documentary Earth History

[spacetimesally]

Other timelines, other lifetimes. A look at Spacetime Sally in different sci-fi eras: (1 & 2) Pulp Era sci-fi of the 1920s and 30s, (3) WWII Dieselpunk scifi of the 1940s, (4) Atomic Age Atompunk sci-fi of the 1950s, (5 & 6) New Wave sci-fi of the 1960s and 70s, (7) Cyberpunk sci-fi of the 1980s, and (8) Gothic sci-fi of the 1990s.

[8one6]

At one point the dream was a fully automatic house where everything was controlled by a push of a button.

We reached that future but smart appliances are a fucking nightmare. You can control everything from your phone but your smart light bulbs are all preinstalled with malware from the factory and are a part of a Russian botnet within seconds of being added to the wifi, your robot vacuum is sending the exact layout of your house to amazon, your Samsung fridge only seems to exist to serve ads instead of food, etc etc.

[germenis]

Look to the skies! "Alien Anatomy 101," the NEW Visceral Reactions sode on I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE, is available wherever you get your pod(people)casts. Click the *link in bio* for everything we’ve got! Join us for a talk on aliens learning to love & paranoia in the Atomic Age! They say you don't know someone until you live with them. Sometimes, you don't know your partner is an alien body snatcher until you're married. Marge Farrell learns this lesson the hard way when she marries Bill Bradley. Cold, emotionally distant, and silent--behavior that isn't so out of place when all of the men in town are actually from OUTER SPACE. Who will listen to Marge's concerns that her husband isn't the person she thought he was? The police captain? Bill's friends? Matthew and Quinton? If you picked the last choice, you guessed right! We're discussing this 1958 sci-fi classic from Gene Fowler Jr. to celebrate its 65th anniversary! Topics range from gender politics and paranoia to figuring out how aliens can mate with humans. And we have something special for this episode! Since the show's about to turn ONE YEAR OLD, we decided to have an award ceremony for all the films we've covered in 2022. Curious as to what films and performances we loved the most? Then stick around for the final third of the episode. We had fun doing it, and we hope you have fun listening! - - #horror #horrormovies #film #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #moviepodcast #horrorpodcast #visceralreactions #sciencefiction #scifi #scifihorror #aliens #bodysnatcher #imarriedamonsterfromouterspace #atomicage #1950smovies #coldwarera #bmovies https://www.instagram.com/p/CnJcrAjO4o-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[landsraad]

[gulyas069]

entering the industrial age created the concept of science fiction as a way to engage with techno-societal upheavals in a literary fashion. subsequently the age of ideologies in the 30s and 40s gave us Isaac Asimov's early work and inspired Dune, entering the atomic age and the realization of space travel created the golden age of scifi, and the digital revolution of the 90s spawned a broad assortment of japanese and western science fiction exploring the ramifications of information technology, from The Matrix and the Hyperion Cantos to Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain and Blame!.

and now, the tech industry has been running in overdrive since the advent of smart technology and is only picking up steam, while there's a complete dearth of cultural engagement with these new technologies. either we live in a goddamn terrible cultural moment or this is a great indicator that the tech industry has not achieved any socially relevant technology at all, solely relying and scams within existing frameworks.

it's not a tech industry at all anymore, it's an extension of the finance industry

(lack of) science fiction as an indicator of the scam nature of the modern tech industry

[vermilllionsands]

Space Patrol helmets

[catalysisrp]

Radioactivity is nothing to be afraid of!

CATALYSIS

[vintagegeekculture]

Murphy Anderson cover featuring the Spectre dueling his opposite number, Shathan the Eternal. It is one of the few DC Comics to visually depict the Prophet Muhammad, which Islam generally views as being in bad taste.

The Spectre, a vengeful force created by Superman creator Jerry Siegel after he was mugged one night, was one of the last of the 1940s heroes to be revived in the 1960s, mainly because as a ghost of a murdered police officer who rose from the grave for revenge, he was at odds with the hyper-rational, atomic age pulp scifi informed DC Comics created by former scifi fandom members. Even here, Shathan the Eternal is less a traditional devil and more similar to a quantum physics and other dimensional take on demons, reminiscent of John Carpenter's approach in Prince of Darkness which mingled Satanism with particle physics.

Pulp fans will recognize two different references to pulp scifi, as per the course in 60s DC Comics, created by former fandom members:

The title "Beyond the Sinister Barrier" is a reference to the 1930s pulp novel "Sinister Barrier," by Eric Frank Russell. Because it was horror/fantasy as opposed to the typical hard science demanded of his audience, John W. Campbell created the pulp magazine Unknown specifically to publish it, possibly the best fantasy magazine of its decade.

Shathan the Eternal is a reference to the Shaver Mystery (one of the most bizarre incidents in scifi fandom history and a very recent and strange controversy at the time of this publication), which featured a villainous giant devil by that name.

[labyrinthofcrystals]

some obscure shows I watched as a kid

because sometimes I feel like I clipped into another dimension when I was younger

Hip hop Harry

Ruby Gloom

Atomic Betty

Growing Up Creepie

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures

Grossology

Imagination Movers

The Goodnight Show

64 Zoo Lane

Kipper

Cosmic Quantum Ray

& more, but most of these aired on Discovery Kids / Discovery Family / The Hub (+ a few on Sprout), which I find pretty interesting. 

[grayrazor]

The things you have to do to unload cargo from a tailsitter rocket.

art by John Pederson (1958)