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Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (08/26/12) Monday: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy 10/9 -- Alphas -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central (Season Finale) Saturday: 9/8 -- Dr Who -- BBC America

Saw this on Twitter.. But is true Neil Armstrong has died..

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (08/19/12) Sunday: 9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT (Season Finale) Monday: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy 10/9 -- Alphas -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (08/12/12) Sunday: 9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT Monday: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy 10/9 -- Alphas -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (08/05/12) Sunday: 9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT Monday: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy 10/9 -- Alphas -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/29/12) Monday: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy 10/9 -- Alphas -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/22/12) Sunday: 9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT Monday: 9/8 -- Warehouse 13 -- SyFy 10/9 -- Alphas -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/15/12) Sunday: 9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT Monday: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy (Final Episode) Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/08/12) Sunday: 9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT Monday: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

With Independence Day nearly upon us, it's a great time to remember all the freedom fighters who battled (fictional) baddies in sci-fi movies and on TV. From battles against aliens to foreign forces, the quest for freedom has been a part of sci-fi for decades.

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (07/01/12) Sunday: 9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT Monday: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central Also on July4th, the Twilight Zone marathon. Me I would like to see a Firefly marathon..

GOLDEN, Colo. — Mining the plentiful resources of the moon and near-Earth asteroids could alter the course of human history, adding trillions of dollars to the world economy and spurring our species' spread out into the solar system, a new breed of space enterpreneur says. A number of private companies — such as the billionaire-backed asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources — aim to start making all of this happen. But it won't be easy, as hitting extraterrestrial paydirt requires melding the know-how of the space and mining communities.

Back in 1962, a NASA rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral carrying the first satellite designed and built by British scientists. The launch made Britain the third nation ever to put a satellite into space. Over the following years, four home-grown Black Arrow rockets would take British payloads into orbit.

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (06/24/12) Sunday: 9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT Monday: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (06/17/12) Sunday: 9/8 -- Falling Skies -- TNT Monday: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy Wednesday: 10/9 -- Futurama -- Comedy Central

Small, rocky planets can coalesce around a wide variety of stars, suggesting that Earth-like alien worlds may have formed early and often throughout our Milky Way galaxy's history, a new study reveals.

China's next high point in human space travel centers on a launch this weekend, with the planned Saturday liftoff (June 16) marking a major milestone for the country's space ambitions, according to state media reports and outside analysts.

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (06/10/12) Monday: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (06/03/12) Monday: 9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy

Solar-electric propulsion (SEP) is high on NASA's list of things to do in its growing effort to develop technologies that will support long-term human space exploration. And within that arena, figuring out how to deploy large, lightweight solar arrays in space is a key enabler. Even after building the International Space Station with its 115-ft.-long array wings, the agency sees the technology readiness level (TRL) of deploying big arrays for exploration beyond low Earth orbit at 3 or 4—a long way from the demonstrated operational capability represented by TRL 9