time travel, parallel universes, and other useful illusions
Here’s something that slipped by me a few months ago: A group called On-Art Corp in Tokyo unvieled their 8m tall (26 ft) mechanical suit robot dinosaurs back in November. You can check them out in the above video. They’re apparently TRX03 robots with human operators inside (who, as far as I can tell, walk …
I saw the original Jurassic Park in theatres back in 1993. I was maybe 7-8 years old, and of course it was the most awesome thing ever. The velociraptors. The dilophosaurus (personal favorite). The tyrannosaurus rex. That scene where Lex gets sneezed on by a brachiosaurus. Perfect. So, yeah, I’m excited by the news that …
All this talk about genetic engineering and cloning has got me thinking about Jurassic Park. And what do you know? A group of fans are hard at work on a new game (well, a Half-Life 2 mod) called Jurassic Life, rendering Isla Nublar in Valve’s Source Engine. You can see their progress in the above video. …
