Whoa.

Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds—that is, until he steps into an “exoskeleton” of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.

The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that local global defense contractor Raytheon, having purchased Jameson’s company, is producing these puppies. (more…)

Einstein rose from the grave this week to slam God and His believers via a 1954 letter. Thus Spake Albert:

“The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish,” Einstein wrote.

The famed physicist also rocked the Jews some for good measure:

“For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions,” the letter said. “And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”

Burned!

Luckily, the Catholic Church struck back with the answer to one of sci-fi/theology’s most basic questions: did God create Aliens?

According to “Vatican’s chief astronomer,” which given Copernicus must be a pretty new position, the answer is yes!

The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.

In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion “doesn’t contradict our faith” because aliens would still be God’s creatures.

The interview was headlined “The extraterrestrial is my brother.” Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like “putting limits” on God’s creative freedom.

Booya! (more…)

Only a few minutes into the movie Iron Man, Tony Stark, the amoral munitions titan, is barraged with inconvenient questions from an aggressive female Vanity Fair reporter. He dismissively sums her up by assuming she attended Berkeley, to which she responds “Brown”. So, like it or not, Brown University is clearly shorthand for a certain type of left-wing bleeding-heart crusading do-gooder (and I don’t think that pie-lady helped). Okay, fine, that is nothing new — but then she jumps right into the sack with the guy! Completely betraying your core belief system just cuz he’s rich and hot? Berkeley maybe, but not our Brown gals. Ladies… man your pies!

(One more point, riding a Segway in a movie is code for — douchebag. If also bald — evil douchebag.)

Things were so much better before the internet, like when nerds had to xerox, staple, glue and mail out these amazing, early sci-fi fanzines, the covers alone are incredible. Crossed Sabers!? Must. See. Now. (via IO9.com)