Kung Fu Sherlock Holmes meets Dr. Strange master of the mystic arts...

..... What's not to love?

The film is called

Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame and came out in Chinese in 2010 and has been translated into English.

I want to see this one!

They use to call them Flaps.

Back long in the long ago we use to call them flaps, UFO Flaps, times where sighting spiked like crazy, seems we're having one now.

Dozens of odd sightings all over the world, such as just these three, starting with a “Scorpion-shaped” UFO seen in the skies over Los Cristianos, Spain.

That's no Scorpion!

Clear UFOs?

And of course a HUGE one.

Those are just 3 of many many more in the last few months, and yet no one calls them flaps anymore.

Ah well.

Weird Cool Stuff in Space and Near Space

Someone call the Justice League its...........

STARRO!

However, do note that while 11,000 miles an hour is fast, they are working on a missile that will best that by going 14,340 miles an hour and will, as soon as they can get it to work, be able to reach any where on Earth in under an hour.

Plus

This is the sound a shooting star makes

WHOOOSH zuzuzuzuzuz

Then there is the following bit of way out there weirdness.

That's no Moon!
Anyway, lot of cool stuff in space this week.

Mad Cow disease, Ebola, Bird Flu, Now Brain Eating Ameba?

Three Die From Brain Eating Amoebas

Mad Cow disease, Ebola, bird flu, now brain eating ameba?

That’s really scary, or course it would be just as scary if they were kidney eating amoebas, or lung eating amoebas, but no one has ever felt the need to make a movie about big boo-gums that  want to eat our kidneys,  or lungs have they? That would be silly.

And so we have all the various popular films where there are all sorts of large nasty critters and / or things and / or former people that want to eat our brains, even if by themselves all they are is mainly fat and water.  (I mean our brains, not the things that want to eat them)

This is why things like these amoebas are extra creepy. They sort of do what make believe things do.

As a totally irrelevant, completely off the topic side note to this, why are there no diseases that cause pleasure while they devourer you?

Seems to me that evolutionarily speaking it would be a natural.

Virus or bacteria or ameba X-Unknown wants to get into a host body, let’s say you, and start multiplying and eating. The immune system of your body reacts and you get chills and fever and what not to fight it, at the same time when we notice it we do what we can to help our immune system.

But what if a disease instead of making a person fill like the dog’s breakfast, made the host feel great, or even more energetic, while it went about its business of eating your brain, or pancreas or liver?

Sure the old stogy immune system would still make with the white blood cells and such, but we would more than likely turn quisling on our own bodies and try and help the invader survive!

Perhaps evolution isn’t as bright as we thought it was, or might some of the things we know are bad for us, but we still do anyway, not really bad habits, or just bad habits, but indeed a subtle and highly evolved virus or bacteria or ameba X-Unknown at work?

That is of course ridiculous because.

I’m sorry, I have to stop, the dinger telling me the triple chocolate chip cookies I was making for diner are ready.

NPR's Top 100 Fantasy & Science Fiction Books

From a pole run by NPR in which more than 60,000 people voted.

Here are the winners of their Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books

Top 100 Fantasy & Science Fiction Books

To show my geek creds are still stronge, I've read more than two thirds of those books over the years.

However my listing of them in no way matchs the way this list turned out.

But seriously Wicked? Some Star Wars trilogy? eeep.

And there would have been some Philip Jose Farmer and Simon R. Green on mine.

Good News Everyone!

As a reminder this was “The Mysterious Tunguska Event.”

Sagan on Tunguska

That is something went BOOOM in Siberia.

Might the answer to that mystery be this?

Meanwhile in Orbit

Even if it isn't, it still seems to say that there is anti-matter orbiting near Earth.

Grand.

Before the Four

Here it is, almost 50 years since the premier of Fantastic Four # 1, the comic book that would eventually help change the whole comic book industry.

And I’m sure there will be some whoop de do about it, but what about the time just before FF # 1? Or for that matter what was going on around it when it first came out?

Well take a look, the issues here are the 8 magazines that were being published by Marvel at the time and came out the either one or two months before Fantastic Four # 1, or with a couple, the same month as FF # 1.

Can we conclude anything from this?

Cowboys, Millie the Model and big orange Kirby monsters beating the crap out of empty warehouses.

Yes… Marvel REALLY needed the Fantastic Four!