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10 Greatest Handguns in All of Science Fiction and Fantasy [io9]

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10 Greatest Handguns in All of Science Fiction and Fantasy:

10) Mal Reynolds’ Sidearm (Firefly)

We weren’t really sure whether to include this one, but it got by far the most votes in our Facebook poll. (There’s just something about Browncoats and polls.) And you have to admit, it is a gorgeous piece of ordnance. According to this super-detailed gun-related website, it’s an antique-styled weapon, but judging from the sound effect, it uses some unknown futuristic propellant. Like everything on Firefly, it’s retro but also futuristic.

9) Deckard’s hand-cannon (Blade Runner)

By all accounts this gun shoots explosive shells, meaning it makes quite a mess if Deckard decides he didn’t like your responses to those turtle questions. And it’s a big scary gun, with some rifle characteristics as well as bits of a basic .44. It’s got intimidation as well as blasting power.

8) The Lawgiver Mk II (Judge Dredd)
7) The Needler (The Stainless Steel Rat and Halo)

6) The Colt (Supernatural)

We have to give some props to a gun that can kill almost anything. It’s the ultimate magic gun! Made by gun-maker Samuel Colt (whom we met last week), this gun is enchanted with such powerful spells, it can kill even the most powerful demons and beasties. There’s only a few supernatural creatures whom the gun won’t work on… including one of the most important evildoers in the Supernatural mythos. Still, it’s a great plot device and an awesome object for your mystical gun fetishism.

5) Winona (Farscape)
4) The Noisy Cricket (Men In Black)
3) The DL-44 Heavy Blaster (Star Wars)
2) The Good Samaritan (Hellboy)
1) The mighty Phaser (Star Trek)

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Stargate Universe Season 2.5 – Space Channel Promo (Canada)

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•READ: 5 Wolverine stories we hope Darren Aronofsky reads before making his movie: Wolverine is becoming as prolific in movies as he is in comics — and now we need some quality control. Here are five Wolverine moments from the comics that we hope Darren Aronofsky and other film-makers read before filming Logan.
•READ: Court rules teen’s sock fire not arson: A New Zealand appellate court tossed out an arson conviction for a teenager who lit his socks on fire and wound up burning down a garage. The High Court in Wellington overturned the earlier Youth Court ruling convicting the 14-year-old of arson for the April 14 incident in the garage of a friend’s parents, The Dominion Post reported Monday. The boy admitted he lit his socks on fire, which he said he had done several times before without incident, and when he stomped his foot to extinguish the flame it ignited a carpet soaked with gasoline from an earlier spill. The boy and his friends attempted to extinguish the fire, but the garage burned down, police said. “(He) was 14 years old, and although his intelligence appeared to the (Youth Court) judge to be average, average 14-year-old boys may do things without any thought of the risks involved, even when they have been told about the risks on other occasions,” Justice Jill Mallon said in the High Court ruling.

•READ: ‘Chupacabra’ to get DNA test: A Kentucky man said he sent a DNA sample of an animal some have compared to the legendary Chupacabra to state officials for identification…Laura Higgason with the Humane Society and Animal Control of Nelson County dismissed the idea of a Chupacabra. “It’s a coyote with mange, come on. And of course, this animal is too small to be a coyote, but I saw the photos and it looks like it’s probably a raccoon or an opossum with mange. It’s not a mysterious animal,” Higgason said. “A cat’s got retractable claws, and this you can see the claws. The paws are different than a raccoon and it’s definitely not an opossum.”

•READ: Gingerbread Serenity is the sweetest ship in the ‘Verse: Check out more photos of this sugary starship on Facebook [via GeekDad].

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•READ: Nathan Fillion brags: Unlike Han Solo, Mal Reynolds shoots first:

The lads from Geeks vs. Nerds aimed to settle one of sci-fi’s longstanding debates: Who’s the better rogue smuggler, Star Wars‘ Han Solo or Firefly‘s Mal Reynolds? And guess who was called in to make a case?

Last Saturday, at Halifax, Nova Scotia’s HAL-CON convention, the Geeks vs. Nerds improv troupe held a panel that wanted to determine, once and for all, who was the better deliverer of illegal goods in a sci-fi milieu, the scruffy-looking nerf-herder or Captain Tightpants.

The GvN crew pleaded their respective cases, as did members of the audience, but the final word came from Nathan Fillion himself, who called in to the panel and listed the four ways the Serenity‘s captain trumps the dude who drives the Millennium Falcon.

Among them: “Malcolm Reynolds is a man with a plan. Certainly, plans do not always go his way, but he is a man with a plan. Solo, on the other hand, is making it up as he goes along.”

Fillion chimes in at around 24 minutes into this salty, occasionally NSFW podcast.

Click here to visit the Geeks Versus Nerds podcast

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•READ: Shopper overcharged for veggies after cashier’s breasts tip the scale:

An investigation has been launched by a British supermarket into the sales of its fruit and vegetables after a shopper was overcharged by cashier whose breasts tipped the scales. The shopper raised the alarm at the Channel Islands Co-operative store in Bailiwick of Jersey after she noticed the employee’s breasts were resting on the scales while she was weighing her vegetables, the BBC reports. The woman was accidentally charged an extra $8, which has been refunded, according to Jim Hopley, the chief executive of the company Hopley said the cashier’s chair had been set too low which caused her breasts to rest on the scales. Her chair has since been adjusted and the till receipts checked to see if anyone else had been overcharged. Hopley called the incident “unfortunate” and said he felt bad for the cashier who “was totally mortified.”

A Shepherd’s Tale

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Firefly’s Shepherd Book, one of the more enigmatic of the show’s characters, is about to get the graphic novel treatment via Dark Horse.

Ron Glass is interviewed by Optimus Douche, of Ain’t it Cool :

OD: No doubt, since it’s been, what, five years since “Serenity” the movie was in theaters. So, how does it feel to come back to the FIREFLY universe for this origin prequel?

RG: This is a great opportunity for me and I think it will be a thrill for Serenity fans. All of the questions they’ve been asking me at the conventions over the years will finally be answered. I know the fans are going to go crazy because this book will be packed with some really wonderful stuff.

There’s lots more at this link, so please go on and read the rest!

Reboot These Sci-Fi Shows Next

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Of course the list would start with Firefly. If ever there was a series that cried out for more seasons, it was this show. So it tops the list. I’ll highlight the rest of my faves and you can check out the link at Wired for the rest:

Reboot These Sci-Fi Shows Next, Wired.com Readers Plead

Scott Thill/Wired

#1: Firefly

Bring back Firefly!!! –Trev

More Firefly! Although that doesn’t need to be reimagined — quite daft at core. Zombies in a 40-planet solar system. No faster-than-light travel, but daft from another direction. –galfridus

More Firefly, and original science-fiction programming in general. The scripts are out there; it’s not rocket science. Take a risk. –Damob21

Firefly. No question about it. –samunj

Read More http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/01/readers-picks-sci-fi-tv-reboots/all/1#ixzz0cK4iaiWd

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