Peak visibility for Comet Lulin will be on Monday night, but the viewing is good all weekend with the right sky. Sky and Telescope has the details you will need to spot it yourself, and APOD just had a good picture of this green visitor. We are also pointing some other observational resources at it, like the Swift spacecraft, which is looking at it in the ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths.
Terrestrial Human
The trailer for the new abbreviated Torchwood season was aired at Comicon the other weekend, and is now all over the net. John Barrowman and his sister have put together a story for Captain Jack… and it’s also a comic book, coming out soon.
Joss Whedon has just won a Bradbury Award for best screenwriter… what a surprise!
The first of the new Red Dwarf specials, with the title Back to Earth, is in production now. It will be aired on Dave TV about Easter or so, and will hopefully be available on DVD for the rest of the world not long after that. Of course, there are already spoilers online, this being the internet and all. If you are not sure if you are ready for more Dwarf, take the quiz and see how you do. I didn’t do as well as I expected, getting the result:
You scored: 7/10
Whoah, man, cool scoring! You’re certainly no Duane Dibley. Feel free to hang with the Cat and strut your stuff anytime.
The new DVD for Dead Like Me: Life After Death hits the shelves tomorrow. Kind of sad when the official homepage just says coming soon for the movie. The Brit TV show Demons has finished it’s first season, although you can still watch episodes from their home page if you live in the right postal code. SFX has a Demons Calendar you can install to your desktop, which will populate each day with information about the UK’s most haunted places. And MSN has just revealed the first full length trailer for Transformers II over on their video page.
Biologists and geneticists have enlisted folks from companies like Google and Adobe to figure out a way to display the massive amount of evolutionary data in a way that allows a mere human to make sense out of it, according to this NY Times story. The Daily Galaxy also mentioned the article, as did Discover Magazine and quite a few others. This is one field where the data and evidence is overwhelming, in the literal sense; there is so much of it, it is difficult to visualize the patterns it creates. The first steps have been taken, with the open source PhyloWidget, which you can use online or download to run locally. I am looking forward to seeing how this one develops; achieving the full project as envisioned will be even more impressive than Google Earth, another massive collection of data rendered into something useful.