68 Must See Sci-Fi Sites in the United States
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Ah, the road trip. For millions of Americans, the road trip is a chance to get out and explore all of the amazing things this wonderful country of ours has to offer. Of course, no road trip would be complete without sightseeing, which is why the good folks at Sci Fi Wire put together this downloadable map of the country’s 68 best Sci-Fi attractions. I can’t say I’ve hit too many of these spots myself, except for Chicago, which isn’t exactly special since I live there), but they sound like plenty of fun. If I had my druthers (and boy do I like saying druthers), I’d visit the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle. Any of you faithful Screen Rant readers have any insights into these destinations?
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Movie and Television Timeline
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Time travel has always been a popular plot device in science-fiction, and it’s no wonder why. Time travel allows characters to go anywhere and do practically anything. Of course, the practical ramifications of time travel are rarely discussed in sci-fi movies. For instance, with all of these movie characters flying through time, wouldn’t they have run into each other at some point? This question has been answered beautifully by David McCandless, Dominic Busby, and Alice Cho of informationisbeautiful.net.
Coming our way again via io9, the above chart tracks dozens of popular movies and television shows that feature time travel (everything from Austin Powers to Terminator) and where in time they intersect. The chart also displays the method of time travel used by the time travelers (alien technology, time machine, etc.).
While definitely an awesome looking graphic, I did notice a couple of inconsistencies right off the bat. For one, how come there’s a line for Back to the Future 1 & 2 that shows they traveled by time machine and another line for Back to the Future 2 & 3 that shows they used an unknown method of time travel? Wasn’t Doc Brown’s famous DeLorean the time travel device in all three films? Let me know if you find any other errors or inconsistencies.
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So, what do you think of all of these charts? Which one is your favorite?
Sources: GeekTyrant, Orbit Books (via io9), Sci Fi Wire, informationisbeautiful.net (via io9)
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Time Travel, they have two Austin Powers movies there, one is pink for “unknown method of time travel.” The other blue for “alien technology.” But we all know they should be white for “deep freeze.”
Weird, I always thought Mr Stay Puft and Godzilla (Japanese ver) were about the same size. Hmmmm. Whats interesting (to me at least) is that chart is almost in exact inverse order of coolness as well!
Didn’t even look at the time travel chart, just looks like someone went mad with a sparkler…
I’ve actually been to the Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum in Atlantic City, NJ. It’s a pretty cool place.
C’mon Jordi, Godzilla is one of, if not THE best, movie monsters of all time. And going by that chart, there is no way the King Kong vs. Godzilla should have even been close. Godzilla would have stomped him and flamed him. The big ape wouldn’t have stood a chance.
@Andy S
I love big G! I even have a soft spot for Mecha-Godzilla
but the big-budget western version… erm no. That just blew. Not to mention the theme song was terrible, if I wanted to hear Kashmir desecrated like that I’d sample it myself! 
how about this devoted to starship sizes from everything from Star Trek to Ringworld
http://www.merzo.net/
What about Dr. Who? He should have ran into about everybody. What about those intrepid travelers of the “Time Tunnel?”
That monster size chart looks very off too on some of them…