Saturns B movie & Assassins Creed
Saturn
Every so often it makes headlines: Radio waves from Saturn sound like sound effects and music from a B movie. It's true, too...sorta. For a variety of reasons, Saturn and many other planets (including Earth) are sources of completely natural radio wave emissions. Obviously us Earthlings are transmitting a fair amount of non-natural ones too, but if we were all to shut up simultaneously, you'd still be able to listen to the music of our Aurora Borealis. The Cassini-Huygens, probe orbiting Saturn, started picking up these same phenomena from Saturn when it arrived. Scientists recorded these signals and converted them into something we could actually hear and the results are...eerie. It sounds like something out of Doctor Who (the old ones) or the Forbidden Planet. Give it a listen: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/sounds/
Assassin's Creed
Video Games are a lot of fun and offer me the opportunity to do things I could never do in real life. Assassin's Creed is a game about one of those things. You're a medieval Assassin task to carry out a variety of missions. I don't know anything about the plot, beyond that, and I don't need to. You can never have enough bad-ass assassin games. Only one thing could kill a game like that: bad gameplay. From everything I've seen, this game won't have to worry about that, though. The cities are dynamic and the inhabitants react in complex and realistic ways. I couldn't begin to describe it well so you should just go look at it: http://www.assassinscreed.com/index.php
