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Amazing sea floor maps reveal California’s offshore depths

The California Seafloor Mapping Program is the most extensive of its kind, initiated in 2008 and bearing fruit in a series of beautiful maps. Read the rest

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Alien drawing from 1906 edition of War of the Worlds sells for $32k

Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s fantastically beautiful pen & ink drawings for a 1906 special edition of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds were a hit at Heritage Auctions’ recent illustration art auction . Read the rest

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Alien drawing from 1906 edition of War of the Worlds sells for $32k

Could this beautiful game signal the end of our dystopia fetish?

Over the past decade or so, gritty, apocalyptic worlds were the favored setting of popular video games, and machinelike cyber-dystopias were a reliable aesthetic before that. But No Man’s Sky , a highly-anticipated upcoming world, is infinite and hopeful. Read the rest

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Whoa, it’s Zelda: A Link To The Past’s world map, in living detail

“Friendly tag-based Javascript animators” JADSDS have made a gigantic HMTL5 map of the overworld from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past , also known as the best Zelda . Read the rest

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Whoa, it’s Zelda: A Link To The Past’s world map, in living detail