GeekActually writes:
This week on Geek Actually David, Josh and Richard take a look at the weird and wonderful world of geeks. Stories include Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport, electric Deloreans, $150,000 turntables, real life levitation and holodecks, smell-o-vision and geek college courses. This plus a duet with Siri, weird food and our picks of the week.
Wiehahn Diederichs, Memeburn writes: "Sci-fi gone real is a series that focusses on the extravagant concepts dreamt up in the world of sci-fi, exploring just how close they are to becoming a reality."
Virgin Galactic's latest glide test saw VSS Unity sent up from California's Mojave Air and Space Port attached to a twin-fuselage White Knight carrier airplane.
The test, which comes more than three years since the firm's fatal crash, saw the craft manoeuvre safely to the ground from an altitude of 50,000 feet (15,000m).
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has claimed VSS Unity, the second version of the company's SpaceShipTwo, will take people on suborbital test flights by April.
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is on track to begin commercial passenger spaceflights before the end of 2018, the company's chief executive said.
