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What paranormal stuff? Are you calling aliens paranormal?

baxtr 8y ago
I was referring to the protomolcule stuff, clearly to explainable by our current understanding of science Citing Wikipedia: Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.
- laumars 8y ago
  In that case 99% of sci-fi would be classed as "paranormal". Be it warp drives, replicators, holodecks, teleporters, deep space communication platforms, shapeshifting lifeforms / changelings (DS9), ascended lifeforms (SG1) / the Q (TNG), aliens that drink lifeforce (Atlantis), artificial lifeforms, cold fusion bombs / red matter (or pretty much anything from those shitty Star Trek reboots). And lets not forget time travel. I think it's also worth remembering that the "fi" part of "sci-fi" actually stands for "fiction" and not "factual information" :P
  - baxtr 8y ago
    True :-) I just liked that about the expanse that everything else was really realistic. Achievable by humans within the next couple of hundred years
- aaron695 8y ago
  You are right in that the Expanse is far far from Hard SciFi, but it's probably in the top 1% since people really don't get FTL is just a plan nut job level idea. Protomolcule does go nutty (FTL, disrespecting inertia, gravity and stuff)but I didn't mind personally, I also like magic shows. But the human stuff is not bad, which is why a lot of people love it. There's a huge section of it that kinda has some respect for science. But it's not Paranormal IMO because everyone can see it happening, hence it's normal (In this universe) I would not say a movie where ghosts are everywhere in society and everyone sees them a paranormal movie.
- Paradigma11 8y ago
  The protomolecule is magic not paranormal. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke -"

I was referring to the protomolcule stuff, clearly to explainable by our current understanding of science Citing Wikipedia: Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.

laumars 8y ago
In that case 99% of sci-fi would be classed as "paranormal". Be it warp drives, replicators, holodecks, teleporters, deep space communication platforms, shapeshifting lifeforms / changelings (DS9), ascended lifeforms (SG1) / the Q (TNG), aliens that drink lifeforce (Atlantis), artificial lifeforms, cold fusion bombs / red matter (or pretty much anything from those shitty Star Trek reboots). And lets not forget time travel. I think it's also worth remembering that the "fi" part of "sci-fi" actually stands for "fiction" and not "factual information" :P
- baxtr 8y ago
  True :-) I just liked that about the expanse that everything else was really realistic. Achievable by humans within the next couple of hundred years
aaron695 8y ago
You are right in that the Expanse is far far from Hard SciFi, but it's probably in the top 1% since people really don't get FTL is just a plan nut job level idea. Protomolcule does go nutty (FTL, disrespecting inertia, gravity and stuff)but I didn't mind personally, I also like magic shows. But the human stuff is not bad, which is why a lot of people love it. There's a huge section of it that kinda has some respect for science. But it's not Paranormal IMO because everyone can see it happening, hence it's normal (In this universe) I would not say a movie where ghosts are everywhere in society and everyone sees them a paranormal movie.
Paradigma11 8y ago
The protomolecule is magic not paranormal. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke -"