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Obligatory shout out to The day after tomorrow.

• ben_w 5y ago
  Please don’t. Fiction isn’t evidence, and there are too many people who don’t want anyone to believe in reality who will mock those who are trying to create solutions to the real problems as if the fiction is the only thing which exists.
  • swader999 5y ago
    Because science fiction never becomes science fact?
    • hh3k0 5y ago
      Been a while since I've seen someone quote Fox Mulder.
    • ben_w 5y ago
      Mainly because of the reasons I just gave. Also because even though stopped clocks are right twice a day, you shouldn’t use them for timekeeping — Fiction can be satire, or have a social message, or be hard science to give a narrative explanation to confusing-but-real physics, but it can also be Harry Potter, The Hobbit… or the wildly implausible specific events and timescales in The Day After Tomorrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow#Political_and_scientific_criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow#Politic...