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Because science fiction never becomes science fact?
by swader999 5y ago
Because science fiction never becomes science fact?
- hh3k0 5y agoBeen a while since I've seen someone quote Fox Mulder.
- ben_w 5y agoMainly 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...