Absolutely, in the same way that there are tabloid forms of journalism, citizen, and authoritative forms, also. For me the distinction is in the nature of spec

Absolutely, in the same way that there are tabloid forms of journalism, citizen, and authoritative forms, also. For me the distinction is in the nature of speculation. If you speculate about some facet, and it seems feasible but fantastic, this is the event horizon at which the subject becomes useful as well as entertaining. It was no doubt of great utility to the original developers of satellites to have had Arthur C. Clarkes' models in their minds. However, its hardly viable to speculate about regular use of teleportation or faster than light travel .. unless, of course, we end up getting these things because some kid read a story and decided it could be done, in spite of the rest of the worlds feeling about it ..