Ah, they got a lot of their ideas from us, and honestly, we got ideas from them, too. (Alcubierre's "warp drive" metric in general relativity was evidently insp

Ah, they got a lot of their ideas from us, and honestly, we got ideas from them, too. (Alcubierre's "warp drive" metric in general relativity was evidently inspired by Star Trek, for instance. And I seem to recall that Arthur C. Clarke invented the concepts of geosynchronous communication satellites and the "gravitational slingshot" maneuver that's routine in spaceflight today.) The cross-pollination between science and sci-fi is something that I quite enjoy.