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 Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:04 pm
What do you think of Sci-fi is it really fiction? Or just a dream that hasn't been a complished? I mean if you think about it a lot of things that were once considered Sci-fi became Sci-nonfiction. Just think about it, cyborgs, intelligent robots, hover cars all of these things in the near furture could become sci-nonfiction. Opinoins anyone?
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:45 pm
huskie_lov9 What do you think of Sci-fi is it really fiction? Or just a dream that hasn't been a complished? I mean if you think about it a lot of things that were once considered Sci-fi became Sci-nonfiction. Just think about it, cyborgs, intelligent robots, hover cars all of these things in the near furture could become sci-nonfiction. Opinoins anyone? i have no idea, i hope that that will happen
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:05 am
I can only hope that the best bits will happen -- that our society achieves a great golden age at it's technological height.
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:59 am
i think that scifi MAY be possible, highly unlikely happening in my time, but maybe in like 2100 or something, but not all that far off.
FYI: we are perfectly capable of making a hydrogen car. There have been many patents for it, but the stupid oil companies keep buying the patents cause they want to keep squeezing us with $3 a flippin gallon, and then when the oil supply has finally depleted...o look! we just so HAPPEN to have the hydrogen car! xp
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:43 am
A lot of sci-fi is based purly on fiction. Having said that some of it could possibly happen in the near future. Many things that we have or have happened recently would have been considered impossible fiction as recent as 50 years ago.
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 10:53 pm
When StarTrek came out, it was like pure fiction, but it also gave people and scientists ideas and dreams to strive for =P So, sci-fi helps science people dream and think of new technology to make for us 3nodding
Who doesn't want to genetically alter somebody, create a monster, and have it come after them in revenge?? I VOLUNTEER! mrgreen
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:28 am
I don't remember which Sci-Fi author said this, but it makes sense. He defined Sci-fi as a story or concept that is based on technology or knowledge that can be possible in to future. Fantasy is a story or concept that is based on technology or knowledge that is not possible. Travelling close to the speed of light is a technological possibility we just don't have the technology yet to do it, thus it is considered sci-fi. Magic is not a technological possiblity, thus it is considered fantasy.
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:50 am
libbya A lot of sci-fi is based purly on fiction. Having said that some of it could possibly happen in the near future. Many things that we have or have happened recently would have been considered impossible fiction as recent as 50 years ago. I totally disagree with you on this one. All science fiction is based off reality and it's provable. Cyborgs came about from war veterans who had lost limbs and back then prostetics looked nothing like human limbs, they were shiny and metalic. Cell phones came about from StarTrek, which came about from the new wireless 2-way radios. Robots from computers, and genetic mutation from the Nazi's, mostly due to Mengele and his scientific experimentation. Hovers cars too were the product of the overactive imagination of a war mechanic who was trying to solve the problem of transportation of landmines, I believe he got the idea from humming birds. I think Sci-Fi is really a form of fiction since nothing in our world works as perfectly as it does in the science fiction worlds. Not to mention things that us author's like to imagine have impossible physical limitations, which makes it "technically" fiction. I think its good to keep an open mind though when it comes to sci-fi, because back in 1905 they all said we'd be riding around in flying cars by 2000, and we're not even past the signing of the Kyoto protocol. Anyway, I think Sci-Fi is a fun indulgence, I think it classifies as fiction, even if all the ideas all currently in use. It's just fun reading about them actually being put to use, for me at least. the Demon
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:47 am
I think some of the science fiction ideas could very well be made real. Maybe not now, or anywhere in the near future, but as science advances the more probable things seem to get.
Oddly enough, we have yet to make a working hover craft, but in Japan they are making tiny personal flying machines. They look like helicopters, but only slightly bigger than a person sitting.
So I think some idea could be very possible. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:59 pm
Im not sure, but I think it will become reality, well...some of it. I mean, before ppl thought rain and light bulbs were amazingly unexplainable and stuff, but look where we are now. Maybe someday, dragons will be ur everyday pet! blaugh
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:11 pm
sensei_ken I don't remember which Sci-Fi author said this, but it makes sense. He defined Sci-fi as a story or concept that is based on technology or knowledge that can be possible in to future. Fantasy is a story or concept that is based on technology or knowledge that is not possible. Travelling close to the speed of light is a technological possibility we just don't have the technology yet to do it, thus it is considered sci-fi. Magic is not a technological possiblity, thus it is considered fantasy. That makes a surprising amount of sense, especially considering that it came from the Nutcracker.... -LD
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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:48 pm
Kiyome the Dragon Oddly enough, we have yet to make a working hover craft, but in Japan they are making tiny personal flying machines. They look like helicopters, but only slightly bigger than a person sitting. My neighboor owns a personal hovercraft he takes out onto the lake... He's actually quite rich and back a few year ago built a small fleet of them from a very large hovercraft he acquired. If you mean, however, by hovercraft you mean a machine capabe of carrying a person(s) over 5 or more feet off the ground without traditional propellor engines or propellors in general, that's a different story.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:52 am
Desert_Demon Kiyome the Dragon Oddly enough, we have yet to make a working hover craft, but in Japan they are making tiny personal flying machines. They look like helicopters, but only slightly bigger than a person sitting. My neighboor owns a personal hovercraft he takes out onto the lake... He's actually quite rich and back a few year ago built a small fleet of them from a very large hovercraft he acquired. If you mean, however, by hovercraft you mean a machine capabe of carrying a person(s) over 5 or more feet off the ground without traditional propellor engines or propellors in general, that's a different story. The ones in the making can hold any size person, I know that much. They do have propellers, much like a helicopter, as I said above. They work differently than helicopters though, as the propellers are small, and have more control. I don't remember how they explained it workings, but the propellers do not just spin, they have some sort of free movement to catching the wind. This takes away the need for a large engine, thought I don't think it had one at all, I have to look it up again, my memory is...horrible, to say the least. sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:13 pm
Kiyome the Dragon Desert_Demon Kiyome the Dragon Oddly enough, we have yet to make a working hover craft, but in Japan they are making tiny personal flying machines. They look like helicopters, but only slightly bigger than a person sitting. My neighboor owns a personal hovercraft he takes out onto the lake... He's actually quite rich and back a few year ago built a small fleet of them from a very large hovercraft he acquired. If you mean, however, by hovercraft you mean a machine capabe of carrying a person(s) over 5 or more feet off the ground without traditional propellor engines or propellors in general, that's a different story. The ones in the making can hold any size person, I know that much. They do have propellers, much like a helicopter, as I said above. They work differently than helicopters though, as the propellers are small, and have more control. I don't remember how they explained it workings, but the propellers do not just spin, they have some sort of free movement to catching the wind. This takes away the need for a large engine, thought I don't think it had one at all, I have to look it up again, my memory is...horrible, to say the least. sweatdrop The ones my neighboor has can hold any size person...? I very much doubt the propellor's would be small, because the small the span of the propellor, the less force it has to push against gravity and its load. I'm not saying that you're saying the propellors are tiny ones. I also don't think they would have free movement, since that would be counter productive if all the propellors were constantly moving around. The physics behind a hover craft would be about six propellors, two on each side, and one in the back and front and possibly another in the middle that would be large enough to enforce. All of them would need to be stationary and pointed slightly outward to create a stable lift pattern so it wouldn't shimmy off to one side. Though, you did say your memory was kind of fuzzy, I just felt like listing some of the finer notes of hover crafts since I'm bored, overtired and other things... Anywho, REMINDER TO EVERYONE ABOUT THE WEEKLY CHALLENGE! I'm such a self-promoter... the Demon
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:29 pm
huskie_lov9 What do you think of Sci-fi is it really fiction? Or just a dream that hasn't been a complished? I mean if you think about it a lot of things that were once considered Sci-fi became Sci-nonfiction. Just think about it, cyborgs, intelligent robots, hover cars all of these things in the near furture could become sci-nonfiction. Opinoins anyone? som of the stuff in sc-fi can be done like the transporters can be doen i think some one is working on it also cloking devices are all redy in uese but they are not as advance as the one in flims
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