Sci Fiction and The Role it plays in our Future.

[parietal_03]

I was beginning to engage in discussion the allusions of Science Fiction (in whatever form) with a fellow poster in "Equality for all, without God".
Don't want to disrupt the context of that thread anymore than I already have, so I'd like to start a new one here.
Are you a fan or enjoyed observer of science fiction?

Do you believe that there are parallels to science fiction and today's reality?
Would it be foolhardy to call Science Fiction more than just a genre, but a faith that gives flight and fancy to innovative ideas (to an extent) that allow the race to progress?
**And no, I don't mean the adopted Jedi Religion... What I mean by that is faith in the form of theories that upon becoming established fact enables us to draw power from metals, stones and plastics with the result end being a computer.
Man, eh! Even if you ain't into that as CG and Truthseeker call it "psuedo-metaphysical mumbo jumbo" and you just want to argue over who'd win in a "sci-fi clash", Odo or Data. Please, post your thoughts.

Personally, I'd like to see Luke Skywalker (from Star Wars) get his butt handed to him by Muad'Dib from Dune.

By the way, Data'd get break so fast!

[CG]

I was beginning to engage in discussion the allusions of Science Fiction (in whatever form) with a fellow poster in "Equality for all, without God".
Don't want to disrupt the context of that thread anymore than I already have, so I'd like to start a new one here.
Are you a fan or enjoyed observer of science fiction?

Do you believe that there are parallels to science fiction and today's reality?
Would it be foolhardy to call Science Fiction more than just a genre, but a faith that gives flight and fancy to innovative ideas (to an extent) that allow the race to progress?
**And no, I don't mean the adopted Jedi Religion... What I mean by that is faith in the form of theories that upon becoming established fact enables us to draw power from metals, stones and plastics with the result end being a computer.
Man, eh! Even if you ain't into that as CG and Truthseeker call it "psuedo-metaphysical mumbo jumbo" and you just want to argue over who'd win in a "sci-fi clash", Odo or Data. Please, post your thoughts.

Personally, I'd like to see Luke Skywalker (from Star Wars) get his butt handed to him by Muad'Dib from Dune.

By the way, Data'd get break so fast!

Did I call it pseudo-metaphysical mumbo jumbo? :) Well, perhaps some of it is. :) Then again it can still be entertaining. It can inspire thought.

I enjoy reading anything by Arthur Clarke and I subscribe to his "Second Law" - "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

Science Fiction has, in some cases become fact. Flying to the Moon, Dick Tracy's wrist police radio, "Smart" bombs, Hydroponics (can you think of any others? There are much more.)

You mention Star Wars. It was Science fiction, but it was more than that. It was a mixture of different world myths, blended together to tell a story, a story that "spoke" to people and always will. You should read what Joseph Campbell, who was extremely useful to its producer, George Lucas, had to say about the movie. He called it a classical mythological tale.

Yes, I like Science fiction - even if some of it is pseudo-metaphysical mumbo jumbo. :)

[k.o.o.l.b.o.n.z.e]

wow..the size of those things havent decreased in years. i would have gotten one but the "young people carrying walkietalkies" thing seems to have died out already..lol. back on topic my love for sci fics comes second only to comedies. Isaac asimov is one my favorite authors even though his plots generally center around political tactics.

[Truthseeker]

I don't recall using mumbo jumbo either!

I just love sci-fi movies but have not gotten into reading any books yet. Sci_fi can be inspiring to egineers who seem to be constantly borrowing ideas from the sci-fi writers.

I do try to read articles about astrophysics or cosmology as much as possible. I am in constant wonder about the universe and its constituent matter. Where did it come from? NOT GOD. Are there Multiple Universes or Multiverses? Hyperspace, blackholes,time travel, time dilation worm holes etc, all this sort of boring stuff.

Stargate SG1, BattleStar Galatica and Stargate Atlantis are now my favorite programs and of course the Star Trek series and Spinoff.
The Outer limits is an interesting sci-fi genre.