Science or the Fiction???
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🔰🅰Gi®ls🔫🔰 wrote:
Ahhh Dr Who, time travel, worm holes, Daleks, and sonic screwdrivers. Who wouldn't jump at the chance to explore the Universe.YOU wrote:
Huge fan of Dr.WhoThis thread is full of win, i am a huge sci-fi geek.....
But back to the Science or the Fiction. I wonder whether K9 was inspiration for any scientists? I can seeing parts of him in the bomb disposal robots that we have today.
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Robots
I Robot, we all know the movie with Will Smith. It looked great on the big screen with all those CGI effects. But when was that book originally written? 1950! Amazing foresight by Isaac Asimov. Robotics was actually a term he coined in 1941.
I mean Robots are getting to be everywhere these days. My mother even brought us an iRoomba (robotic vacuum cleaner) for Christmas. Shame the baby is scared of it.
But where did the concept of Robots begin. If you go back far enough I suppose they are the modern equivalent of the golem, a mythical man created from clay which would obey commands that were written down and placed in it's mouth. More recently than that Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400's designed an automated man. Later Nikola Tesla created remote control vehicles back in 1890.
So the Robots we see and hear about today actually have a genealogy going back hundreds of years.
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Amazing thread Hyena, I'm going to have to check some of these books out.
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Genetics/DNA
To be able to differentiate between people by different traits at a genetic level. It was only recently that man has decoded our DNA. Only recently that we have had the ability to identify someone based on a hair, a flake of skin, the spit on a cigarette butt.
Then how was it my favorite author was able to conceive of a weapon that could target specific characteristics of a race at a cellular for his novel the Sixth Column in 1941.
Who hasn't seen Gattaca, we all find that quite plausible now after watching CSI for the last decade. However Gattaca is actually 15 years old.
These days cold cases 20+ years old are being reopened, evidence that had been put in storage pulled out and murderers convicted. Also convicted murderers are being released as DNA evidence proves they are innocent.
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Damn you Hyena, I actually had plans for summer. Now I just have a long list of classic science fiction
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Hyena wrote:
One of my favorite Sci-Fi books is from Heinlein too. Starship Troopers.Mobile Phones
This one I first read in a book by my favourite author Robert A Heinlein. I will need to pull the book out again to get you the title but it was written in the 50's.
The book starts off with a boy riding his horse in the middle of the desert when the phone rings. So he answers it.
The concept of having a phone so small it could fit in his pocket while he rides his horse I amazing considering when I was young my father had one of the first mobile phones in the eighties. That phone came with a briefcase which contained the battery.
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I'm not a sci fi nerd. I dont know names and authors and dates ... n shit. I think I prefer true stories vs true possibilities. Plus aliens and monsters scare me. HOWEVER, now it's appealing to me to want to go back and see where we were influenced.
Again, not a sci fi nerd, but this has been the most interesting thread I've read in a long time. (I mean, maybe due to the fact that I actually had time to read it, but I'm usually pretty good at skimming over long posts I'm not too interested in).Freaking win hyena. Dats muh boi!!!
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Sgt Mayday wrote:
Ahhhh such a good book, shame about the movies. 😞 although the shower scenes. 😻.Hyena wrote:
One of my favorite Sci-Fi books is from Heinlein too. Starship Troopers.Mobile Phones
This one I first read in a book by my favourite author Robert A Heinlein. I will need to pull the book out again to get you the title but it was written in the 50's.
The book starts off with a boy riding his horse in the middle of the desert when the phone rings. So he answers it.
The concept of having a phone so small it could fit in his pocket while he rides his horse I amazing considering when I was young my father had one of the first mobile phones in the eighties. That phone came with a briefcase which contained the battery.
But once again visionary coming up with video calls and letters.
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Hyena wrote:
Didn't watch the movie. And from what I've heard about it, I dont want to.Sgt Mayday wrote:
Ahhhh such a good book, shame about the movies. 😞 although the shower scenes. 😻.Hyena wrote:
One of my favorite Sci-Fi books is from Heinlein too. Starship Troopers.✂
But once again visionary coming up with video calls and letters.
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Immortality
Ahhh the holy grail, the tree of life. The Phantom is the ghost who walk, the man who can not die due to his son's inheriting the role. Batman's nemesis Lazarus bathed in a chemical bath which gave him immortality. But what if it became available? How would society cope?
These are explored by Peter F Hamilton in Misspent Youth. How would life change if at eighty you had the body and hormones of an 18 year old? Is it wrong to have sex with another 18 year old when you have 80 years behind you?
Subsequent novels further explore the socio-economic impact. Suddenly the rich can live forever. The poor still die. The wealth is accumulated with less and less people. Imagine taking a job with a company because one of the benefits is rejuvenation. What happens with the population of the Earth when no one dies? Is this the impetus for us to leave our home planet?
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Many think how wonderful to be able to relive our youth with the wisdom of our age. But be warned it is a doubled edged sword that has consequences you may not have considered.
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Can I kind of piggy back off of this thread a bit? It's same scenario but a story that a friend of mine and me were thinking. When we were younger we LOVED playing video games, obviously they weren't as good as now for some, but space flying games, FPS anyhow he was very intelligent, got excellent grades, I ended up joining the Navy cause I've always liked the idea of going out to sea, he joined the air force. Well he also flies predator drones now, when I talk to him he LOVES it. He said it reminds him in a way of playing video games like when we were kids. We both got to thinking, well what if they created (almost like robocop) but a remote controlled version, and really all of these FPS are just practice for the next generation to control robotic wars against other countries. Obviously this isn't a completely original thought process in a sense, but his real world experience plus our playing space flying games, and love for FPS got our minds going.
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I'd have thought this was a certainty, at some point in the future.
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Wasn't there some sort of ct/MRI machine on star trek
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I too am a scifi fan...I sure hope the future is full of hot babes in spandex thongs!
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🔰🅰Gi®ls🔫🔰 wrote:
YOU wrote:
Huge fan of Dr.WhoThis thread is full of win, i am a huge sci-fi geek.....
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CCTV
We all know it's there, we all know we are being watched and recorded in shops, at banks, airports even on the streets. Cops in England even have CCTV on their heads these days. But where did this come from....
1984, a book by George Orwell first published in 1949 predicted a complacent society run by a religious dictatorship. Every movement of the population is tracked. Often people complaining of breaches of civil liberties quote this book as a warning. But is the warning too late???
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Internet in Ender's Game. I wonder when they'll figure out how to do that.
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