"newsreader" <newsreader@charterinternet.net> wrote in message
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"Bill" <sdrodrian fan@comcast.net> wrote in message
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One hour spent watching or reading sci-fi is one hour
lost reading (or doing!) real science.  Say no to sci-fi.

One has to wonder how much "real science" of today was inspired by reading
the sci-fi of yesterday...   What will today's sci-fi inspire tomorrow?

IMHO, the mind needs more than just hard facts to work at its optimum
potential. =)

None.

In fact you have it backwards. All sci-fi has evolved from the latest know
theories. Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, etc. were all possibilities
of the latest greatest physocs theory. I was a big fan of sci-fi at one
time. But pc has taken it over so that it has become soft, cuddly and oh
sooo puke-able(sp?). Today's sci-fi is nothing more than soap-oper in space.
P-freakin'-period-U.!)

Besides that, no self-respecting scientist would spend time wondering if the
imaginings of an artsy type are true. However, he does read the latest
articles, keep in touch and collaborate with the other professionals, and
tries to extend the science as far as his known mathematics (knots were a
hot topic for a long time until strings took over) - if he's a theorist, or
equipment - if he's an experimentalist - will allow him to go.

Science -> Engineering -> Technology -> everything else.

"All of nature is physics; everything else is stamp collecting." -Ernst
Rutherford
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