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What is Science Fiction?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke
Science fiction is a genre which embodies our imagination of what the future might be like for the human species in technological developments or scenarios involving events off of planet Earth. Much of science fiction plays on the possibilities of the physics and science at the time, giving a faint peek into what might be in store for us.
Many technologies have been developed simply because the idea for them came up in science fiction. From Captain Kirk's communicator (cell phones) to lasers, the effects of sci-fi can be felt throughout global society, The word robot was even created by Isaac Asmiov for one of his fictional works!
Science Fiction provides us with a way to question the effects things may have on humanity and provide a window into the possibilities brought about by modern theories, which may currently seem surreal, but could one day become a reality.
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Inventive Japanese Snow Monkeys (Video)
Inventive Japanese Snow Monkeys (Video)
(The Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata), also known as the Snow Monkey, is a terrestrial Old World monkey species native to Japan. It is the most northern-living as well as the most polar-living non-human primate.)
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Sri Lankan Green Pitviper (Image)
(New Wikileaks release on the 'bugged planet' - the $5-billion mass surveillance industry selling telecoms and internet monitoring technology.)
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:47 pm in Miscellaneous.
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(New bill requires ISPs to retain all your online activities, IPs, name, address and credit card into. Invasion of privacy for everybody to catch the 1% of criminality..)
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 11:19 am in Living World.
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(A page with a video for each of the elements on the periodic table.)
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:36 pm in Physics.
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(Richard Dawkens and Sir David Attenborough are hailing a victory, as the United Kingdom puts laws in place to forbid schools teaching '"creation science".)
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 4:18 pm in Humanity.
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(The decision to add DNS blocking to SOPA has been delayed and condemned by the White House... For now.)
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 10:52 am in Technology.
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(Known as the discoverer of the Radioactive elements Polonium and Radium,and as the first person to win Two Nobel Prizes)
Posted on January 15, 2012 at 1:21 am in Technology.
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(Nearly 6,000 Irrawaddy dolphins, which are related to orcas or killer whales, were found living in freshwater regions of Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest and the adjacent waters of the Bay of Bengal, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Societ)
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 10:34 pm in Biology & Medicine.
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(Researchers have released the biggest images yet detailing dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up 85% of the Universe's mass.)
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm in Astronomy.
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(A crippled Russian spacecraft is likely to crash to Earth sometime on Sunday at an unspecified location.)
Posted on January 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm in Astronomy.
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(If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, especially online, you will have probably heard something about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by now. If not, then pull your chair up, because this is a problem, and not just for Americans.)
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 6:56 pm in Technology.
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(For now, Facebook will continue to rule social media, but Google will continue to rule search.)
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 11:18 am in Technology.
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(A team of University of Illinois engineers has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in less time than it takes to blink.)
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 9:02 am in Technology.
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