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Uncle Clover wrote:


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No psychic phenomenon has ever been scientifically
verified on even the remotest
level - no remote viewing, no telepathy, no
telekinesis - NONE of it.

Neither had been faster than light travel, teleportation,
artificial
intelligence or extraterrestrial life.

If you wanted to be limited to a "verified phenomena", you
can write
about builiding a Moon base or expedition to Mars - and
thats all.

So why
does such crap keep showing up in "science" fiction?

Because people like to read it?

It's like the brainwashed
religious freaks can't even escape their own past when
they've left their
religion behind - they've still got to keep clinging to
"something" or another
about their former magical thinking worldview or they'll
just simply -explode-.
Or some such. I can see it in stories which fall under
"sci-fi/fantasy", but
not just plain "science fiction".

What science fiction stories (sans the "fantasy"
qualifier) have you read that
truly seem to deserve the label? Even stories which
involve futuristic
technology


Much of A.C. Clarke (viz. the space elevator book.) Most of
the old Hal Clement stuff (viz. Mission of Gravity etc.)
Thas'all I can think of at the moment...
....tonyC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from
magic.


used to -trick- someone into thinking something "magical"
was
happening would be better than those which treat magic
alone as though it were
real.

Just curious...
--
L8r,
Uncle Clover
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