On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 13:48:21 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

Really good scifi was sidelined by fantasy a couple decades ago.
Hollywood's belief is that the average person is incapable of even
listening to scientifically-plausible ideas. For every person who is
fascinated by (for example) the Greene books on quantum universes,
there are 100,000 who want "Star Wars."


We see that a lot in Hollywood movies that have nothing to do with SF.
But the problem is worse with SF when the movie makers don't know
science (and probably don't read).

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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

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