“Fantasy is the impossible made probable – Science fiction is the improbable made possible. – Rod Serling, creator of ‘The Twilight Zone’.
2001 - A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
The more you look into the impossible the easier it seems that the impossible is the true reality.
Weed out the cranks and fanatics and what you have left are both sides of an argument.
Each side sounding plausible.
But then if you look at the cranks and their warped idea of reality, who is to say that they have not, in fact, touched on the truth.
Centuries ago we had the alchemists and the philosophers who pushed at the boundaries of reality and more often than not they were wrong, but in many ways they are the basis of scientific thought today!
But then you look at the “knowledge” of ancient peoples like the Sumerians and you find that their dreams of an eleventh planet have only just been found to be true reality.
In every time there are the dreamers, those who see things as they might be, or are they the only one to things as they really are.
The Crown Prince of Science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke, summed up his idea of reality with three “laws” of prediction: Science Fiction or Science Fact?
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Law three was later amended by Niven’s Converse Law which says: “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology”.
Niven’s Rules were named after science fiction author Larry Niven, who has periodically published them as “how the Universe works” as far as he can tell!
Most recently rewritten on January 29, 2002, Niven’s Rules…
* Never fire a laser at a mirror.
* It is easier to destroy than to create.
* Any damn fool can predict the past.
* Ethics change with technology.
* Anarchy is the least stable of political structures.
* There is a time and a place for tact.
* The ways of being human are bounded but infinite.
* The only universal message in science fiction: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently.
* There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.
* No technique works if it isn’t used.
Just when you thought it was all over…
“This is space. It’s sometimes called the final frontier. “Except that of course you can’t have a *final* frontier, because there’d be nothing for it to be a frontier ‘to’, but as frontiers go, it’s pretty penultimate”. – Terry Pratchett.
“If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?” – Anon.
“For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects”. – Gene Roddenberry, creator of ‘Star Trek’.
“There’s no real objection to escapism, in the right places. We all want to escape occasionally.
“But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality.
” It’s a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future.
” In fact I can’t think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality”. – Arthur C Clarke.
“A planet doesn’t explode of itself,” said dryly The Martian Astronomer, gazing off into the air: “That they were able to do it is proof that highly intelligent beings must have been living there”. – John Hall Wheelcock,’Earth’ .
“The mind is a strange and wonderful thing.
I’m not sure it’ll ever be able to figure itself out.Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself”. – Dr Dan Kaufmann, ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (1956) .
“Where should we be if nobody tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and stars, to know what causes trees to bud and what changes darkness into light? But if you talk like that people call you crazy”. – Henry Frankenstein, ‘Frankenstein’ (1932) .
“The universe is composed of infinite planes of the random”. – John Wyndham’s ‘Random Quest’.
“No matter where you go, there you are. Always the same old you. Let me suggest that you take a vacation from yourself.
“I know it sounds wild, but it’s the latest thing in travel. We call it an ‘Ego Trip’”. – Quaid and McClane, ‘Total Recall’.
“Either I’m concussed, or I’m watching Patrick Moore fist fighting with an extra-terrestrial”. – RAF pilot, in ‘Independence Day: UK’ by Dirk Maggs.
“Sunlight poses a problem to our ‘ethnic group’”. – Gremlin, in ‘Gremlins II’.
I bet they got benefits and a council house too! “The issue isn’t whether you’re paranoid, it’s whether you’re paranoid enough”. – Strange Days ‘Step up to red alert’.
“Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb”. – Red Dwarf.
“Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C’mon, it’s stupid”. – Ray Bradbury.
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