40 Random Bits of Sci-Fi Trivia and Tropes to Set Your Brain Phaser to Stunned
We’ve already eclipsed the cigarette technology envisioned by ‘The Fifth Element’
Why would NASA vote on the “most plausible” sci-fi film? What good could possible come from that?
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I just don't think beasts would listen to a hairless freak like this guy
Puzzled?! I was downright perplexed!
Scotty doesn't know
Speculative Science
Source: Wired
Social Commentary
Rebellion
Source: Cloud Kitten Chronicles/YouTube
Cosmic Gods
Source: Collider
They predicted LED headlights
SimCity
Sources: The New York Times (via archive.org), “The Seventh Sally” by Stanislaw Lem (via University of San Diego)
Big deal, I watch movies when I should be working all the time
We just saved you a few hours
Keep up the good work, dweebs
Corbin Dallas would have blown O's with the best of them
Real life is always cooler
Uh oh, the government has invented guns that can disperse crowds, we're in for it now.
Can't stop imagining the Terminator coming to life and ripping off we comics.
I do not wish to be perceived.
Professor X should've patented that thing
The hologram Bible will outlive the human race. As God intended.
You and me both, brother
Gattaca
Perhaps quantum computing will unlock the count-sideways
Mastication is a sin
Captain Video walked so that Dr. Who could do whatever he does
Sorry, San Diego
Alien
Liquid Nitrogen
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Roger Corman
Source: Wikipedia
Bushwick witches were right!
The juiciest bug I've ever seen.
Source: Movie scene on YouTube