Science Fiction becomes Science Fact

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Re: Science Fiction becomes Science Fact

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subgenius wrote:
canpakes wrote:Only if he's done.

then *damning

Not necessarily.
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This sort of technology will help to call the Mopologists' bluff. Watch them weasel away from it. :biggrin:
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Re: Science Fiction becomes Science Fact

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Here are two past predictions about the remote chance that man would ever get to the moon.

Science fiction writer Jules Verne thought so in his 1865 book From the Earth to the Moon. Taking the opposite position, LDS seer and revelator Joseph Fielding Smith said in 1961 that, "man would never get into space" let alone the moon.

One month earlier in that same year 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in a space orbit of the Earth.
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canpakes wrote:Not necessarily.

Agreed, tell Doc.
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subgenius wrote:
canpakes wrote:Not necessarily.

Agreed, tell Doc.

Wrong one.
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Re: Science Fiction becomes Science Fact

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moksha wrote:Here are two past predictions about the remote chance that man would ever get to the moon.

Science fiction writer Jules Verne thought so ....

you confuse "dreaming about" with "prediction".
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