About Looking Backward From Tomorrow: 21st Century SF
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Are you passionate about the future & Sci Fi's place in it? Do you enjoy talking about the impact of new discoveries in science & their effect on SF? Do you like to argue & defend your position? If you find these questions interesting, this is the place for you. Come & join in.
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Welcome to 21st Century SF
This group is being created as a subgroup of the Science Fiction Group. Everyone is welcome to join & post but this is not a group for the timid. Expect to debate & defend your position, pa...
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posted by Niki50
But To Be Alive Was Very Heaven (redone)
"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!" William Wordsworth wrote those words in 1805 to describe Europe at the time of the French Revolution.
"Bliss. Dawn. Alive...
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posted by LenRobertson
A New Day
Eight days ago, VSS Enterprise rolled out. Made entirely of carbon fiber, it is the first space ship designed to carry passengers on regularly scheduled flights. Today, the Dreamliner, the first ju...
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posted by LenRobertson
We Need To Look Backward From The Future
What doesn't seem to be happening today is the willingness of people to project themselves into the future and then look backward to all the things they would like to see. It's the only way one can...
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posted by LenRobertson
Yes, We Are Barbarians
I think Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan might be onto something. It's quite possible that those opposed to the Hadron Collider may be correct in a way. All ...
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posted by LenRobertson
A Jolt To The System
Three things in the 20th Century gave technology enormous jolts and all of them were times of great fear and stress: WW1, WW2 and the Cold War. Decades of progress were achieved in mere years and c...
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posted by LenRobertson
So Gliese 581 d has organic life, then what?
As I have said many times, when I tell microbiologists who haven't heard of Gliese 581 d previously about the probability that it has organic life, they ask one question: Does it have liquid water?...
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posted by LenRobertson
Waterworld 2151 on second site
Past panels of Waterworld 2151, the graphic novel adventures of Tina a 13 year old girl on Gliese 581 d (Waterworld) 20.3 light years away in the year 2151, can be seen now on site: www.lrobertsonb...
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posted by LenRobertson
Mystery And Adventure Inspire The Ambitious
Mystery and adventure inspire the ambitious. The 21st Century will have far more than its share of both. Those who are fearful of the new and the challenging will retreat into the myths of the past...
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posted by LenRobertson
The Avalanche Gains Momentum
Pessimism entrenched: that seems to be the attitude of far too many people. Black helicopters or Black water. The dollar in the toilet. The government lurches from disaster to catastrophe. Nothing ...
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posted by LenRobertson
