(02-25-2009, 11:55 PM)Lavazza Wrote: Science fiction has paved the way for science fact for a while now. The satellite was thought up by Arthur C Clark, as just one example.
Yeah, I think I remember something like that also. When the atom bomb was being built. Spiderman or Batman or one of them like that were fictionally experimenting on a bad guy cracking an atom in order to make the bomb.
Some intelligence agency wrote to him and said, 'knock it off' and they had to withhold that issue.
Now, the 4400, which I will be very interested in until I have finished watching the episodes. It is about people being kidnapped from earth at different times and coming back in a ball of light, with special abilities such as telekinesis. Eventually, the authorities realise that the chemical in their system allowing them to do this is a drug called promicin and they make up an 'Inhibitor' to stop these abilites.
Eventually promicin itself gets mass produced, but the trick is that 50% of the people that take the shot die, and the other 50% gain a 'unique' ability. Such as one was able to clean the polution in a stream. Or heal.
The plot goes in the direction that the future are the people that took the 4400 and changed them and did it to prevent a catastrophe, in which the rich profitted and the rest of humanity basically died out. Therefore, the 4400's unique abilities are there to help people.
There are also a group of negatives who went back and work as the most rich people. Ten of them, in order to keep the future how it was.
Now. I don't know how much resembles the truth. But the 50% thing sort of hints at the 'harvest' senario. Where some of humanity will repeat third density so will not be able to be on the earth when it manifests 'true colour green'. I just find the series fascinating.
However, it is also possible that such series have the effect of increasing peoples wonder and therefore their seeking? And doesn't necessarily relate directly to the truth.