| According to Wikipedia, science-fiction is a broad | | | | Huge scary monsters destroying everything and |
| genre of fiction that often involves speculations based | | | | terrifying everyone are also science-fiction elements. |
| on current or future science or technology. There are | | | | The most popular ones are King Kong and GodZilla. In |
| many movies featuring events, gadgets, creatures and | | | | a decade or two, monsters 16 feet tall and weighting 6 |
| people that are very unlikely to encounter, meet or | | | | to 12 tones may be walking amongst us. I’m talking |
| happen in real life. But as time passes by and science | | | | about Manfred’s brothers and sisters. Yes, |
| and technology keep on advancing and improving, | | | | mammoth. Scientists have found wolly mapped with |
| many elements which are considered belonging to | | | | mammoth DNA which they intend to use to clone |
| science-fiction movie are now coming to life. | | | | mammoths; like in Jurassic Park. Mammoth went |
| The most popular science-fiction elements are | | | | extinct because of food scarcity and rise in |
| extraterrestrials. In this category we have E.T. The | | | | temperature. With Global warming and the increase of |
| Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounter and Independence | | | | food price, I wonder how and where they will live. |
| Day. It’s still unclear if there is life on other planets | | | | Good thing that they were herbivore. |
| despite many claims of UFO sightings, alien encounters, | | | | The technology in science-fiction movies always |
| abductions and let’s not forget The Roswell | | | | makes us dream and wonder if it will one day come to |
| Incident. NASA detected what seems like methane on | | | | life. The dreamiest are flying cars like in The Jetsons |
| Mars’ atmosphere which means possible life on the | | | | and The Fifth Element. I’m going to be honest and |
| planet. – I hope that they look like us and not small, | | | | say that it is one invention I though won’t be coming |
| green with big headed people, coz that would bring | | | | around any time soon, but turns out that I was wrong |
| back nightmares which will turn out to be real this time. | | | | thanks to Parajet Skycar. It drives like a car and flies |
| What I fear most if there is life on Mars that for some | | | | like a plane. Don’t get carried away yet. The flying |
| stupid earthling reason we’ll decide to attack them | | | | car hasn’t been tested yet but there are plans of it |
| and turn this into Earth Attack. I hope that the Mars | | | | flying from London to Timbuktu by the end of January. |
| mission won’t turn into Capricorn One. | | | | Last but not least, we have robots and artificial |
| One of the most beautiful magical science-fiction | | | | intelligence. There are many movies such as I, Robot |
| elements is space traveling. There is a 1902 black and | | | | and Terminator which feature metals held together |
| white silent French movie titled Le Voyage Dans La | | | | with bolts and nuts looking and behaving like human |
| Lune (A trip To The Moon). Boy, that movie must have | | | | beings. We also happen to have some in real life like |
| seemed so silly and unbelievable back then – The | | | | the robot suit which can assist people by lifting heavy |
| trip part, not all the freaky stuff that happened up there | | | | loads and assist people with disabilities climb stairs and |
| - until July 20th 1969 when man first walked on the | | | | the kitchen assistant robot which can take care of |
| moon. Now, not anyone can go to space unless | | | | house chores and robotics pets (mostly dogs). |
| you’re an astronaut –Duh! - a star, wealthy or a | | | | So far, there isn’t any time travel machine – that |
| VIP. There some companies such as Virgin Galactic, | | | | I have heard of – like in Back To The Future and |
| one of Richard Branson s’ Virgin Group | | | | that’s probably for the best because whichever |
| corporations, which will be offering spaceflight to | | | | individual or country manages to create one will most |
| passengers. But it doesn’t come cheap, the first | | | | probably use it to change history in their advantage or |
| 500 flights are between $200,000 and $100,000 – | | | | maybe even make it worse. |
| Seems like only some of the people mentioned above | | | | A few days ago, a US Airways plane which was bird |
| will be able to afford them - and the next ones, | | | | stroked, an engine caught fire and crash-landed into |
| $20,000 – Start saving. | | | | the Hudson River. All the passengers and crew |
| Another science-fiction element is disaster. The type | | | | survived. Everyone believes that it is thanks to the pilot |
| where the earth or mankind is about to disappear – | | | | and hero Robert Bea who handled the situation |
| I wonder which animal would miss us the most – | | | | amazingly. Now if this was in a movie, it would have |
| and someone has to set up to save humanity; or | | | | been seen as a great plot, exaggerated and not likely |
| some kind of disease and survival of the fittest comes | | | | to happen. Now that it has, if the crash appears in a |
| back in style. We have Armageddon, I Am Legend | | | | movie, people will say “Great just like the landing on |
| and The Day After Tomorrow. The real life natural | | | | the Hudson River.” But the movie won’t leave |
| event which easily comes to mind is global warming. | | | | such a big mark in viewers mind because it has |
| Temperatures are rising, ice in the artics is melting, | | | | already happened. |
| pollution is on the increase and animals are going | | | | I wonder if gathering the courage to throw shoes at a |
| instinct. If Mars is unoccupied and that it is possible that | | | | world leader should be consider as a science-fiction |
| earthling can live on it, I hope that we will take better | | | | event come true. |
| care of it. | | | | |