When Science-fiction Becomes Reality

According to Wikipedia, science-fiction is a broadHuge scary monsters destroying everything and
genre of fiction that often involves speculations basedterrifying everyone are also science-fiction elements.
on current or future science or technology. There areThe most popular ones are King Kong and GodZilla. In
many movies featuring events, gadgets, creatures anda decade or two, monsters 16 feet tall and weighting 6
people that are very unlikely to encounter, meet orto 12 tones may be walking amongst us. I’m talking
happen in real life. But as time passes by and scienceabout 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 tomammoth 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 areextinct because of food scarcity and rise in
extraterrestrials. In this category we have E.T. Thetemperature. With Global warming and the increase of
Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounter and Independencefood price, I wonder how and where they will live.
Day. It’s still unclear if there is life on other planetsGood 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 Roswellmakes us dream and wonder if it will one day come to
Incident. NASA detected what seems like methane onlife. The dreamiest are flying cars like in The Jetsons
Mars’ atmosphere which means possible life on theand 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 bringaround 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 somelike a plane. Don’t get carried away yet. The flying
stupid earthling reason we’ll decide to attack themcar hasn’t been tested yet but there are plans of it
and turn this into Earth Attack. I hope that the Marsflying 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-fictionintelligence. There are many movies such as I, Robot
elements is space traveling. There is a 1902 black andand Terminator which feature metals held together
white silent French movie titled Le Voyage Dans Lawith bolts and nuts looking and behaving like human
Lune (A trip To The Moon). Boy, that movie must havebeings. We also happen to have some in real life like
seemed so silly and unbelievable back then – Thethe robot suit which can assist people by lifting heavy
trip part, not all the freaky stuff that happened up thereloads and assist people with disabilities climb stairs and
- until July 20th 1969 when man first walked on thethe kitchen assistant robot which can take care of
moon. Now, not anyone can go to space unlesshouse chores and robotics pets (mostly dogs).
you’re an astronaut –Duh! - a star, wealthy or aSo 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 Groupthat’s probably for the best because whichever
corporations, which will be offering spaceflight toindividual or country manages to create one will most
passengers. But it doesn’t come cheap, the firstprobably 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 aboveA 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 typesurvived. 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; orbeen seen as a great plot, exaggerated and not likely
some kind of disease and survival of the fittest comesto happen. Now that it has, if the crash appears in a
back in style. We have Armageddon, I Am Legendmovie, people will say “Great just like the landing on
and The Day After Tomorrow. The real life naturalthe 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 goingI wonder if gathering the courage to throw shoes at a
instinct. If Mars is unoccupied and that it is possible thatworld leader should be consider as a science-fiction
earthling can live on it, I hope that we will take betterevent come true.
care of it.