Is science fiction and science edging closer together?
Since its beginning it has always seemed that science fiction led the way in technological thought and science itself has produced real results from those fantasies. No more is this evident than in how we travel, modern comforts like electricity and how we communicate. What was science fiction decades ago or even a century ago is now mundane reality and there’s no reason think that this won’t be the case with each passing frontier we discover and cross over. When looking at space I’m sure that the ancients never dreamed that we could fly among the stars, walk on the moon or send probes to Mars and the outer planets for study. But we do these things today. It is very possible that within 50 years humans will do even more – perhaps exploring the solar system and setting up space stations at various points in the solar system. What will we do a century from now? Well, a century ago people thought it inconceivable that people might fly, yet airplne travel is a reality today. Even in the ea
