40 Random Bits of Sci-Fi Trivia and Tropes to Set Your Brain Phaser to Stunned
We’ve already eclipsed the cigarette technology envisioned by ‘The Fifth Element’

Why would NASA vote on the “most plausible” sci-fi film? What good could possible come from that?
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I just don't think beasts would listen to a hairless freak like this guy

Puzzled?! I was downright perplexed!

Scotty doesn't know

Speculative Science

Source: Wired
Social Commentary

Rebellion

Source: Cloud Kitten Chronicles/YouTube
Cosmic Gods

Source: Collider
They predicted LED headlights

SimCity

Sources: The New York Times (via archive.org), “The Seventh Sally” by Stanislaw Lem (via University of San Diego)
Big deal, I watch movies when I should be working all the time

We just saved you a few hours

Keep up the good work, dweebs

Corbin Dallas would have blown O's with the best of them

Real life is always cooler

Uh oh, the government has invented guns that can disperse crowds, we're in for it now.

Can't stop imagining the Terminator coming to life and ripping off we comics.

I do not wish to be perceived.

Professor X should've patented that thing

The hologram Bible will outlive the human race. As God intended.

You and me both, brother

Gattaca

Perhaps quantum computing will unlock the count-sideways

Mastication is a sin

Captain Video walked so that Dr. Who could do whatever he does

Sorry, San Diego

Alien

Liquid Nitrogen

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Roger Corman

Source: Wikipedia
Bushwick witches were right!

The juiciest bug I've ever seen.

Source: Movie scene on YouTube
Steve Urkel

No thanks. That's enough.

Yeah, so does Howard Stern

The origin of the dino nugget

Who can blame him?

Hot new diet trend: sci-fi conspiracies

It's the only logical explanation

This holographic meeting could have been a holographic email

Sci-Fi and the Bible have a lot in common

The Chronic-- WHAT?! --cles of Riddick
