Science Fiction
What do you think the world will be like in twenty years? What do you think space will be like in twenty years? Everyone answers differently, naturally, but some people don’t exactly have short answers—their answers are long enough to write books about them!
Science fiction has been around for ages, before much about space and scientific studies was well known. Think of life on planets, of time-traveling, or of alternating DNA. What we do know about them isn’t much, and some people would contest even the most proven of facts.
One of the most common subjects of science fiction is cloning. Want a twin or two? Well, for an arm and a leg...
Replicating DNA strands is nearly impossible in our day and age, the few projects that have gone through usually cost as much as the national debt—and so far, no humans have ever been tested. Yet in story after story, book after book, we read how everyone was secretly cloned at birth and only finds out about it a decade or two later: that way there’s room for anguish. Ah, the wonders of science fiction!
Time-traveling is also popular. Electricity being formed from thousands upon thousands of gallons of rushing water will be used to burst open the secret gateway between generations so that we can watch our parents grow up. Maybe we’d like to use excruciating heat from fire to burn through the time like evaporating water so we can see if we pass that math test that’s coming up.
Science fiction is defined as a mixture of science and fantasy. We’ve got the science so how about some good ole fantasy! What if, while using our x-ray vision, we could float through the streets—which are perfectly organized and uncommonly clean—on a whim? But it wouldn’t be called floating, it would actually be tiny molecules clinging to us (because our skin has a special chemical, which was injected into us at birth, that acts as their source of energy) and pushing us along wherever we want because they can scan our brain?
That would be one dandy of a world to live in; science would dominate every aspect of our lives. Would that be a bad thing? Would we even notice because it had been introduced one particle at a time? Until our governments decide to focus solely on sending countries into space or criminals into alternate realms, we probably will never get a chance to experience any of these worlds. But that certainly doesn’t stop us from reading about them!