How would you react if sci fi was handed out to college students like candy?

[JakeWIlls92]

By the government or a rich enthusiastic person!

I remember not caring too much about space opera fiction like Star Trek or Star Wars before getting the chance to experience Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, and James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes during the Summer before my first year of college.

Leviathan Wakes made me think about inequality.



Mass Effect, particularly the first one gave me a huge sense of wonder and inspired an interest in astronomy.





Before experiencing For All Mankind on Apple TV I didn't care too much about the history of spaceflight but watching the show inspired me to look into it. I didn't know about the N1 rocket. I didn't know about Apollo 1.



Apple is already on season 5 of For All Mankind and there is a spinoff titled Star City.



The past few FAM seasons made me want to check out Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.

How would you react if the US government started handing out free sci fi games, sci fi novels, and free Apple TV subscriptions like candy to college students to get people thinking or dreaming of the future again?

I think it would be hilarious.

Apparently there is a new space race.

Shenzhou-23 crew arrives at Tiangong as China maps path to 2030 lunar landing

 

[Zincwarrior]

Lots of historical fiction were actually sci fi at the time.

 

[1srelluc]

Make them watch Buck Rogers, they will be fine.

 

[Crepitus]

By the government or a rich enthusiastic person!

I remember not caring too much about space opera fiction like Star Trek or Star Wars before getting the chance to experience Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, and James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes during the Summer before my first year of college.

Leviathan Wakes made me think about inequality.



Mass Effect, particularly the first one gave me a huge sense of wonder and inspired an interest in astronomy.





Before experiencing For All Mankind on Apple TV I didn't care too much about the history of spaceflight but watching the show inspired me to look into it. I didn't know about the N1 rocket. I didn't know about Apollo 1.



Apple is already on season 5 of For All Mankind and there is a spinoff titled Star City.



The past few FAM seasons made me want to check out Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.

How would you react if the US government started handing out free sci fi games, sci fi novels, and free Apple TV subscriptions like candy to college students to get people thinking or dreaming of the future again?

I think it would be hilarious.

Apparently there is a new space race.

Shenzhou-23 crew arrives at Tiangong as China maps path to 2030 lunar landing

I don't really have a problem with that as long as the agenda is clearly to get people thinking about the future. If they start handing out "starship troopers" and telling folks it's a good idea to disenfranchise most voters that's gonna be a different story though.

 

[Stryder50]

I don't really have a problem with that as long as the agenda is clearly to get people thinking about the future. If they start handing out "starship troopers" and telling folks it's a good idea to disenfranchise most voters that's gonna be a different story though.

Many topics and themes in sci-fi are meant to get readers thinking on those subjects, the pros and cons.
Heinlein is an excellent author with works of that sort, including his novel "Starship Troopers", not at all like the movie that bastardized the book.
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
&
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
Are also very thought ~ discussion provoking.

 

[Stryder50]

By the government or a rich enthusiastic person!

I remember not caring too much about space opera fiction like Star Trek or Star Wars before getting the chance to experience Mass Effect 1, Mass Effect 2, and James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes during the Summer before my first year of college.

Leviathan Wakes made me think about inequality.



Mass Effect, particularly the first one gave me a huge sense of wonder and inspired an interest in astronomy.





Before experiencing For All Mankind on Apple TV I didn't care too much about the history of spaceflight but watching the show inspired me to look into it. I didn't know about the N1 rocket. I didn't know about Apollo 1.



Apple is already on season 5 of For All Mankind and there is a spinoff titled Star City.



The past few FAM seasons made me want to check out Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy.

How would you react if the US government started handing out free sci fi games, sci fi novels, and free Apple TV subscriptions like candy to college students to get people thinking or dreaming of the future again?

I think it would be hilarious.

Apparently there is a new space race.

Shenzhou-23 crew arrives at Tiangong as China maps path to 2030 lunar landing

Much of that is already happening.

A couple years back I got a Great Courses DVD set by a professor with several lectures about sci-fi.
We even swapped a couple emails while I presented him with the case for why physical time travel most likely is impossible. A couple of paradox~conundrums involved.
Sci-fi is one of many genres of literature so it is presented in many classrooms from junior high through college.

 

[Winston]

I don't really have a problem with that as long as the agenda is clearly to get people thinking about the future. If they start handing out "starship troopers" and telling folks it's a good idea to disenfranchise most voters that's gonna be a different story though.

Heinlein. Damn great book. So, I will offer a compromise. You don't have to be a veteran to earn the right to vote, but we must bring back the draft, with little or no exceptions.

 

[Winston]

Much of that is already happening.

A couple years back I got a Great Courses DVD set by a professor with several lectures about sci-fi.
We even swapped a couple emails while I presented him with the case for why physical time travel most likely is impossible. A couple of paradox~conundrums involved.
Sci-fi is one of many genres of literature so it is presented in many classrooms from junior high through college.

Physical time travel is possible.

Senior year in high school, Honor's English, had to present a thesis for final term paper. That was mine. Teacher kind of gave me a glare when she gave me the approval. I swamped her, math, logic, physics, and I laid it out well. But I was also a well known bullshit artist, she gave me the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Crepitus]

Many topics and themes in sci-fi are meant to get readers thinking on those subjects, the pros and cons.
Heinlein is an excellent author with works of that sort, including his novel "Starship Troopers", not at all like the movie that bastardized the book.
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
&
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"
Are also very thought ~ discussion provoking.

I've read all of the above. I particularly like "the moon is a harsh mistress".

 

[Crepitus]

Physical time travel is possible.

Senior year in high school, Honor's English, had to present a thesis for final term paper. That was mine. Teacher kind of gave me a glare when she gave me the approval. I swamped her, math, logic, physics, and I laid it out well. But I was also a well known bullshit artist, she gave me the benefit of the doubt.

The only possible time travel is forward, one minute at a time.

 

[Winston]

The only possible time travel is forward, one minute at a time.

Maybe in three dimensions, not in four.

 

[Winston]

I've read all of the above. I particularly like "the moon is a harsh mistress".

Orphans of the Skies.

 

[Stryder50]

Heinlein. Damn great book. So, I will offer a compromise. You don't have to be a veteran to earn the right to vote, but we must bring back the draft, with little or no exceptions.

Actually, IIRC, Heinlein didn't limit it to just military service, but any form of public service. In today's sense that would be like Peace Corps, wildfire fighting, planting trees through the Forestry Service, etc.

Instead of a military based draft, I'd propose a form of about two years of public service, that could be military, or peace corp, job corps, "CCC", helping in hospitals, senior homes, rest homes, hospice, etc. Likely done between completion of high school and before on to college or trade school.

 

[Stryder50]

Physical time travel is possible.

Senior year in high school, Honor's English, had to present a thesis for final term paper. That was mine. Teacher kind of gave me a glare when she gave me the approval. I swamped her, math, logic, physics, and I laid it out well. But I was also a well known bullshit artist, she gave me the benefit of the doubt.

Here's a copy paste from one of my posts on this of about7-8 months ago;
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First you have to get around the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy.

You can change matter into energy, or vice-versa, but you can not add to or subtract from the total amount of energy plus matter in the Universe.

If you go back in time, you have removed a quantity of matter and energy from this "now" universe and added such to that "past' universe.
Most who understand physics will advise that such is impossible.

An example to consider. You ate a big mac burger before your trip back in time. Six months ago the meat pattie was in a cow and the wheat flour for the bun was growing in the field. when you go back in time, does the hamburger remain in your stomach and the cow have a hole where the pattie would have been, the field a gap in the grain stalks OR are the burger ingredients still there in their place and time of origin and you have a vacant void=hole in your gut?

As if that weren't complication enough, if you want to go back in time, say six months ago, then the Earth was on the other side of the Sun from here, and now. So you will have to travel about 184 million miles, +/-.
But that's only part of the physical distance travel portion of the trip. The Sun has moved around the Galaxy center and the Galaxy has moved relative to the universe in those six months so you have some more 3D astrogation to compute and travel.

Want to go back 150 years in the past, then that physical distance part of the equation just grew by billions of miles, not millions.
And that would have to be a near instant speed for the distance, violates that light speed barrier.

It may be fun mental masturbation to think about time travel, but anyone who understands science involved should notice the impossibilities that need to be overcome.
...
Just a basic start for you to chew on.

There are a few other complications, such as a physical time travel machine must also be a space ship, but maybe later ....

 

[Stryder50]

I've read all of the above. I particularly like "the moon is a harsh mistress".

Fair dinkum!
Watch out for the cat that walks through walls.

 

[luiza]

By the government or a rich enthusiastic person!


How would you react if the US government started handing out free sci fi games, sci fi novels, and free Apple TV subscriptions like candy to college students to get people thinking or dreaming of the future again?

It's been standard practise from "Whenever "
Latterly it's called Predictive Programming .

Old Hat for Intel and part of their normal business . .

 

[luiza]

First you have to get around the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy.

You can change matter into energy, or vice-versa, but you can not add to or subtract from the total amount of energy plus matter in the Universe.

If you go back in time, you have removed a quantity of matter and energy from this "now" universe and added such to that "past' universe.
Most who understand physics will advise that such is impossible.

Deliciously quaint .
Matters have developed leaps and bounds .
The younger generation have exploded these arbitrary limits .
But we know how fixed your thinking is.

 

[Crepitus]

Fair dinkum!
Watch out for the cat that walks through walls.

seem to have missed that one.

 

[Stryder50]

Deliciously quaint .
Matters have developed leaps and bounds .
The younger generation have exploded these arbitrary limits .
But we know how fixed your thinking is.

Your delusions are in competition with your ignorance.
Please explain how specific quantity of matter can be in two different locations at same point in time. Among other reality and facts you deny.