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Post by ShadowSouL Likes This on Sept 25, 2023 0:14:09 GMT
If the human race didn't go into space in the last 70 years, would shows and movies like Star Trek and Star Wars and all the rest still have been made?
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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 25, 2023 0:16:53 GMT
I think so, we already had stories about space aliens/UFOs long before we went into space (War of the Worlds was written in 1897). Also we've yet to invent time machines or androids and yet we've had countless science fiction made about them
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Post by mrellaguru on Sept 25, 2023 0:54:22 GMT
Yeah. People were fascinated by the idea of going into space and making fiction about it long before we went there.
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Post by Olaf Plunket on Sept 25, 2023 0:59:43 GMT
I think so, we already had stories about space aliens/UFOs long before we went into space (War of the Worlds was written in 1897). Also we've yet to invent time machines or androids and yet we've had countless science fiction made about them True, but science fiction was not nearly as popular before the excitement of actual Moon landings. There were five, count them five, spinoffs of Star Trek. |
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Post by primethefirst on Sept 25, 2023 2:21:24 GMT
There was John Carter, Flash Gordon etc before a space program existed.
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Post by Olaf Plunket on Sept 25, 2023 2:31:20 GMT
There was John Carter, Flash Gordon etc before a space program existed. You will need way more than one counter example to besmirch the grandeur of the effect real space science had on science fiction. |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 25, 2023 2:36:06 GMT
Wasn't Flash Gordon (which was pre 1950s) pretty much the inspiration for Star Wars?
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Post by The Trashcan Man on Sept 25, 2023 2:46:31 GMT
How come turds aren't star shaped when they come out?
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Post by thorshairspray on Sept 25, 2023 2:58:55 GMT
Yes.
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Post by primethefirst on Sept 25, 2023 3:05:15 GMT
You will need way more than one counter example to besmirch the grandeur of the effect real space science had on science fiction. Gulliver Jones Buck Rogers not to mention a ton of pulp fiction space travel stories
AE Van Vogt and others
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Post by The Trashcan Man on Sept 25, 2023 3:05:44 GMT
If our nostrils were on the top of our noses instead of the bottom, what would eye glasses look like?
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Post by Olaf Plunket on Sept 25, 2023 8:17:41 GMT
You will need way more than one counter example to besmirch the grandeur of the effect real space science had on science fiction. Gulliver Jones Buck Rogers not to mention a ton of pulp fiction space travel stories AE Van Vogt and others
Yes, there was science fiction before there was NASA. All those were not by the way. That is not the point. The point is that science fiction was not mainstream before NASA. Not everyone considered it mainstream after the Moon landing, but it really was with even more viewers than mainstream television. It can be said it started with Sputnik. Even that got a lot of attention, albeit mostly with engineering students. It became part of the culture. Quite many people know what "the universe where Spock has a beard" means. There are many catch phrases, "fascinating," "beam me up," "live long and prosper," and on and on. In comparison notice that science fiction is not mainstream today, not at all like it was. I suppose you are trying to help, but I am not invalid. |
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Post by abbey1227 on Sept 25, 2023 8:53:08 GMT
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Post by Winter_King on Sept 25, 2023 12:51:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2023 13:11:43 GMT
Maybe not exactly like that but sure, it's hard to say
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