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Full Description
Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy. Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy? This book is a fun look at what can, and can't, be achieved with current technology in today's laboratory experiments.
Fans of the Jetsons, Star Trek, and Star Wars will learn the facts behind the fiction through entires that describe the scientific inventions and procedures on the screen, and how they differ from the reality. Van Riper shows us who innovators like Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton really were before they were mythologized. He discusses how animals such as chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants are portrayed in books and films, and what we really know about animal intelligence. This book lifts the curtain on science fiction, revealing how and where scientific laws have been discarded for the sake of a good plot.
Contents
Conventions Used in this Book Introduction Entries Acceleration Action-Reaction, Law of Alternate Worlds Androids Atomic Energy Chimpanzees Clones Comets Computers Cryonics Cyborgs Darwin, Charles Death Rays Dinosaurs Dolphins Dreams Earthquakes Eclipses Einstein, Albert Electricity Elephants Epidemics Evolution Evolution, Convergent Evolution, Human Experiments Experiments on Self Extinction Flying Cars Food Pills Franklin, Benjamin Galileo Genes Genetic Engineering Gorillas Gravity Houses, Smart Ideas, Resistance to Inertia Insects Insects, Giant Intelligence, Animal Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Human Life, Extraterrestrial Life, Origin of Lightning Longevity Magnetism Mars Matter Transmission Meteorites Mind Control Miniaturization Miracle Drugs Moon Mutations Newton, Isaac Organ Transplants Prehistoric Humans Prehistoric Time Psychic Powers Race Radiation Relativity Religion and Science Reproduction Robots Sharks Space Travel, Interplanetary Space Travel, Interstellar Speed of Light Speed of Sound Superhumans Theory Time Travel UFOs Vacuum Venus Volcanoes Whales General Bibliography Index
