io9.com — We love a good science fiction story, but sometimes reality is just as strange. While we may have seen 2001 come and go without an actual space odyssey, the last eight years have been full of events that - had they not actually happened - could easily pass for science fiction.
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dundasbroJul 21, 2008
Wouldn't it be Sci-Fi becoming reality and not the other way around?
josephblosephJul 21, 2008
What's with those dolts commenting on how earthquakes and environmental concerns being sci-fi? Disaster films are for the most part not sci-fi films, and when they are, you get something like the Core. Of course, 9/11 is not really sci-fi either; actually, I'm ending my post here to bury
fathomJul 21, 2008
Those reasons suck
Closed AccountJul 21, 2008
I was shooting an interview at the CDC in Atlanta a couple of years ago and my media liaison said, "When I started working here in 1999 there were three buildings. Now there are nineteen. SARS and Avian Flu have been very good to us."
zip000Jul 21, 2008
Live Free Or Die Hard was far-fetched!I can go along with launching a car off a ramp to blow up a helicopter, but you lose me when someone can hack into a random elevator's CCTV.
h0ll0wJul 21, 2008
Hey everyone. I wrote this article, actually. Thanks for all the diggs!
sharkytechJul 23, 2008
Is it just me, or does that cylinder in the picture look like a giant sonic screwdriver?