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August 16, 2019: Science Fiction

Science explores the enigma of our world through logic and reasoning. When science merges with imagination, creativity, and expressionism that embraces the reasoning of logic and reasoning, science fiction is born. Science fiction explores the what if of science. Science is all about experimentation, hypothesizing, and theorizing information. Fiction brings out the imagination of experimenting various scenarios that could be plausible like unidentified flying objects and aliens.

Unidentified Flying Objects, also known as UFOs, are an integral part of science fiction. UFOs are intellectual and advanced spacecraft that can travel light years in a matter of seconds throughout the universe. Science Fiction explores the what if of UFOs. Although UFOs are written in literature as entertainment, science fiction does explore the possibilities of human interaction with UFOs. Some interactions have actually occurred in real life and are imagined through the creative pen of an author. Skeptics about the existence of UFOs are aplenty yet there are historical references to UFO sightings in the United States.

Aliens are the heart of most science fiction literary works. Aliens can be human like or nonhuman, friend, or foe. In my opinion, I believe that aliens are real. Science fiction delves into the what if of aliens. How can the great pyramids and sphinxes in Egypt or the Colossus of Rhodes be built by mere mortals? Who were these "gods and goddesses" the ancient world all feverishly worshiped? The characteristics are too coincidental to not be aliens. I do not believe that humans in those eras, who had very low life expectancy and were physically inferior than humans of today, could be strong enough to create these wondrous works or be intelligent enough to think of intense story lines. Science fiction has yet to be proven as scientific fact, but the creativity and imagination of it is something to contemplate.

August 20, 2019: Journal 2

Science fiction has went through significant transitions through the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's. In the 1960's science fiction is scary. The social climate and political changes causes a negative outlook against science fiction. The disruptive uneasiness of progressive changes in race, gender, and politics, along with the introduction of science fiction, has the male dominated society fearing their statuses as doomed. Science fiction in the 1960's is rife with hostility and agitated fears of outside domination. During the 1960's Communism, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War all negatively impact writers who translate the pessimism into their works. Racial and gender revolutions became the domestic domination threatening the frigid patriarchal society. By the 1970's and the 1980's science fiction softens and is more creative thus embracing race, and gender relations. An interesting fact that I did not know about science fiction is the psychic predictions of H.G. Wells in his 1898 book War of the Worlds . In the War of the Worlds Wells predicts the air and tank warfare that predicts the coming of World War I and World War II. Interestingly, I believe that science fiction is all about aliens, monsters, space ships, and robots (artificial intelligence). In reality, those aspects have base in film and not actual scientific fictional works. Science fiction true base is in science and technology. There is no definite concrete labeling to science fiction. Like science, there are methods and approaches to science fiction. Science fiction's diversity brings an illustration of real-life unexplained events with scientific facts. There are topics that we do not know of their origins. The methods are in a hypotheses state until it is a theory.