# Reasons I'm happy SciFi hasn't become reality **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164 "2008-01-03T19:34:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/21 "2008-01-03T23:19:23Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] 3) No horrible aliens will try to EX-TER-MI-NATE us. [/QUOTE] In the same vein, sadly, David Tennant is not going to suddenly pop up and kidnap me into a London police box. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/22 "2008-01-03T23:45:10Z")
I’m glad that Farrah Fawcett(-Majors) isn’t trapped on an isolated research station on Saturn’s third moon with an 8’ tall, gleaming chrome homicidal robot. I mean, hasn’t that poor woman suffered enough? What? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/23 "2008-01-03T23:57:02Z")
I’m glad I didn’t have to eat tree-of-life at around forty years old and turn into a wrinkly, sexless, xenophobic, paranoid old biddy. Oh, wait. Well, then, where’s my super intelligence? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/24 "2008-01-03T23:58:13Z")
Communism never conquered the world. Nor is the Soviet Union even around. Giant asteroids have yet to lay waste to the world. A time travelling grandchild has yet to show up and murder me. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/25 "2008-01-04T00:03:33Z")
I’m also glad there aren’t any gun-spewing anti-sex propaganda spouting giant flying stone heads around. Also, I’m not at risk of running into a diaper wearing Sean Connery. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/26 "2008-01-04T00:07:00Z")
[QUOTE=Superfluous Parentheses] Also, I’m not at risk of running into a diaper wearing Sean Connery. [/QUOTE] Give him a couple of years… ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/27 "2008-01-04T00:08:56Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Give him a couple of years… [/QUOTE] Well, as long as he wears PANTS! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/28 "2008-01-04T00:13:54Z")
[QUOTE=Superfluous Parentheses] Well, as long as he wears PANTS! [/QUOTE] Aye, you’d like THAT, wouldn’t ye, Trebek? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/29 "2008-01-04T01:38:37Z")
We haven’t been overrun by those damn Klingons, Kryptonians, Martians and others of that ilk. It’s bad enough that our jobs are outsourced to other parts of Earth. I don’t have to worry about going back in time, stepping on a cockroach and coming back to find Hitler won Warld War II. If I had simply put on the hood of knowledge, I wouldn’t have gone to college and learned about sex, gambling and drinking. I don’t have to waste my money on a book called To Serve Man only to find out it’s a cookbook. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/30 "2008-01-04T02:24:27Z")
I’m glad that radiation doesn’t produce spectacular terategenic mutations, “only” cancer and weakened immune systems. ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/31 "2008-01-04T02:30:21Z")
I can’t believe everyone’s missed the number one reason why SF should never come true: SPANDEX JUMPSUITS. (ETA: I know that it’s practically a forum law that any time someone says ‘I can’t believe everyone missed x’ someone upthread has already mentioned X. Feel free to quote the X I missed back at me.) ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/32 "2008-01-04T02:42:37Z")
So far, the giant ants, grasshoppers, tarantulas, and fire-breathing Japanese monsters produced by underground atomic weapons testing have failed to make themselves known. Mars does not apparently need women after all. ---
**Author:** ![WilhelmGefallen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@WilhelmGefallen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilhelmGefallen)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/33 "2008-01-04T02:49:10Z")
[QUOTE=jacquilynne] I can’t believe everyone’s missed the number one reason why SF should never come true: SPANDEX JUMPSUITS. (ETA: I know that it’s practically a forum law that any time someone says ‘I can’t believe everyone missed x’ someone upthread has already mentioned X. Feel free to quote the X I missed back at me.) [/QUOTE] Heh that’d be the OP then, it even comes with a handy dandy photo guide 😉 > [@A Monkey with a Gun](#): > > 2.) I don’t dress in goofy jumpsuits like this guy… ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/34 "2008-01-04T02:53:29Z")
Dude, I carry a telephone and a tiny computer with me whereever I go. Science fiction **has** become reality. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/35 "2008-01-04T03:20:46Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] I’m glad I didn’t have to eat tree-of-life at around forty years old and turn into a wrinkly, sexless, xenophobic, paranoid old biddy. Oh, wait. Well, then, where’s my super intelligence? [/QUOTE] Considering your name, I would assume you are the luckiest person alive :D. ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/36 "2008-01-04T03:39:17Z")
[QUOTE=WilhelmGefallen] Heh that’d be the OP then, it even comes with a handy dandy photo guide 😉 [/QUOTE] Wow. I suck tremendously. I think I got distracted by the robot part of that one and missed the jumpsuit bit entirely. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/37 "2008-01-04T06:05:39Z")
Well, technically a lot of the stuff in the OP still has time to happen. I’m kind of happy the moon hasn’t gone hurtling off into space, yet kind of sad we really haven’t had the opportunity to try. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/38 "2008-01-04T06:21:54Z")
I’m pleased to not be a living battery for my robot overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/39 "2008-01-04T06:34:06Z")
1. Earth has yet to be destroyed in order to make way for a hyper space bypass. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reasons-im-happy-scifi-hasnt-become-reality/432164/40 "2008-01-04T06:38:59Z")
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