{"id":27069,"date":"2010-08-02T22:15:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/snf-sent-sage-science-to-comic-con-here%e2%80%99s-documentary-evidence-science-not-fiction\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T22:15:17","slug":"snf-sent-sage-science-to-comic-con-here%e2%80%99s-documentary-evidence-science-not-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/snf-sent-sage-science-to-comic-con-here%e2%80%99s-documentary-evidence-science-not-fiction.php","title":{"rendered":"SNF Sent Sage Science to Comic-Con; Here\u2019s Documentary Evidence | Science Not Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row, Discover hosted a panel on science in science fiction at this year&rsquo;s Comic-Con. This year&rsquo;s edition was moderated by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/\">Phil Plait<\/a> and featured a great lab-meets-film panel: Jamie Paglia (creator of Eureka); <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/sciencenotfiction\/author\/kgrazier\/\">Kevin Grazier<\/a> (JPL planetary physicist, Science Not Fiction blogger); Zack Stentz (writer for Fringe, Thor); and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/author\/scarroll\/\">Sean Carroll<\/a> (Caltech theoretical physicist, Cosmic Variance blogger).<\/p><p>The conversation was good and lively, with a nice mix of funny and interesting bits. But don&rsquo;t take my word for it:<\/p><p>As <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2010\/07\/31\/good-and-bad-science-in-science-fiction\/\">Sean pointed out<\/a>, we weren&rsquo;t allowed to include a few of the video clips in this footage, so here are the two clips he brought to show-and-tell: a forward-looking philosophy of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-PvwtS0htyk\">the proper relationship between science and narrative<\/a>, and an example of carefully exploring the logical consequences of an imaginary world:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8RBG9UqGj4l-JSbKnkd2Pwo80m4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/eddfa_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/8RBG9UqGj4l-JSbKnkd2Pwo80m4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/eddfa_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/eddfa_ejAoLklGH0s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/7b5ec_8IdhgeZ8clQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row, Discover hosted a panel on science in science fiction at this year&rsquo;s Comic-Con. This year&rsquo;s edition was moderated by Phil Plait and featured a great lab-meets-film panel: Jamie Paglia (creator of Eureka); Kevin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/snf-sent-sage-science-to-comic-con-here%e2%80%99s-documentary-evidence-science-not-fiction.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}