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<blockquote data-quote="Priest_Sidran" data-source="post: 3147746" data-attributes="member: 30857">Alternately reading books like Ben Bova's Moon Wars series gives you the chills because a batch of nanomachines that eat carbon, e.g. usAs for the term Hard Science Fiction: It must be applied to things that are specifically placed firmly in the realms of real science rather than proposed science. For instance dealing with death rays, and FTL is a proposed science whereas Weapons grade lasers, and slow, silent marches through space are hard science fiction. Nanotechnology in the science fiction sense, is a proposed science in that it is usually something that does things which are not being done currently. It should be said that light has been proven to not move at the same rate of speed, and that it can even be slowed down or sped up in laboratory situations.&nbsp; To the point that a pulse of light shot at a target can be sped up to hit it before another beam of light shot at the same time does. As with a number of other Science fiction elements FTL, Antigravity among many have been experemented with within laboratory settings since the 60's.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Priest_Sidran, post: 3147746, member: 30857"] Alternately reading books like Ben Bova's Moon Wars series gives you the chills because a batch of nanomachines that eat carbon, e.g. us As for the term Hard Science Fiction: It must be applied to things that are specifically placed firmly in the realms of real science rather than proposed science. For instance dealing with death rays, and FTL is a proposed science whereas Weapons grade lasers, and slow, silent marches through space are hard science fiction. Nanotechnology in the science fiction sense, is a proposed science in that it is usually something that does things which are not being done currently. It should be said that light has been proven to not move at the same rate of speed, and that it can even be slowed down or sped up in laboratory situations. To the point that a pulse of light shot at a target can be sped up to hit it before another beam of light shot at the same time does. As with a number of other Science fiction elements FTL, Antigravity among many have been experemented with within laboratory settings since the 60's. [/QUOTE]

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