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<blockquote data-quote="Norfleet" data-source="post: 1222436" data-attributes="member: 11581">I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. They had the Phlogiston and all that. That was, in the era of the ancient Greeks, contemporary scientific technobabble. The entire combustion-as-phlogiston theory was only replaced by the concept of oxidation within the past few hundred years. If you ask the people of that era, this would constitute science fiction: The idea of concepts like &quot;sudden decompression&quot; simply hadn't been conceived yet. Sudden decompression sucks, or blows, depending on how you look at it.Today's &quot;Science Fiction&quot; may very well be tomorrow's flat out fantasy....or reality. When it comes down to it, there's settings which are based nearly entirely on the &quot;real world&quot;, with fictional events and characters set in a historically authentic setting, and then there's setting which are based on completely fictional worlds, where the setting is based around mechanics which simply didn't and never existed in the real world at time of writing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Norfleet, post: 1222436, member: 11581"] I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. They had the Phlogiston and all that. That was, in the era of the ancient Greeks, contemporary scientific technobabble. The entire combustion-as-phlogiston theory was only replaced by the concept of oxidation within the past few hundred years. If you ask the people of that era, this would constitute science fiction: The idea of concepts like "sudden decompression" simply hadn't been conceived yet. Sudden decompression sucks, or blows, depending on how you look at it. Today's "Science Fiction" may very well be tomorrow's flat out fantasy....or reality. When it comes down to it, there's settings which are based nearly entirely on the "real world", with fictional events and characters set in a historically authentic setting, and then there's setting which are based on completely fictional worlds, where the setting is based around mechanics which simply didn't and never existed in the real world at time of writing. [/QUOTE]

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