A Si Fi watchmaker.

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Now was that so hard to admit? If it does not deal in reality as PER YOUR OWN WORDS, then it should be treated as FICTION.

Hard to admit?!? Fuck you. I never claimed anything else. You are the one who has seemingly been claiming that fiction of any sort ever makes any reality claims.

Again, people can come up with ideas, but to say mistakes or falsehoods or assumptions cannot be made in fiction is absurd. ANY TYPE OF FICTION. Si fi is not the only source of inspiration humans get their ideas from.

No shit, chucklefuck. There are a lot of stupid people in the world. You seem to be among them if you honestly believe that fiction is a problem because someone might take it seriously.

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what would you have us do about it?

Same thing they say to theists, PROVE IT. And every single one of those scientists you find credible will also tell you it is not up to them to do your homework.

Even at their level in a lab they are still having competing ideas. Inspiration alone is not enough. Depicting something alone is not enough.

You seem to have a real problem differentiating reality from fiction. I am making no claims about reality when I write a story that includes a hover car, or a blaster, or a starship, or a fucking "intergalactic gerbil wheel star drive." I don't have to fucking prove anything about these things, because they're not fucking real and I am not claiming they are.

You, on the other hand, seem to want verification of every idea that every writer ever comes up with. I'd suggest you stick to non-fiction (but none that is in the least bit speculative like Dr. Kaku or Dr. Krauss) and leave imagination to the people with intellects flexible enough to handle it without thinking there needs to be proof for every single detail of the story.