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List some things that were dismissed as science fiction

television
computers that talk
airplanes
helicopters
rockets
Just about everything that people wanted but weren't able to successfully produce yet.
 
household cleaning robots (and robots in general)

directed energy weapons.

wireless communication

submersible ships
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: waitman
lasers and oh yeah Aliens FTW!!!
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Speaking of Aliens, I saw this thing at the undergraduate research symposium...
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I did too, at the University of Washington. Funny thing is, I was tech support at the URS and these guys kept on having problems. I thought that I wouldn't have to worry about the robotics room having trouble with computers.
 
I'm gonna go with the old-school "Earth being round" and "Sun being center of the galaxy". Religious wackos would kill people in the olden days for believing different. I'm glad science was there to shut them up. 😀
 
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