Timeline for Questions about science fiction technologies that have real world origins
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| Oct 3, 2014 at 19:54 | vote | accept | Zibbobz | ||
| Aug 29, 2014 at 19:24 | comment | added | Zibbobz | @Richard Exactly, and strangely I think that would be on-topic too...but I'd downvote it in an instant. On-topic and high-quality are two different things after all. What's on-topic isn't always necessarily good. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 19:19 | comment | added | Valorum | @Zibbobz - My first thought was 'if this is on-topic' then is 'when was the first mention of hats in science fiction' also on-topic? | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 19:10 | comment | added | Zibbobz | @Richard I do agree though that asking when it first appeared in Science Fiction Writing is on-topic. Though maybe not the greatest question to ask - and also encouraging other like-worded questions of low quality. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 17:22 | comment | added | Valorum | Precisely. Since it's real, asking "who was the first author to mention it" is clearly off-topic. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 15:44 | history | edited | curiousdannii | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2014 at 15:16 | comment | added | curiousdannii | What do you think about this distinction: "What is the earliest reference to X in a work recognised as sci-fi/fantasy?": on-topic, vs "What is the earliest reference to X in all creative works ever?": off-topic. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 15:13 | comment | added | curiousdannii | The fictionality of a technology should be irrelevant. If asking about the origins of a trope which is used in sci-fi (among other genres) is on-topic, then the question should be on-topic. Sci-fi isn't about inventing things. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 15:06 | comment | added | Zibbobz | What about the specific question linked, which is about the origin of a 'sci-fi' technology that turned out not to be sci-fi in origin? | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 15:02 | history | answered | curiousdannii | CC BY-SA 3.0 |