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The phrase ‘science-fiction’ is first found in print in 1851.

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John Carpenter has said that Escape From New York was inspired by the science fiction novel "Planet of the Damned" by Harry Harrison.

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Props and effects from Battle Beyond the Stars were reused for another Roger Corman film, Space Raiders.

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Nick Nolte and Jeff Bridges both turned down starring roles in 1982's The Thing.

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A chronon is one-billionth of a trillionth of a second. The time it takes for a photon to cross the width of an electron.

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Joss Whedon wrote the lyrics and music for Firefly’s opening theme song, “The Ballad of Serenity.”

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“Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.”
― Freeman Dyson, Imagined Worlds

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Stargate (1994) is the first film to have an official website.

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Vin Diesel recorded all his lines as Groot for GotG in several different languages so his real voice would be heard all over the world

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Jules Verne’s 1863 book Paris in the Twentieth Century, set in Paris in 1960, correctly predicted cars, fax machines, and the internet.

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In The Running Man (87), the code to deactivate the Sonic Deadline (the explosive neck collars) is "653-9X".

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Rob Liefeld, the creator of Deadpool says that he got the name for his most famous creation from the Dirty Harry movie, The Dead Pool.

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“No power in the 'verse can stop me.”
― River Tam, Firefly

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The alien script seen on the computer screens in the Last Starfighter is Hebrew with some variations.

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“There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.”― Kevin J. Anderson

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The Apollo 11 only had about 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed.

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In an early draft of the script for the first Star Trek movie, Captain Kirk gets in a fistfight with Jesus.

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“First of all, you're dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly... yes, I know that rhymed, you really don't have to tell me.”
― Gayle Ramage

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If the entire history of Earth were condensed into 1 year, dinosaurs would be extinct by December 28th.

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Kevin Murphy was the longest-lasting member of MST3K. He started as a writer during the KTMA days, and worked until the final ep.