1. Describe the difference(s) between science and science fiction?
2. In what ways does science fiction influence scientific research?
3. In what ways does scientific research influence science fiction?
4. How has science fiction shaped how you view the universe?
5. Overall, do you think that science fiction's depictions have had a positive or negative impact on your understanding of how things work scientifically? Explain.
6. In some cases, the science in science fiction does not follow what is known about how the universe works. So, although science fiction may make the next generation interested in science, it may be giving them misinformation about how the universe works. Should science fiction in the media be forced to follow the rules of the universe as they are understood? Why, or why not?