“Like something out of science fiction…”

“Like something out of science fiction.” Don’t you just love that phrase? And the way it’s almost always used as a perjorative in the media? If something sounds crazy or impossible, that phrase turns up so often. Yet even when it’s used to describe something that’s really (finally!) happened, it rarely turns up without at least a hint of additional context that suggests, “Yeah, but those SF people are still nut cases.” Sigh…

Here’s today’s piece of cool news, anyway. Hurray for the Athena Group!