I've learned many things from watching television science fiction over the years. Among them are:
- The landscape of alien planets will look like southern California, Vancouver, or England.
- Most aliens speak English.
- Alien architecture mostly resembles human architecture.
- Artificial intelligences can be made to destroy the computers hosting them by confusing the AI.
- Heat dissipation in space is a trivial problem to solve.
- Most planets have a surface gravity similar to Earth.
- Most aliens are bipedal tetrapods.
- Aliens and humans can interbreed.
- Circuit breakers become a lost technology once a species reaches the stars.
- Humans will be able to manipulate gravity, create AI, and travel FTL,but will not be able prevent participants from being trapped in simulations.
- Humans who explore space will have their minds taken over by unknown aliens at least once every few years.
- In space, only aliens have religion.
- There are things humans are not meant to know.
- Unknown diseases of alien origin can be cured within days, even hours, of first being encountered.
- Aliens really dig women.
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