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Popular science today seems to amuse people of different perspectives. It has become known on TV, in books and films. Writer Edward Rothstein of the New York Times believes that today, science is worn into popular entertainment which I agree it is. There are so many things that deal with scientific problematical issues that scare people. Honestly it is awesome but it really doesn’t go into that scientific field of what science in reality is. It is fine to gain knowledge of innovative things, especially when there are movies like of mass destruction or the man kind/world coming to an end but where the theories are.

For example District 9, a science fiction movie of aliens which are inspired by scientific possibility. It is believed that the government is hiding secret chemical that scientist have been trying to use to gain control and power or an experiment gone wrong. Science gives me a sense of initiative roles. Wikus van de Merwe, is a manager at the MNU Department of Alien Affairs. He finds a substance of a mysterious liquid which ends up in his face. This fluid makes him ill and starts to transform him into an alien. His personal view changes as he comes to see things from the aliens point of view. He in the end tries to maintain his humanity but is seen as a full formed alien who leaves his wife a metal flower. This movie is based on the life of humans and the mysterious interaction where there could be possible communities aliens. This movie is awe because of the setting and plot. It can look somewhat like a documentary.

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