Definitely adjacent. The distinction as I understand it basically boils down whether or not there’s magic.

Like Star Wars has a lot of sci fi elements, but then space wizards who use ‘the force’ which is just space magic. Fantasy.

Dune I’m less familiar with - never read the books. Saw the first movie but was kinda distracted and never have it my full attention. Main character definitely showed some magic super power stuff, but idr much outside of that.

Most of them kinda toggle back and forth, like Interstellar is mostly sci-fi with a sprinkling of fantasy up until the black hole scene, then it’s mostly fantasy with a sprinkling of science.

Or there’s Star Trek, which of mostly grounded in actual science and theory, but it’s got a sprinkle of space magic here and there too.

Not many purebreds.

Wormholes always kinda rubbed me wrong in sci-fi. They’re always depicted in a way that screams fantasy, not science, with only one exception that comes to mind, which was Interstellar’s depiction of a wormhole as a sphere, even taking the time to explain why it looks that way.

The only got it half right though, since as soon as they enter the sphere it’s straight back to the fantasy BS with the blue tunnel. That scene could have been a really cool transition of entering the one ‘side’ of the sphere while exiting the other simultaneously. Cut from the crew’s perspective seeing lens-like distortion of the stars, to an external view of the ship moving into the sphere.

I kinda feel like that’s how they intended to do that scene, with the whole buildup about the sphere, but decided to throw a nod to oldschool science fantasy for some reason.

Oh well. They got it half right, and that half was pretty fucking sick - it was the first presentation of a wormhole that didn’t instantly yoink me out of suspension of disbelief. Until the blue tunnel ofc, at which point, yoink.

To answer OP’s question, I guess for me it’s less a specific concept as it is presenting something possible only in theory in a believable way. The whole lens-distortion style transition would have been way less flashy, but less can be more.

There’s also Langar’s Lines, which are a large factor in where your surgeon decides to cut!

Not even bald, but I tend to just do my whole head in one go.

Ages ago I ran out of shampoo and just used body wash instead… after a few weeks of being too lazy to buy more shampoo, I realized my hair was… completely unchanged.

So, fuck it. Water and body wash are my shower’s only two ingredients, for the past decade and change.

If it has a stinger, doesn’t make me honey, and is at all aggressive toward humans, it’s kill on sight. Idc if it’s a pollinator or w/e - either the other pollinators can fill in the gap after its death/extinction, or the ecosystem collapses… which we’re speedrunning the latter anyway, so fuck it, we’re not going to make a significant impact on the global collapse of life by being a little extra aggressive to fuckers like wasps, mosquitos, etc.

The antichrist.

That’s if you have employees. When you’re one of the peasants in the fields, best option is to support your coworkers laterally. The recognition is announced from up the chain, but it starts laterally.

Naw fuck that, if you’ve got good people on your team, nominate their ass! There’s been a weird stigma with that kind of shit as long as I’ve been in the work force, how it’s all just a popularity contest or shitty people always get it cuz they put themselves in.

And that’s often legitimately the case, but it’s a self fulfilling prophecy if decent work goes unrecognized because the stigma with the awards like employee of the month. Put nominations in for real things that deserve recognition, and the nominations for that will stand out like a sore thumb against the bullshit ones.

And people fucking love recognition! Even the ones who claim they don’t need it - you’ll make their entire week if you drop that on em out of the blue!

Also many of those kinds of awards come with tangible benefits like cash bonuses, scholarship access, or promotion potential.

The ‘losers’ get it when no one else is being nominated. Write that shit up!

95% survival rate

Oh, I had no idea it was that high! I had ~50% on my brain. That’s pretty incredible looking at some of these - crazy portions of their abdominal contents are just hanging out.

unfair we can’t have smooth, holeless abdomens too.

Gonna throw this upfront: Don’t image search this unless you’re prepared to see some seriously mutilated babies on the brink of, or in some cases shortly after their death. This is close to the top of the worst NSFL shit on the internet.

Anyway, gastroschesis. Birth defect in which the intestines are outside of the body at birth. The fix is to basically cut a new hole and shove them back in, with the resulting wound being kinda at the doctor’s / parent’s discretion: they can immitate a natural belly button, or just say fuck it and give it a clean closure line, the resulting scar from which can heal with virtually no visible scar tissue. I think it’s more common for there to be -some- disfigurement from the scarring, but babies have fucking super powers when it comes to healing, and a wound that would give you or me a ropy, nasty scar, would look like a little scratch on them.

So, not quite smooth/holeless in the way you’re probably thinking, but potentially not far off from it - all you need to do is be born with a condition that’s likely to kill you!

If only “AI” in science fiction and “AI” irl were synonyms.

*snoozes alarm*

…just five more extinction level events…

*zzzzz*

Can’t find it for the life of me… Describing a web comic vs actually posting it always feels like a flop, but…

Aliens abduct a physicist, who doesn’t seem to give much of a damn about the abduction but is instead enthused to learn about the alien tech on board, so they give him a tour of the ship. They get to the power reactor and start dropping a bunch of sci-fi jumbo about “We harness dark matter to… (sci-fi Ruth Goldberg machine) …and finally, we use the heat it generates to boil water and crank a turbine!!”

*Physicist drops to his knees in despair and let’s out a dramatic ‘noooooo!’

Paraphrasing heavily due to having shit memory. I thought it was a SMBC comic, but… /shrug.

and the world made a better place.

Cue the Anakin-in-a-field-with-Padme meme.