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We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies.
The tone of some these stories, journalism professors might frown upon because they were skeptical; they were asking questions, perhaps speculative, maybe the kind of things journalists shouldn't do.
The notion that the prenatal transmission of PTSD risk is adaptive is still speculative, but I find it rather poignant.
And yet, speculative though the idea surely is, I aim to convince you that there's reason for taking it seriously, as it just might be right.
It's very speculative.
Highly speculative.
Now, that might sound speculative, but the first paper demonstrating this was published in the journal Nature in 1969.
I'd like to introduce you to an emerging area of science, one that is still speculative but hugely exciting, and certainly one that's growing very rapidly.
It's a very speculative, far-reaching idea, and it didn't really go very far.
It's speculative, but it's one of those questions that is so important that if quantum mechanics plays a role in mutations, surely this must have big implications, to understand certain types of mutations, possibly even those that lead to turning a cell cancerous.
It's also still very speculative, but I have to share it with you.
It's still speculative.
We know nothing of this speculative inflating reality, save for the mathematical prediction that its endless expansion may be driven by an unstable quantum energy state.
As it stands now, they’re speculative explorations of mathematical models.
Dark energy would probably be harder to understand, but there are some speculative theories out there that might point the way.
Like all current theories of everything, that equation is speculative.
And instead of being speculative with air and just making up what I think might be the future air, I discovered this human-synthesized air.
My own speculative design research at the current moment plays with synthetic biology, but for more emotionally driven output.
Now let's see where this idea of humanistic AI might lead us if we follow it into the speculative beyond.
Without its inventor to keep it on track, the test he had methodically gathered so much data to support began to be used in all sorts of speculative ways.
This is a real concern, so we need to emphasize the paramount importance of reducing emissions and how speculative these ideas are.
One has to be very speculative, and many of my colleagues would say that we should not do this speculation, that we should simply keep our counsel until we know more.
In the cities, a lot of the cost of property is actually wrapped up in its speculative value.
I don't care much for French cinema (usually reflective and speculative to a fault), so maybe I'm biased.
The story on this seems rather interesting, with speculative hints.
Nowhere in Flynn's autobiography is the Klaus Reicher character mention, the homosexual encounter is speculative fiction, and the movie's claims that Flynn treated native labor badly are groundless.
True, much of it is speculated, and I would have liked to have known more about what was speculative and what were proven facts (there aren't many of them), but it handles everything quite well with a "Cruel Mother Nature" theme.
Things to Come is indeed a classic work of speculative fiction; both an essay on the destructive nature of war and the terrors of progress.
If Errol Morris, the wonderfully unconventional auteur responsible for such disarmingly offbeat documentaries as "Gates of Heaven," "Vernon, Florida," and "A Brief History of Time," decided to make a deceptively ordinary "average people who've been abducted by aliens and thoroughly examined by them relate their experiences on film" type of speculative UFO documentary it would probably be a lot like this engagingly quirky little winner.
Whether events were as dramatic as portrayed here is speculative.
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