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* ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' has aliens who share the same basic body resemblance as humans (walking on two legs, two arms, head, vaguely similar facial layout), and FTL communication but no travel, with the latter playing no part in the actual film and only existing in backstory.
* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' has something called an intrinsic field, which is said to be a field of energy that holds atoms together. When Jon Osterman was trapped in an "Intrinsic Field Separator" he is disintegrated and afterwards becomes Dr Manhattan. The concept is never brought up again and Dr Manhattan's powers are based on quantum mechanics. There is also a second fib in the form of psychics existing but that is only brought up twice.
* ''[[Rocket Girls]]'': Except for the skintight spacesuits, the technology for everything depicted in this story exists right now - and MIT is working on the spacesuits. Whether we ''should'' send 16-year-old girls into low-Earth orbit is another matter, of course, but we ''could''. The only reason this doesn't belong on the [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness/Speculative Science|Speculative Science]] list is that one character appears to have some sort of minor psychic ability that doesn't really affect the story.
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