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There is a discussion of Battlestar Galactica<\/a> taking place at the United Nations right now<\/a> (HT Galactica Sitrep<\/a>). This may be an important factor in people continuing to take science fiction seriously even if the Sci-Fi Channel goes ahead with changing its name to something silly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There is a discussion of Battlestar Galactica taking place at the United Nations right now (HT Galactica Sitrep). This may be an important factor in people continuing to take science fiction seriously even if the Sci-Fi Channel goes ahead with changing its name to something silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nSerious Sci-Fi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is a discussion of Battlestar Galactica taking place at the United Nations right now (HT Galactica Sitrep). 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