<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/66b9a2af-1d57-4fdf-bc2e-fca03aef4c35/D5D754F9-CCB4-406A-B144-D69CE910A4BC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century" href="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century" style="font-size: 11px;">io9.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/io9.com/img/2CDA9D52-D50C-4BB8-B4AB-449B9156BED7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century"><P>We love a good science fiction story, but sometimes reality is just as strange. While we may have seen 2001 come and go without an actual space odyssey, the last eight years have been full of events that - had they not actually happened - could easily pass for science fiction. Here are five real life events that still seem like they've come straight from the set-up of a big budget summer blockbuster.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century"><STRONG><A href="http://io9.com/tag/estonian-cyberwar/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged ESTONIAN CYBERWAR" rel="nofollow" class="autolink" linkindex="61" set="yes">Estonian Cyberwar</A></STRONG>: It may not have been the biggest cyber attack ever, but it's probably the strangest. Last year, Russian hackers got so ticked off when the tiny nation of Estonia digs up the remains of Soviet war heroes that they shut down Estonian newspapers, banks, and practically the entire government by using denial of service attacks on a huge scale.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century"><STRONG>CERN</STRONG>: You need only look at pictures from inside the Large Hadron Collider to realize the incredible, science fictional scale of the apparatus.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century"> <P><STRONG><A href="http://io9.com/tag/space-tourism/" title="Click here to read more posts tagged SPACE TOURISM" rel="nofollow" class="autolink" linkindex="62" set="yes">Space Tourism</A></STRONG>: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/io9.com/img/6555DAAB-629D-4E64-881A-C9DA85F175F1" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century"><STRONG>SARS, bird flu, and the other near-pandemics</STRONG>: </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://io9.com/5027077/five-ways-reality-went-sci+fi-so-far-this-century"><STRONG>9/11</STRONG>: </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D5D754F9-CCB4-406A-B144-D69CE910A4BC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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