They take a vague, science sounding idea, and bolt it onto their product in order to give it some validation.
We took a point off because there's no explanation of how HAL works, but again, since we don't know how to build an advanced AI, no explanation might be better than some vague science jargon. .
Ms. Tsangari lived there as a child for a few years, and this industrial ghost town, eerily uniform and now underpopulated, provides a vivid, vaguely science fiction setting.
This is why Hammond has branched out and made all those vaguely science-y programmes that seem like they should belong on Channel 5 or Discovery Turbo.
Interstellar belongs to what you could call the strain of "hard" science-fiction, which began with vaguely science-based films such as George Pal's Destination Moon and Conquest of Space and continued post-Kubrick with the likes of Philip Kaufman's The Right Stuff (telling the true, heroic story of Nasa's early years) and Contact.
This vaguely science-fiction action picture based on a video game (and not a sequel to 2007's Hitman) is an idiotic mess with a bafflingly dense prologue, an endless final battle, lifeless performances and anticlimactic twists, but it does have a degree of visual flair.
Despite Argento's claim, Maitland McDonagh observed that this vaguely science-fictional concept "isn't apparent at all" and, in fact, no critics noted the underlying futuristic theme in their reviews of the theatrical release of the film.
2013's novel The White Passage rounds out the list with a vaguely science-fiction take on the concepts of Time-travel and the consequences of an alternate fate of the lost expedition.
He wanted to remind them that officiating at international meets tended to be a vague, imperfect science, subject to political winds.
Every juice bar's ethos is a mix of vague nutritional science, spiritual hokum, puns, and employees who seem relentlessly enthusiastic about being a part of The Revolution.
If "Mad Men" were set in the Midtown offices, West Side apartments and Larchmonts of today, it would have the vague feeling of science fiction.
