Star trek-TOS. TNG, and now some deep-sea scifi that has recently started as the third end of the sci-fi part of the horror channel, called 'seaquest DSV'
And reading a variety of scientific journals, and browsing some forums dedicated to the pursuit and advancement of different aspects of home chemistry and biology, plus a bit of physics thrown in on one of them (ranging from plenty of high-end furnaces for arc-melting metals, processing phosphates in a hybrid carbothermic reduction for production of white phosphorus, to even someone thats worked on a cyclotron [a type of particle accelerator] plus in both cases lots of people dedicated to DIY hacking of home-spun analytical equipment from spectrophotometry to mass spectrometry in at least one case, where someone built a mass spec for analysis of halogenated hydrocarbons, and things like using CD-ROM sections as diffraction gratings for IR spectrophotometry, hacking Iphones to DIYed IR spectrophotometers. All sorts of neat stuff of that sort, plus chemical reaction chambers, such as an Birkeland-Eyde style industrial reactor, scaled down for production of nitric acid from thin air, water and a magnetically-confined (travelling through a wider range of the primary reaction chamber in one hacker's model rather than a stationary arc, to give a wider reaction zone, which I found rather neat, like a Jacob's ladder arc)
I might have to build one myself too. Others have built vanadium pentoxide-catalytic reactors hooked up to sulfur burners for production of concentrated sulfuric acid. Given the possibility of laws being introduced in the UK banning OTC sale of corrosives, after a few acid attacks (in reality, very, very, very few in number, the vast majority of them being a single attacker on a spree rampage), which would be a catastrophe for hobbyists, with having to purchase through chemical suppliers as their only purchase option, mandatory end-user declarations and tight restrictions. And the actual number of these attacks has been so tiny that I could probably number them on one hand)
So, people are going to have, if worst comes to worst, and there is a knee-jerk crackdown (fucks sake, if you want to get the same basic result, throw boiling hot something or other in someone's face, what are the government going to do? ban matches? after banning matches, banning pieces of wood that can be bent into a bow, and sawdust to make a fucking bow-drill to start a fire? banning possession of more than a single piece of flint, or a single steel item? jesus fucking christ.)
So potentially watching my country go down the fucking toilet past the next deep-seated shit-stain on its way to the sewers, before it meets up with the handcart in which to travel to hell. Fucks sake. Why should people be FORCED to sign documentary statements of intent and purpose of use just because they need some concentrated sulfuric acid or a bit of fuming nitric acid, with the alternative being to make their own. Or resort to electrolysis and bloody careful and dangerous recombination of hydrogen from water electrolysis and chlorine gas from electrolysis of molten salt, melted with electrical resistance or plasma heating, leading of course to the need to build a suitable reactor capable of handling the high temperatures and corrosive conditions of a reaction simultaneously producing chlorine gas and sodium metal.
