List of references to cold fusion in popular culture

The novelty and potential of cold fusion has entered the popular culture:

*"", a 2002 video game features cold fusion on level 10
*"The Saint", a 1997 film starring Val Kilmer who plays a thief (Simon Templar) hired to steal a cold fusion formula.
* "Final Exam", an "Outer Limits" episode.
* "The Skylark of Space", a 1928 novel.
*"Chain Reaction", a 1996 film starring Keanu Reeves
*"", a 2002 video game in which cold fusion reactors supply power to a mobile American military.
*"Sim City 2000" and "Sim City 3000", a video game in which a cold fusion generator is the last available power plant on the game.
*In the "Stargate SG-1" episode "Prisoners", a woman on a prison planet uses what Carter thinks is cold fusion to power the gate for a manual dial-out.
*"Starcraft" A Sci-fi Strategy game that features the use of cold fusion in the transportation.
*"SeaQuest DSV" episode entitled "Dagger Redux" deals with a disgraced child prodigee named Dr. Russ Ketchum (aka "The Marauder") who believes that the missing element in cold fusion would be prehistoric insects buried for millions of years underneath the ocean floor and plots to destroy the "seaQuest" in order to freely mine the material.
*"Breaking Symmetry", a 1999 privately distributed, feature-length film written, produced and directed by former M.I.T Professor Keith Johnson (see [http://www.breaksym.com/ www.breaksym.com] ).
*Chris Ryan's 2006 novel "Ultimate Weapon" features the mention of cold fusion regularly as the main plot.
*In "City Life" the final form of power supply is cold fusion.
*The "Back to the Future" trilogy features a cold fusion power module that powers the "DeLorean" time machine for the entire second and third film and the final part of the first.
*Comedy troupes Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie and the Atomic Improv Company produced a play titled "Cold Fusion" in which Pons and Fleischmann returned from years of exile in Japan with working Cold Fusion products, overcoming a conspiracy to suppress the discovery.
*Developers at Apple Computer working on the Power Macintosh 8100 product line referred to the project internally as "Cold Fusion". Other Power Macintosh lines released conjointly with the 8100 were code-named after the Piltdown Man (an archaeological 'find' discredited as a hoax) and Carl Sagan, an astronomer. Sagan sued Apple over the association of his name with discredited theories, and lost the case.
*In "8-Bit Theater", the character Red Mage makes a "cold fusion generator" out of ice. (Episode: 517)

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