1982’s Blade Runner is set in 2019, so what did it get right about that year? Blade Runner, released in 1982, imagined a dark, neon-lit 2019 filled with flying cars, advanced humanoid robots, and off-world colonies. In reality, while we do have space stations orbiting Earth, that is about as far as we have come. Establishing colonies beyond our planet, even on Mars, which is relatively close, is still a huge challenge. Even if we discovered an extrasolar planet with perfect conditions, the dista