I try to have a balance: Decent book smarts and decent street smarts. Though, I'm more inclined to book smarts because I'm introverted. Admittedly, most of the "factual" honeysuckle I know, I learned from bootlegged documentaries, wikipedia, and cross-referencing enough times through processing of the scientific method, hence: "factual" information.
Example:
The Sun is roughly 93 Million miles away from Earth. Or roughly 3720 Earth-sized planets away.
Now in all actuality:
Those are pretty round numbers, meaning that this is a rough scientific estimate. In truth, even though we've sent a probe into the sun, it was a kamikaze mission to begin with. The Sun is actually so goddamned hot that if we were to lose our ozone layer,we would subsequently lose our magnetic field, atmosphere and then biosphere pretty much all at the same time and we would all die. However the fate of the future is indefinite. Humans could very well blow themselves into extinction before we actually manage to measure the proper sum and actual, factual distance between the Earth and the outermost convection levels of the Sun.
Protip:
If you want to see a badass Scifi movie, check out Sunshine. Yes, it's not entirely realistic in that it assumes we have sciences that we in fact do not have, however the film is...beautiful, to say the least. messed up, but beautiful. It became one of my favorite scifi movies.