What the hell qualifies as sci-fi?

No - this is not going to be a debacle about "future fantasy" and other such time wasting concept... it's about sci-fi... the non-genre, because sci-fi ISN'T A GENRE. In a sense. Perhaps the delineation was more obvious a while ago.

These days, it seems as if everything is getting tossed into the genre. Lost, Heroes and so on and so on... even Buffy and Angel. All unceremoniously dumped into it... even Smallville. Naturally, science fiction leads to the notion of people flying on rocket ships... that's what sci-fi used to be.

Sci-fi seems different now. We must refute the notion that superpowers constitute sci-fi... a century or close, means they're their own genre. Perhaps more legitimately than sci-fi. Lordy, if Heroes keeps it up... they'll be struggling to make enough superhero films and shows.

But it's not really sci-fi, hell the Sci-Fi channel thinks that horror, giant snakes and pro-wrestling are sci-fi...

Sci-fi is sometime in the future, involves techology beyond us and such... anything else probably needs a better name NOT FUTURE FANTASY.