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New thread on Serenity's engines
POSTED BY: RaptorX
UPDATED: Monday, February 16, 2004 00:53
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Sunday, February 15, 2004 11:53 AM
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Originally posted by Grounded:
But that doesn't make sense. If high-tech like artificial gravity is cheap then equivalent or lesser tech must have made similar advances. If they've mastered gravity in 500 years then surely to goodness they can build a spaceship that doesn't rust...
Build a ship that doesn't rust and you don't get to sell another one to replace it. I'll give you a real world example, Henry Ford downgraded some of the parts on the Model T because they were too good and never wore out
Many items today are also made with a lifespan so we have to replace them too.
As for the other point how about there is plenty of high-tech in the 'Verse but it's strictly government controlled and corporate monopolies in the Core and Luddites on the Rim stifle innovation in the civilian sector
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Originally posted by Grounded:
But this thread was about trying to explain the science of the show and that just can't be done
Try harder
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Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:25 PM
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Originally posted by Hotpoint:
Build a ship that doesn't rust and you don't get to sell another one to replace it. I'll give you a real world example, Henry Ford downgraded some of the parts on the Model T because they were too good and never wore out
Many items today are also made with a lifespan so we have to replace them too.
As for the other point how about there is plenty of high-tech in the 'Verse but it's strictly government controlled and corporate monopolies in the Core and Luddites on the Rim stifle innovation in the civilian sector
Try harder
You're certainly determined Hotpoint
The technology curve on the show is just too steep, in my opinion. I recently convinced my mum to start watching FF and, strangely enough, despite being an entirely unscientific person, she said exactly the same thing.
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Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:38 PM
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Originally posted by Grounded:
You're certainly determined Hotpoint
Never give a gorram inch that's my (new) motto
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Originally posted by Grounded:
The technology curve on the show is just too steep, in my opinion. I recently convinced my mum to start watching FF and, strangely enough, despite being an entirely unscientific person, she said exactly the same thing.
I've spent time in the Third World where you can see basically stone-age technology being used next to computers. I don't see it as that far removed in principle (and we're on one planet)
It's a weird kinda feeling using a mobile phone and a GPS in the back of a horse-drawn buggy in the sahara by the way
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Monday, February 16, 2004 12:53 AM
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Originally posted by Grounded
Regarding nothing but the comment about the steepness of the technology curve, contemporary Earth cultures range from Stone Age cultures to a Tech culture embarking on putting a permanent base on the moon. I don't have any problem with the steepness of the curve. So, if you accept as one of the parameters of the game that the steepness of the technology curve is no impediment to its existence, you get to ask the next fun question, "What other social, psychological, spiritual, financial, material or other factors might be at play here to produce the otherwise irreconcilable juxtapositions of tech of such vastly different levels?"
I find it easy to imagine very wild combinations of factors having mostly to do with some variation of some weirdo colony leader saying "because I say we'll have no cell phones but rocket sleds are okay because I think they're fun!, that's why!" creating a 'verse that is pretty gorram diverse. Anything that can be, has found supporters and IS.
In Heart of Gold wasn't it, the baddie is characterized as holding back the technological/ financial developement of the colony so that he can play cowboy in some sort of fantasy American Wild West?
I'm just trying to keep you guys playing the game. We need your science!
lunatikat - been down so long it looks like left to me . . .
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