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Hey #scifi fans, what are your 3 favorite things about beloved sci-fi settings?
What are 3 things about sci-fi settings that annoy you?
What are 3 things about sci-fi settings that annoy you?
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@demi
My number one annoyance in media sci is that in a spaceship the direction of "down" is the direction the exhaust is shooting. In other words spaceships should be designed like skyscrapers NOT like freaking ocean cruise ships or passenger air liners.
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/advdesign.php#down
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@demi
Of course I have a whole list of other scifi tropes that annoy me.
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/misconceptions.php
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@demi
My pet annoyance in SF settings is the Star Trek transporter.
They invented it to avoid needing shuttle trip sequences in every episode. What they got instead was a technology with mind-blowing implications that they NEVER paid the least attention to.
My pet annoyance in SF settings is the Star Trek transporter.
They invented it to avoid needing shuttle trip sequences in every episode. What they got instead was a technology with mind-blowing implications that they NEVER paid the least attention to.
As soon as transporter tech gets out to the universe at large (and of course it would), some folks will find Bad Things to use it for.
Remote-control kidnapping. Remote-control bank / warehouse / treasury robbery. Assault troops (or warheads) delivered right inside the enemy's board room.
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@n1xnx @demi
In Larry Niven's The Theory and Practice of Teleportation, if you have a cold war planet with two or more superpowers, if they invent a transporter that does not require a transmitter or does not require a receiver, you quickly get a war where the planet is bombed into a state where the technology level is incapable of supporting transporters.
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/transmat.php#transreceive
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@nyrath
I’m curious if you or any of your readers know of any setting-destroying problems with teleporters that require both transmitters and receivers working in cooperation.
I’m curious if you or any of your readers know of any setting-destroying problems with teleporters that require both transmitters and receivers working in cooperation.
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