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Bren
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Or we could offer to sell them patented Earth designed advanced Empire saving technology for a very high price, including some nifty space ships and an agreement to not meddle in our internal affairs. I'm thinking that teaching them how to build hand rails around deep pits and power shafts alone should be worth that much.  |
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Fallon Kell
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Or we could invade their ships with teams of football players roped together like mountaineers and just push them all down the chasms and take their star navy as our own. It would certainly make going back to the moon easier...
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Ray
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:59 am Post subject: |
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| Hell, right set of Stormie armor, we could go to Mars! |
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garhkal
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I know i wouldn't mind having some proper storm commando armor, or even a suit of zero g armor.
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Ray
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| I'd be happy with an armoured VacSuit and some cooling systems. |
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Fallon Kell
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Heck, I'd settle for a blaster and a patent!
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garhkal
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Or any of their power generators that can use other stuff (like trash!) and a repulsor vehicle.
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Ray
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| It's the 21st century, where's my jetpack, damnit! |
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Bren
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| Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Ray wrote: | | It's the 21st century, where's my jetpack, damnit! |
With my flying car. Packed away in crates in that big warehouse we see at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. |
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| Ray wrote: | | It's the 21st century, where's my jetpack, damnit! |
There is actually a book on that. James Kakalios , the physics professor who wrote The Physics of Superheores also wrote a book called The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, and in it he addresses why we don't have jetpacks and some of the other amazing things that SciFi hinted at in the 1920s-1950s.
To save you the trouble of reading the book, it all boils down to energy Old SciFi sotries presumed a breakthrough in the field on energy that would ,make jetpacks practical. That didn't happen, yet. Instead, we got a breakthrough in information technology and it resulted in the creation of a lot of computerized gadgets, many of which weren't even dreamed of.
Star Wars was heavily influenced by those old time SciFi stories too, and that is one reason why it's high tech is so low tech in many ways. |
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| atgxtg wrote: | | Ray wrote: | | It's the 21st century, where's my jetpack, damnit! |
Instead, we got a breakthrough in information technology and it resulted in the creation of a lot of computerized gadgets, many of which weren't even dreamed of. |
Another rather fun example is the book series 'The Ship who sang'. Its basically about a family/clan that rules a substantial part of the galaxy. They are rather excentric and the family members each have their own cyborg spaceship with their own personality. Rather high tech right? Funny thing, with all this FTL travel, AI personalities that actually controls spaceships they still have data tapes (the book series was written during the 60s)....
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| Ray wrote: | | It's the 21st century, where's my jetpack, damnit! |
It's right here.
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