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How did the QC universe get so different from ours?

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Is it cold in here?:
With no official word from Jeph on the subject, the field is wide open for uninformed but fun speculation.

My favorite idea so far is that it's a parallel universe in which the space program wasn't all but shut down after Apollo but was fully funded instead. The resulting progress in electronics made the AnthroPCs possible (along with NASA development of robotics for space exploration). This also resulted in space stations being so commonplace that a very rich private citizen can own one.

What contradictory but creative theories do others have?

Doug S. Machina:

QC is actually a superhero comic.

Take Hannelore's parents:  a Mad Scientist on a space station, and a female Lex Luthor. There's the military robots (Deathbot 9000 was an obsolete example.) There's even a minor superhero around. (We know it's not just Pizza Girl's work uniform, they ordered from the same pizza place and the delivery guy wasn't dressed like that.) This is also why space travel and robots and more advanced: people like Hannelore's father are pushing ahead, but they don't just use the technology for superhero battles. There might hypersonic flights to Australia in two hours, colonies on the Moon, solar power satellites. But the focus of the story means we don't see them. When was the last time you thought about where the power for your computer came from, let alone visited a power plant?

So, elsewhere, heroes are flying through the sky,  supervillains are trying to take over the world. But we're not watching them, because even with extrordinary adventures, life goes on and people get together and break up and drink coffee and obsess over music. That's the "world" part of "save the world".

Neat, eh?

Border Reiver:
It all comes down to the fiction writing skills of a certain writer....

Econoline:
Another difference would be that either global warming has advanced to the point where it no longer ever snows or gets really cold in western Mass., or else technology has advanced to the point where control over the weather is possible (perhaps by means of a huge geodesic dome a la the one in The Truman Show?)

P.S. Re the "superhero comic" scenario: in addition, there's the Vespa Avenger with her phaser-equipped Vespabot, and possibly also the Tequila Monster.

Scruffy:

--- Quote from: Econoline on 17 Mar 2008, 10:13 ---Another difference would be that either global warming has advanced to the point where it no longer ever snows or gets really cold in western Mass., or else technology has advanced to the point where control over the weather is possible (perhaps by means of a huge geodesic dome a la the one in The Truman Show?)

P.S. Re the "superhero comic" scenario: in addition, there's the Vespa Avenger with her phaser-equipped Vespabot, and possibly also the Tequila Monster.

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According to one forum member, who broke down time lapse of the comic, it could theoretically have only been 46 days!  It may just be summer!

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