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Alice Grove MCDT - January 2015
Is it cold in here?:
Since Ardent has no understanding of money he can't take advantage of retail services.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Jan 2015, 19:46 ---Now we know Gavia's job. She works at a car wash.
She's the detailer.
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*groan*
MooskiNet:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 20 Jan 2015, 22:43 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 20 Jan 2015, 19:46 ---Now we know Gavia's job. She works at a car wash.
She's the detailer.
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*groan*
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I suppose that if Alice can fix it, she'd be working in retail?
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 14 Jan 2015, 04:20 ---.....Anyway, this all relates to AG in the sense that a generic "transporter"--the Star Trek default--adds the same problems. No writer is obliged to actually solve those problems, but I'd said originally that I'd hoped Jeph was handwaving in an idea that didn't create those issues--like a wormhole. (The energy involved is still titanic, but wormholes don't copy people---unless they are turned into time machines, but that's actually a pretty tricky thing to do, so...). If it's going to be a basic matter/energy transporter, it would be nice to see that some of the implications of that technology actually influence the world the characters live in. (Like the occasionally used trope of, "we live this primitive way because we can. We can because we aren't primitive at all.") Matter/energy manipulation means you can have anything you need, which makes you question what the word "need" means.
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--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 13 Jan 2015, 21:23 ---......, I'd rather just handwave in something equally improbable without the explosions and replication effect--like a wormhole or something.
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The writer of schlockmercenary had addressed both topics of macro and micro wormholes and their application as well as the application of nanites for military use.
Add in politics, intrigue, spy stuff, marketing, lots of explosions and stuff. Did I mention alien aliens? You might recognize a few that were inspired by classic storied races.
A different premise on which to base transporter technology is extrapolating the use of the Diode Tunneling Effect. Mind you that effect still required something on either side of the space being traversed. Well that and compensation for things like relative motion and altitude. Some good short stories and books were based on that idea.
Fantasy has it easy. All you need is a 5th level teleport spell.
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Star Trek was always science lite in TOS but I felt they kept their hand-waving limited and wrote everything down so things at least were consistent.
Each series became less and less science and more, throw the latest buzzards at them since nobody will know what they mean anyways, we sure don't.
Add to that using a different explanation for the technology whenever they needed a technical mishap to write a story around.
The science that more and more of the stories were based on was tabloid at best.
Also a lot of the stories were "inspired" from a lot of older science fiction short stories and adapted by the screen writers [aka butchered]
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ReindeerFlotilla:
The Teraport. I'm familiar. ;p
Pillage. Then burn.
Howard actually went "there" as far as transporters go. The gatekeepers made copies of everyone who used their galactic skate transporter network and interrogated the copies to death. Ghey used the information for political and economic advantage.
Thus, the Gav. And Breya's husband.
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