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From: JRStern@foobar.invalid
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:17:33 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:
>In article ,
>JRStern@foobar.invalid says...
>>
>> On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:05:58 -0600, Doc O'Leary
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article ,
>> > Greg Goss wrote:
>> >
>> >> Modern North Americans just cannot fathom the scale of a horse-based
>> >> society.
>> >
>> >s/horse-based/sustainable
>> >
>> >And, sadly, the problem isn't just limited to North American. The
>> >majority of sci-fi hand waves abundant energy into the future, but the
>> >reality is that, so far, that appears to be the hardest hurdle we have
>> >facing us.
>>
>> It is hard, even (!) fusion has proved way more difficult than
>> anticipated and maybe we'd better assume that ground-based fusion (as
>> opposed to gathering the fusion power of the sun) will never be a
>> practical fuel source.
>
>Why? Unless something goes badly wrong with the next interation of
>fusion research in the EU the major technical hurdles will have been
>solved.
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>
>> But then, what choice does scifi have, the energy to move a starship
>> around at sub-light speeds, the unknown energy required to move it at
>> super-light speeds, and you have to store it all in a couple of D-cell
>> containers? Y'know, in the real universe it may just never happen that
>> way, and what are we gonna do, burn all the old scifi stories?
>>
>> I therefore salute how Stargate uses ZPM's - except that I doubt that
>> should a ZPM exist it could be zapped around through the stargate, as
>> the ZPM is usually portrayed as holding a lot of energy, not just
>> being a clever device to access it from another dimension or whatever.
>> Well whatever, just a quibble I sometimes have when watching.
>>
>> J.
>
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