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MoSeS:
Combind with other post for coherence. ;D
MoSeS:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on August 03, 2010, 07:32:59 PM ---why is saying that alien technology provides infinite free energy unbelievable . you are assuming that these races evolved technologically along the same lines as humans. there is a very interesting documentary done by this physicist and his theory is that advanced races may have technology so vastly different from ours that what we think of as advanced science could be a infants toy to them. free infinite energy is not outside the realm of possibility.
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Infinite energy may not even be that far from reality currently. Take the Super Colliders and the photons/anti-matter or whatever those whacky scientist are working on. Anyways I am no physicists, but it seems that even in reality infinite energy is not that implausible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Large_Hadron_Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator
The movie The Saint and Chain Reaction, both came out in the 90's i think, and both were about limitless energy.
I don't want to debate that the energy isn't infinite as there is a finite amount of hydrogen on earth, blah blah blah
I'm just saying, it's not too ridiculous to make a movie about it.
I think in most Sci-Fi the aliens have some source of energy that is practical infinite anyways.
I doubt all the Star Wars ship were Diesels.
What about all those alien energy weapons you see in most sci-fi, they have to get energy from something.
What powers a Transformer.
I think these questions all defeat the purpose of Science Fiction media and Author Craft, it's for entertainment.
If it's explained well and plausible, let it ride. (once again, I am not arguing what is plausible, just using this term loosely here)
Moreover, nothing is perfect, personally I could find some way to pick apart any fiction.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Nickeris86 on August 03, 2010, 07:32:59 PM ---why is saying that alien technology provides infinite free energy unbelievable . you are assuming that these races evolved technologically along the same lines as humans.
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No, I am working on the basis that there are certain fundamental things we know about how the universe works, and if you want to overturn them plausibly, it needs an explanation, not just an assertion.
The law of conservation of energy is not a feature of the technology we have to hand at the moment.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: MoSeS_ on August 04, 2010, 01:34:39 PM ---I think you are thinking more realistically of actual aliens and the improbability of them being able to mate.
I am thinking of fiction. I am thinking totally make-believe beings, having totally make-believe sex, and having make-believe babies. Just for fictions sake.
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I think you are missing my point a little.
If you want me to believe your fiction enough to enjoy it rather than hurl the book across the room with great prejudice, you will apply a reasonable degree of coherent thought to your premise and make it make internal sense.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: MoSeS_ on August 04, 2010, 01:44:31 PM ---Infinite energy may not even be that far from reality currently. Take the Super Colliders and the photons/anti-matter or whatever those whacky scientist are working on. Anyways I am no physicists, but it seems that even in reality infinite energy is not that implausible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Large_Hadron_Collider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator
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I am familiar with how these work, and converting matter to energy is neither generating energy from nothing nor infinite; large, yes, infinite no.
--- Quote ---The movie The Saint and Chain Reaction, both came out in the 90's i think, and both were about limitless energy.
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One could argue that this was part of why they sucked potato soup through a straw..
--- Quote ---I think in most Sci-Fi the aliens have some source of energy that is practical infinite anyways.
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I think you are again reading very different SF from what I'm reading. (Come to think of it, calling it "SciFi" is kind of a clue, there.)
--- Quote ---I doubt all the Star Wars ship were Diesels.
What about all those alien energy weapons you see in most sci-fi, they have to get energy from something.
What powers a Transformer.
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All these examples are fantasy. Star Wars has the Force. Transformers have that mystical meteorite thing.
--- Quote ---If it's explained well and plausible, let it ride. (once again, I am not arguing what is plausible, just using this term loosely here)
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Of course; this is why I am stalling on things that are neither explained well nor plausible. (Reasonable recent examples of things I think of as being well explained and plausible, if you're interested in a point of comparison; Greg Egan's Diaspora. Peter Watts' Blindsight, which you can get for free at the authors' website here: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm - fair warning, this is not the happiest book in the world.)
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