I meant the stuff on other planets. I get that the earth doesn’t note that much of an entry.
But what if Alpha Centauri has a whole chapter?!
The Puppeteers are such manipulative, cowardly, lying sthondats!
Stranger
Which begs the question of how and why they build big starships in the Star Trek universe when anyone could just find a phase gap in the shield frequencies or whatever technobabble and beam a small explosive device next to the warp core, causing it to disintegrate into a flash of enormous energy.
Written by the researcher so ill-prepared and constantly inebriated that he thought the name “Ford Prefect” would be nicely inconspicuous? You would learn more by reading The Celestial Home Care Omnibus or just sticking a fish in your ear and joining the Campaign for Real Time.
Stranger
Heinlein’s ‘The Number of the Beast’ has a flying car that operates in four dimensions.
That makes it infinitely worse.
Actually six dimensions; three spatial and three time dimensions.
Portable holes
A flying car. Not just any flying car though–the flying time traveling DeLorean from Back to the Future.
or maybe the Time Belt from David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself
Speaking of teleporters, replicators and Holodecks–how about a fully functioning Intrepid-class starship from Star Trek: Voyager. Maybe outfitted with a cloaking device.
Where does The Fifth Dimension fit in?
Well, if we are being silly, i want Harold’s purple crayon. I don’t want anyone else to have it, though. Just me.
Up in a balloon.
Up and away.
- Scalable room-temp superconductors (goodbye, electric bill)
- Mermaids (hello, sweetheart)
Not necessarily in that order
You definitely don’t want that.
Stranger
I think there’s an important distinction between “the computer is malfunctioning and I can’t end this program so I’m stuck in here” and “The computer is malfunctioning and is actively trying to kill me.”
Because I feel in the latter case, it doesn’t really matter if you’re in the holodeck or not. You’re in a spaceship; if the computer decides it wants to kill the crew, you’re going to have a dead crew.
I’d go to Omelas and set the scapegoat kid free.
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Like some kind of expensive private helicopter?
My Work experience:
UNIT: 2020-2025 (Occasionally 2135)
SHIELD: 2010-2020
I actually saw a flying car up in the air in the early 1980s. No one believes me. It wasn’t like the ones in The Jetsons or Blade Runner. It was more like the one featured in Popular Mechanics in the 1970s. You had to detach the wings and pull them on a little trailer when you drove on the highway.