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Originally Posted by Mysterious Dark Lord v3.2
The problem with modern science fiction is to have a neato gadget in a story before someone actually builds it.
The latest example is the Neutrino Communicator, a device which is, according to Ultra-Tech is not only TL 11 but qualifies as super-science (i.e. possibly impossible).
And now one's actually been built. |
Uh...no. That's like Hero's steam engine. It's not that neutrino communication is inherently TL 11^. It's that the neutrino communicators that
don't require a dozen tons of material as a backstop would be TL 11^.