05-29-2019, 04:16 PM
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Re: What could a scientist in an advanced civilization with FTL be working on?
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Originally Posted by Irish Wolf
What's the rest of the tech level like? Harry Turtledove had a fairly brilliant short story, "The Road Not Taken", based on the idea that the rules underlying FTL are so different from the rest of physics that those races who discovered FTL never developed things like sophisticated metallurgy, advanced firearms, or computing devices. So a starship lands its wooden hull on Earth, confident that they can easily overwhelm us because we don't have FTL, and find their leather armor and flintlocks aren't a lot of use against tanks and Kevlar body armor and automatic rifles...
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Like Star Trek
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