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Originally Posted by prosfilaes
That's, um, absurd. Atomic energy is, by definition, a TL7 technology. TL6 atomic energy is painting glow-in-the-dark watches with radium. The start of the development of the nuclear weapon marks the start of TL7 in GURPS 4th ed.
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The flaw in that line of logical is as Steampunk showed and Fantasy (F65) directly states not all the cartagories advance at the same rate. Alone one aspect of a TL does not mean that suddenly
everything else is at that TL. Take Etheria setting in Steampunk (126-129) has manned Interplanitary travel which is TL8 by "definition" (B512) but in nearly all other aspects that matter Etheria is a TL(5+1) setting.
Similarlly just because the US transcontinental railroad (Transportation TL6) was finished 1869 doesn mean suddenly all the other TLs jumped to 6; heck antibiotics (Medicine TL6) were not even discovered until 1929 and it was not until WWII that they could be made at a reasonable scale. Conversely if Pasteur had just been a little more lucky (
Pasteur's Legacy) the antibiotics revolution could have been kicked off in 1877.