11-14-2017, 09:46 AM | #2891 | |
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11-14-2017, 01:10 PM | #2892 | |
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Basically, Infinity hasn't encountered an open crosstime world, other than Centrum. There are ones with a secret crosstime agency (Reich-5, Merlin-1), and ones with limited skerry reach (The Nine Worlds, Yrth). What would Infinity do about a 'horse is already out of the barn, but not yet the farm' situation (rough metaphor) - the info to create parachronic travel is out there on a world, and it's just a matter of time before someone figures it out? If the rituals of pulp fiction or horror already widely published on a world can create crosstime travel, there's no single or group of people to stop. In Infinite Worlds, theoretically anyone on any world could 'invent' parachronics the same way Van Zandt did. It might not work the exact same, at least for projectors, but conveyors could be invented by any world, late TL 7 or above. And on Shikaku-Mon, it might work the exact same way. I had come up with a world where Hugh Everett's 'Many Worlds' theory became accepted wisdom when published in the fifties. It's now 1984 and computer technology is soon to become good enough for anyone to invent parachronics, not just Van Zandt. (it's also a world where alternate history is a popular genre of fiction, and numerous real worlds are represented in fiction) |
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11-16-2017, 01:14 PM | #2893 |
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11-16-2017, 01:21 PM | #2894 |
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Who would believe a fiction writer if he claimed while drunk to have visited other worlds? In fact, I believe that a few fiction writers claimed to have done exactly the same before they were sent to an asylum for the rest of their lives in our world. Of course, if everyone could pick up the secrets to jumping worlds with ritual magic through the fiction books of a group of pulp writers, I think that the I-Cops would be racing against time to destroy every copy of the books.
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11-16-2017, 01:22 PM | #2896 |
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11-16-2017, 01:28 PM | #2897 |
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You do know that narwhale tusks are often displayed as unicorns horns. Also the narwhale tusks are what artists based the look of unicorn horns on.
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11-16-2017, 01:42 PM | #2898 |
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Narwhal tusks aren't physical evidence of unicorns, even if you call them unicorn horns. This is no less true on Frazier-2 than it is on Homeline, as far as Infinity is able to determine. The existence of narwhals didn't lead to the impossible mass hunting to near extinction of undetectable, and probably nonexistent, unicorns on Frazier-2 because I don't see how these things are even related.
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11-16-2017, 08:18 PM | #2899 |
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Why would a Britain that possessed North America be weaker than a Britain that did not possess North America? With North America under its control, Britain would have been the world power, as it would have possessed the wealth of Australia, the Subcontinent, North America, and dozens of other colonies and commonwealths within the grasp. I imagine that Britain would have been able to conquer Latin America after it gained independence from Spain and could have eventually become the world government (One World Under The Queen).
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11-16-2017, 09:02 PM | #2900 | |
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