[Ice Age] TL0 Gadgeteers and Civilization-Building

Prince Charon · 11-27-2021, 04:50 PM

Thinking about The Flintstones in regard to this concept (because something vaguely like it could perhaps arise from the descendants of the Neanderthal band in the OP). The town of Bedrock is largely a TL(0+7)^ setting, but while some elements are basically sitcom superscience (the TV and phone which are equivalent to the 1960s CE versions, some of the ways animals are used, arguably also the presence of non-avian dinosaurs), some of it is not really that far off from what a Neolithic civilization could have built. The cars are an example: They work better than they should, but wheeled vehicles propelled and braked by the riders' own muscles are plausible at late TL0 (and may explain the proportionally large feet and legs of the men), even if they're ridiculously inefficient for a civilization that has mastered domestication of animals to the degree that the Bedrock Culture has... unless there's some TL0^ superscience advantage to them.

Thoughts?

11-27-2021, 04:50 PM	#15
Prince Charon Join Date: Dec 2012	Re: [Ice Age] TL0 Gadgeteers and Civilization-Building Thinking about The Flintstones in regard to this concept (because something vaguely like it could perhaps arise from the descendants of the Neanderthal band in the OP). The town of Bedrock is largely a TL(0+7)^ setting, but while some elements are basically sitcom superscience (the TV and phone which are equivalent to the 1960s CE versions, some of the ways animals are used, arguably also the presence of non-avian dinosaurs), some of it is not really that far off from what a Neolithic civilization could have built. The cars are an example: They work better than they should, but wheeled vehicles propelled and braked by the riders' own muscles are plausible at late TL0 (and may explain the proportionally large feet and legs of the men), even if they're ridiculously inefficient for a civilization that has mastered domestication of animals to the degree that the Bedrock Culture has... unless there's some TL0^ superscience advantage to them. Thoughts? __________________ Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted. Last edited by Prince Charon; 02-09-2022 at 01:21 AM.