06-20-2022, 09:17 PM | #41 | |
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That is, GURPS does not consider "this technology we have now will continue to advance into the future" to be superscience. Its use of that label is more restricted. So your argument, which rests on the assumption that power cells and advanced computers are superscience, cannot be right.
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06-20-2022, 09:28 PM | #42 |
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Re: 1822 superscience
Superscice power cells are one of the options on p.133.
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06-20-2022, 09:53 PM | #43 |
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Re: 1822 superscience
That's fine. But ordinary power cells don't have the ^ modifier. The exception establishes the rule in cases not excepted.
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06-20-2022, 10:13 PM | #44 |
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Re: 1822 superscience
Power cells in 4e (unlike 3e) are not clearly superscience; they're very very good, but not exceeding the limits of chemical bond strength.
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06-20-2022, 10:30 PM | #45 | |
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06-20-2022, 11:00 PM | #46 |
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Re: 1822 superscience
Did they believe it to be impossible to make, or just "we don't currently have a method to produce the necessary power"? Note things like powered armor and infantry-scale laser weapons (not just blinding lasers) aren't considered superscience, despite largely having that same issue - we don't have a method to produce the necessary power (at least in a form that is readily man-portable and lasts more than a few minutes/shots). And that's after seeing fairly significant boosts in energy storage and efficiencies since UT was published.
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Sure, if you dont consider it impossible, you simply dont know how, it aint superscience |
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06-20-2022, 11:10 PM | #48 | |
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06-20-2022, 11:38 PM | #49 |
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Re: 1822 superscience
I'm not sure either, but I think "people in olden times used to believe that powered flight was impossible" is one of those myths like "people in olden times used to believe that nothing could travel faster than sound" or "people in olden times used to believe that the world was flat".
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06-21-2022, 02:17 AM | #50 |
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Re: 1822 superscience
But the electron was theorized as early as 1838 by British natural philosopher Richard Laming. Just was it was theorized by the ancient Greeks there was a massive landmass in the southern hemisphere (terra australis incognita) which has become fodder for a host of 'the ancients knew of Antartica' theories.
"Terra Australis Nondum Cognita" with a totally different coastline appears on a 1570 map by Abraham Ortelius though that actual continent would be discovered until 1820. Admittedly not all theories panned out - Vulcan was a bust. More over Mars and Venus were considered able to support life which Mars being what Earth would become and Venus what the Earth had once been.
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