05-13-2019, 12:32 AM | #1021 |
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05-13-2019, 12:45 AM | #1022 |
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But that's setting the bar low. It doesn't mean you can go somewhere and have the consensus be that you're an idiot for thinking the moon landing was real, barring certain conventions
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05-13-2019, 01:28 AM | #1023 |
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My impression is that most moon-landing conspiracists are from the US.
I've come across people (younger, non-Western) that weren't sure if we'd landed on the moon yet, and others who thought that astronauts have been to Mars and/or other planets, but that's just from a general scientific ignorance, not a rejection of mainstream knowledge.
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05-13-2019, 01:55 AM | #1024 | |
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05-13-2019, 09:04 AM | #1025 | |
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But in fact, it failed to have really important consequences. It's like one of those forgettable wars states sometimes fight with each other that one or the other "wins" and everything returns to the status quo. I suspect people would be less skeptical if everybody gave up on pretending it was a great and significant achievement and presented it as just one of a string of space missions to learn science-y stuff real people don't much care about and return some pretty pictures (which Apollo didn't do a particularly great job of, which likely doesn't help). I'll bet that the whatever small fraction of casual moon landing hoax believers who have heard of them would express much less doubt about Landsat or Voyager.
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05-13-2019, 11:59 AM | #1026 | |
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05-13-2019, 01:01 PM | #1028 |
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It's bad, and in the setting I proposed worse.
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05-15-2019, 11:29 AM | #1029 |
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Try this one...
The 2040s seemed like a turning point. Cheap commercial fusion power headed a series of new tech that brought boom times to the World and seemed to solve the climate change issue. However the wait to act seriously was to long. West Antarctica started to collapse into the sea in 2051. By 2063 sea level had jumped six meters. The economy is in chaos. Some small island nations have vanished. Certain vulnerable areas are brutally hard hit. Both the Nile and Ganges deltas are flooded and tens of millions displaced. Europe is hit with internal and external refugee crises. The USA is reeling. Whole states no longer have enough population to be states, but they demand their two senators and representatives! Basically this is a time of crisis and chaos. The possibilities for PCs and adventures are vast. This world has moved to TL9 and has the resources to deal with this crisis, panic is the main enemy. Note: West Antarctica is uniquely vulnerable to collapse because the glaciers rest of land below sea-level.
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05-15-2019, 01:36 PM | #1030 |
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In a future in which 90% of the population are unemployed and disenfranchised thanks to losing their jobs to automation and a failed luddite uprising the player characters are a latter-day Robin Hood and his Merry Malefactors stealing from the ruling class. But now a would-be revolutionary wants them to take things up a notch by stealing the control codes for the robotic troops who preserve the dystopian order.
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