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Huh. That's far more effective than I was assuming.
I was just thinking mass manipulations to help out on the F=MA side of things, for stuff like say, lobbing rail gun shells around.
But the ability to mess with mass enough to cause a space warp like that is significant.
That's extremely dangerous, it makes plutonium look cuddly.
A.) That was barely four posts. B.) none of the posts, least of all mine, were offensive, never mind "flaming" and C.) It was topic adjacent after my response to the query of whom would laugh at the Council freaking out over Quarians having advanced tech that wasn't progenitor tech. To which Faerie opinioned the genre of the game.Lastly, D.) please don't try starting a flame war by claiming there already is one.
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... Some friendly advice. When making a generalized statement that can be taken wildly out of context. It's typically a good idea to identify some idea of the context you intended.
To wit, however, you then have my apologies for my assumption of a undirected comment, practically after my own, seeming to making aspersions of my actions.
To wit, however, you then have my apologies for my assumption of a undirected comment, practically after my own, seeming to making aspersions of my actions.
FaerieKnight79
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So... you're saying we live in a "grim derp" world because the UN is actually pretty toothless and politicians in general are incapable of getting things done unless it's self serving.
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Don't know. Don't care.
I'm far more interested in how her ideas and inventions IMPROVE people's lives than grimderping it up.
Probably "much easier and more ethical", I think.
Cars. The hover tech would completely replace the need for the combustion engine, drive train, and wheels. Configure a platform with a static height and slap a car body on it and bam, revolutionize the car industry at half the price, since most of the cost is luxury items. Big market with low overhead, plenty of income to fund more research even without big brother chipping in.
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What's that saying again? Ah, yes. "Write what you know." If idiot balls = grimdark or grimderp, then we certainly have more than enough to go around in RL politics!
In all seriousness though, I legitimately think that ME doesn't fall under grimdark or grimderp. The defining trait of grimdark settings, even before they reach grimderp levels, is that there is basically little to no hope for the future present in the setting. Not just the ME3 thing of "We're in a dire situation, the Reapers are here and we have to fight the long odds!" since there was always the hope you could get through it, but legitimate "there is no hope. There is no chance to save people, you will most likely all die." Look at the universe of WH40K and tell me there is hope present in that setting outside of a few personal stories, especially before it started taking itself a bit less seriously. There is literally no singular faction you can point to as a good guy or bad guy, because they all have some level of being completely irredeemable.
Also, if the presence of large amounts of idiot balls in a story = grimdark / grimderp, then literally any moderately serious story portraying any form of incompetent government would automatically be a grimdark / grimderp story.
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Nah. Replacements for fork trucks, cherry pickers, automated cargo transport in warehousing. Basically the same stuff as cars but simpler to construct and with a far less stringent approval process and therefore quicker to bring to market.
A fine product, but I think the government would likely prefer that they not put that tech in consumer products. Taylor-tech, unlike tinker-tech or most fam-tech, can be replicated and understood by ordinary engineers, so it can presumably be reverse-engineered.
Her mini-MRIs are a bit less concerning for their inevitable theft by every remotely unfriendly state than the core component of the new 'makes every flying machine on the planet look like a caveman hang-glider' fighter prototype...
She's probably got something that could resolve all power generation and grid issues. Or could come up with one given a couple weeks.
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Hell, I don't think anyone would classify Babylon 5 as grimdark or grimderp. And yet, if the only requirement is "corrupt government" or "idiot balls in play" then that show would be considered such. So would Star Wars and Star Trek, in fact. Do people consider those grimdark or grimderp?
What makes canon Worm 'grimderp' is not the idiot balls or things going from bad to worse. It's that things only go from bad to worse to even worse yet, while those in power actively work to undermine efforts at improving things. Also, the fact that the setting flat out ignores many knock on effects which should be there. And the fact that Wildbow ignored how geology actually works because he wanted a city wide underground lake as the "aquifer" in Brockton Bay.
I'm sure the government would love to hoard all of her tech for themselves, but I don't think Taylor would let that stand for long. They get the first crack, but without her detailed how to guides I'm pretty sure reverse engineering any of it would take a very long time. Most would just call it tinker tech and not even try until it was too late to be an issue.
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My guess will be the room temp. superconductor.
If they can get the cost of manufacture down to where it's on par with aluminum wire, it will become the de facto replacement for all electrical wiring, everywhere.
You may not even be aware of it in your house.
Likewise, I could see the GRF generators being used in construction of things like bridges. Build the spans on the ground and float them into position. Keep the generators going until the span is suspended properly.
If they can get the cost of manufacture down to where it's on par with aluminum wire, it will become the de facto replacement for all electrical wiring, everywhere.
You may not even be aware of it in your house.
Likewise, I could see the GRF generators being used in construction of things like bridges. Build the spans on the ground and float them into position. Keep the generators going until the span is suspended properly.
You are overlooking two fairly significant issues. Static height means you are driving through hills and over valleys, good for one bad for the other. This is the simple problem to fix. Also of course there is the issue of motive force. Hovercraft are notoriously difficult to control. So you need some kind of revolutionary motive systems in place as well. Honestly friction is our friend in transportation simply because of the number of accidents that are lessoned due to it. Take foot off gas, slow down. In a hover car, take foot off gas, continue at speed until you hit something hard. So falling asleep at the wheel among other accidents become much worse.
Aircraft, Trains, most forms of mass transit of goods and people will benefit greatly. That 18-wheeler has still got 18 wheels but now it basically travels at it's empty load weight because the cargo weight has been removed due to riding an inch above the load bearing structure. This is a fix that can be quickly and easily mass produced and utilized by a standardized long haul trailer insert without any other required change to infrastructure.
Trains benefiting similarly, and ocean going boats same deal, imagine when every shipping container no longer adds to a vessels weight, and train car's no longer weigh anything above the axels.
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Makes me wonder... The cargo still has mass and weight, just from a different relative point. So if the object is put in motion, how is it affected when trying to stop or turn? Stopping several tons of floating mass when there is an accident could be fun.
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And there lies the rub. Fast, Reliable, Cheep, pick two.