STAR Labs actually does a pretty good job most of the time. It's just that it only comes to our attention when things go wrong.
I kinda need you to give some evidence in support of that statement. STAR Labs mandate is not to be SCP or Warehouse 13, where stuff gets tossed in a vault and forgotten about. It is to examine Alien technology and supervillian gadgets confiscated from crimes, and reverse engineer them to advance the common body of human knowledge so the newly discovered scientific principles can be applied to the betterment of the human condition. So..., in what ways have what was entrusted to them come to improve things?
I mean last time STARS Labs showed up in an episode, people in this thread were wondering if they were intentionally stalling, sandbagging, and non performing to keep any progress from happening. OL should want to make a functional version of STAR Labs not because the rare times things go wrong, but they do not seem to actually be having any successes worthy of note at all.
It's fairly easy to confirm that what OL has said is true and that he isn't missing something by just asking the Green Lantern's and the two resident Thanagarians, but until then I could see some legitimate complaints about not knowing the drawbacks of the technology fully.
Or hire one of the 2 legitimate Silvana children. Their father independently developed a Bleed Torsion Generator, and they acted familiar enough with. And are super geniuses anyway. Have them look at OL's blueprint of the Generator and explain what bit does what and the underlying principles. Or Kord; he probably knows a lot more than OL, at an idea. But Lois did not ask the scientist present, she asked the Superhero who is financing and acting as the public face. And whose response the thread kind of is over reacting to.
But Yog did not ask for reputable corroboration as to its efficacy and safety by reputable members of the Justice League or others knowledgeable in intergalactic matters. Or even "let's pause this until humans can understand it themselves," since humans already do understand this. He asked for "Mainstream Scientists," which opens up the whole "No True Scotsman" problem and opens up the whole issue to corruption because of stuff like the following:
See you're missing the big picture. It doesn't matter if this is factually correct, what matters is that the big energy companies don't want it to happen, so they'll do as they always do and bribe the right people and spend their political capital so that all that scary alien tech is taken out of the market. If the government worked on facts and common sense, we wouldn't be where we are today.
And we have the issue we have with Climate Change now, where some rich, self interested people try to muddy the waters by picking and choosing what scientists to listen to, and trying to only let those ones voice matter.
To use FDA and medicine analogy. Let's say there's a new drug being peddled in Kongo. Red Cross and other international organizations report that it cures AIDS in 100% cases. At first, nothing is known about how it's made or how it works. For all chemical analysis it's a piece of red sugar. Then, it's discovered that the medicine is a blood of virgin black she-goat obtained under a fool moon with an obsidian knife (but it only works if people from one specific tribe do it). At which point do you think it'll become FDA approved?
Um, what? That is terrible reasoning, and an even worse analogy. This would not be some newly discovered tribe in the Congo, a better example would OL found a book of Eastern Medicine that included a "Increase your Stamina and Sexual Potency" Regimen, that
actually worked if you followed all the steps, and wanted to introduce this to the US, because increased Stamina makes people more productive and feel better in their everyday life. Now this regimen is used by multiple countries such as China, Korea, Japan, etc. many of the Asian countries, and has been around for over a thousand years. People who have been there (Green Lanterns) or are from there (Thanagarians) have heard about it, and it is commonly used overseas. OL is disappointed that Red Bull, 5-Hour Energy, and the rest of Big Caffeine and the Ginkgo Biloba Consortium™ just sitting on their Laurels and not making any
new stamina advances, just slightly better ways to concentrate caffeine, and want to light a fire under their butt.
You don't need to make everyone understand it to prove it works, just measure the results and apply statistics. Which is how medicine companies actually get stuff certified. How it works matter a lot less. Which is why there are medicines on the market today that we do NOT know how they work, and are just making educated guesses from observable data. There is no reason not to do the same thing with this technology, because the alternative is pretending the reality of this being proven technology in use by the wider universe for longer then we have been a nation is somehow irrelevant.
also why include, "
but it only works if people from one specific tribe do it," at all? One of the nice things about science is the concept of reproducibility. Someone publishes a methodology, and you can do the same thing and get the same result. You have a blueprint, and following it gets you a power generator, just like it says. You do not need to understand the underlying principles to operate it and make it work. This is true for paper airplanes and kites, as well as the computers and smart phones we use everyday. You know the specific inner workings about how they operate (Electronics and programming and stuff) as you would this newfangled Bleed power generation technology.
Why would they? As long as their competitors get the same cost it won't change much for them. And if that was how it worked nuclear would be a lot more prevalent right now.
Because the electricity is a cost they are paying for now. If energy becomes cheaper the difference in the costs they are paying will become profit. And profit they would, by the simple method of lowering costs of the finished product to reflect lower energy costs, but not actually as much as the actual energy savings.
