Today I started thinking about the scifi trope about hyperspace needing sentient beings, not machines, to be able to fly a ship through there.
Maybe it’s just that the ’AIs’ are LLM derivatives, rehashing what has been done before, but the hyperspace is too varied and for travel novel solutions are needed (maybe especially on new or less-travelled routes). You could use a computer to navigate, but are you willing to take the risk?
#Writephant 2026.0504 — A2. Do you have a favorite work that is either set in space or a celestial body that isn’t Earth?
Plenty. Not only do I write SF, I read it. However, let's stick to media.
I love Firefly. From beginning to end, it was weirdly interesting and fun, with a pure demonstration of how to lampshade facts you really don't want to have to explain. I'm often offended when obvious science is gotten wrong, but the characters and plot lines had their own consistent logic and I went with the quirkiness.
I also loved the last series version of Battlestar Galactica, except for the very last episode. They made a think about FTL rules, and I felt they got the military milieu exceptionally well, with the robotics explained well enough to make it all consistent and believable—except for the very end where the story went so far off the rails, it launched the locomotive directly to high orbit. Otherwise, good SF, showing how technology affects humans.
I'll give a shout out to Babylon 5 for mixing idealism and multiculturalism in a way much better than most TV SF ever did.
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Two things I've always thought about the Fermi Paradox
1) We don't know what technology They use, so it's just guesswork as to what we're looking for. A bit presumptuous to write off the whole Universe as empty.
2) The Universe is BIG and we're barely explored it yet, we've only been listening for radio for about a 100 Earth years, that's nothing in this big old universe. And who wants to communicate at the Speed of Light?
I remember watching this 10 years ago when #FTL came out
https://youtu.be/RVHw5Hcat9s
I think I was subscribed to Doormonster ten years ago. But then unsubscribed at some point and then resubscribed last year when she started making those great video essays (check recent videos)
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'We have been lurking in cloaked ships out by Jupiter for approximately seventy five earth years, watching.'
That long huh?
'Yes. We felt that you would... should be able to figure your problems out and come together as a species. Then we would make oursleves known and give you #fusion, #hoverboards and #FTL travel.'
Ah, like the #PrimeDirective from #StarTrek.
'Yes.'
So what changed, why now?
'This'
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