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Arthur C Clarke's 'The Light of Other Days'. About creating wormholes, but realizing that they could turn them into watching any point of time in the past. The moment when the inventor stands up and declares to the room with only the other inventor there 'Hah, look you bastards of the future, I INVENTED THIS' or words to that effect. The next line was something like 'The billions of billions of watchers watched on in silence'. I could be over remembering the impact of this, but man it was cool. Then how society changed. If anyone can see everyone's past, there was no point lying, no need for clothes as you could watch that person when in the shower, etc. Rama Series Most of it in general. But one sticks out is the reason for the different heights for the frozen ocean borders, one much much taller than the other. Revealed books later. Farscape How Scorpius is one of the best written bad guys ever imo, and how he will align with anyone to get his main mission. Also how Crichton' mentally breaks down a few time in the series, something the hero usually never does. Homeworld 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrW4jkQdmjI All of it really. But you never saw your own race in the original Homeworld 1 game videos, only that you were vaguely humanoid. The only footage I can remember is when you capture a Taidan pilot, who is human. I played the poo poo out of the game back then, was on forums and such, and someone pointed this out, that you could have been an alien race. Aliens good guys, humans bad. Blew my mind back then. They retconned that in HW2 and made them humans then, boo. Transmetropolitan How TV and society will just become full on porn and violence. Seasame Street has full on sex, gore laden cartoons, that there are no taboos or such on them. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 00:19 on May 22, 2021 |
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Polaron posted:Also, I'm pretty sure you see Karan Sjet in the very first game and she's recognizably human. It's all moot anyway thanks to Deserts of Kharak, of course, but still. You do, at the start and at the end:   They reworked the intro/end to make her definite human in the remastered ones. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 18:16 on May 22, 2021 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:I got thinking about this today but how would people raised in space develop a sense of direction? Are there any bits of sci-fi that talk about this concept? The ear helps us with balance, there are the semi-circular canals of your inner ears. These canals are lined with tiny hairs and filled with liquid. When you move, the fluid bends the hairs, and they tell your brain what's happening. With gravity I would assume we learn '2D' movements (as our up and down directions are sort of fixed) as babies exploring and so learning what's 'natural'. In space, maybe babies will find it easier to do '3D' movements, up and down are now totally relative to everything else. So they will learn to just move intuitively, and be natural for them. There's just going to be more head injuries in the beginning as lil' Buzz faceplants on every surface in the ship. So any sense of direction will be 'wherever I am facing at right now'. Then again Im talking bollocks. Its 3am
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