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You raise some interesting points here that I had not previously considered with respect to flight/submarines vs. land vehicles/boats. That third dimension must
by eshack94 5y ago
You raise some interesting points here that I had not previously considered with respect to flight/submarines vs. land vehicles/boats. That third dimension must introduce a lot of cognitive load, even before conflict of other vessels/aircraft enter the scene.
- jabbany 5y agoThere's some sci-fi (that I cannot remember off the top of my head) that actually uses this as a plot point. I may be misremembering, but the idea is there's a special race of humans who have continued to evolve living in low gravity (space) environment, and the terrestrial human (those living on planets) governments would hire them as space mercenaries because they're at a huge advantage when it comes to 3d combat compared to training some terrestrial guy.
- forgetbook 5y agoEnder's game; maybe not what you're referring to (based on your description), and also uses 3d navigation as a plot point ('The enemy is down')
- at_a_remove 5y agoThis was a limitation of Khan in the second Star Trek film. There is a trilogy of books written covering Khan's life and it very subtly shows why Khan has this difficulty, but never points at it and shouts.
- usefulcat 5y agoI had always thought of that line as metaphorical (“two dimensional thinking”), but that’s a very interesting idea, and fits well with the final battle that immediately follows it.
- hedgewitch 5y agoYou don't mean The Expanse, do you?