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It’s also the only credible answer to the Fermi paradox. Any civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel is advanced enough to generate all of their de
by mkmk 4y ago
It’s also the only credible answer to the Fermi paradox. Any civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel is advanced enough to generate all of their desires at home.
- mjklin 4y ago“Computer: Tea, Earl Grey” So then why did Star Trek happen if they had replicators?
- dsfyu404ed 4y ago>So then why did Star Trek happen if they had replicators? Because when you have everything you poke around for fun. Kind of like how science was pushed along by bored aristocrats doing it as a hobby for centuries.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoSure -- like the way people participate in Renaissance fairs, or spend their spare time weaving cloth or making candles by hand.
- danso 4y agoReplicators seem to have developed well after — and probably as a result of — warp travel
- yamtaddle 4y agoBasically nothing in Star Trek makes any sense, as far as the social consequences of the setting. The writers are constantly having to struggle with it. You've got the original series' pretty strong but apparently-accidental dystopic vibes, constant trouble with sorting out how the whole "the Federation doesn't have money" thing works[0], holodecks only rarely having the kind of effects everyone knows they would, and so on. [0] Some major Tenacious D "City Hall" vibes with how well that part of the setting works. "Third decree: No more rich people, and poor people. From now on we will all be the same! Umm... I don't know, I gotta think about that...."
- lgl 4y agoThat's a nice tangent there, but for that to be a credible answer we would have to assume that any and all advanced civilizations would not want to try interstellar travel. That's the thing with this paradox, it would theoretically only need one to diverge from the norm to see it's effects. Which I believe is also why most great filter candidates are usually not things that a species would do by choice, but instead an accidental, inevitable or inherent feature of the universe/existence.
- DocTomoe 4y agoAka. "The holodeck is the last invention of a civilization."
- tomjen3 4y agoAny interstellar organisation would communicate with FTL tech.
- Ekaros 4y agoAnd simulate interstellar expansion for those who want it... Just plug them in machine and have AI generate them the trip or experience.
- booleandilemma 4y agoAnd if that's true the only ones that are traveling through interstellar space are going to be really messed up in some way.