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The show also hand waived the invention of fusion in the 1980’s.
by BuyMyBitcoins 3y ago
The show also hand waived the invention of fusion in the 1980’s.
- ghaff 3y agoYeah, they sort of had a maximum timeline set by what they could reasonably do with some makeup for the cast and them not being unreasonably old for their roles. But telling the story they wanted probably required an unnatural rate of technology advance over that period of time.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoIt's interesting because there is broad agreement that we could have had fusion power if we had actually invested in it, which could have more plausibly happened if we were also investing in a space race (and so society was more science and engineering focused). In the show they claim that the invention of fusion was the product of one smart guy, which isn't how it would have gone, but the actual presence of fusion seems plausible to me.