9 Scientific Breakthroughs That Killed Science Fiction Subge

[Halb]

9 Scientific Breakthroughs That Killed Science Fiction Subgenres....apparently.

http://io9.com/9-scientific-breakthroughs-that-kil...

[VinceFox]

love IO9, one of my dailies.

[Derek Smith]

Once scifi writers found Mars inhospitable, they moved to other planets: Legacy of Heorot is very much in the Martian soap opera. Carter-style fantasy would not appear to have changed.

[Eric Mc]

There has been a whole raft of science fiction novels about the "modern" Mars.

[Halmyre]

I don't think the counting problem in Jurassic Park was memory related, it was just sloppy programming.

[hairykrishna]

Halmyre said:

I don't think the counting problem in Jurassic Park was memory related, it was just sloppy programming.

Agreed. It had nothing to do with memory saving, it was just a classic programming error.

The whole list's a bit crap.

[Simpo Two]

At least warp speed and transporters are still 'on'

[Furberger]

Interesting one number 6. Plenty of people in the world without food, but more of an infrastructure problem I suppose.

[Guvernator]

Simpo Two said:

At least warp speed and transporters are still 'on'

With what we have learnt about physics, I thought those had been discounted too? I certainly thought faster than light travel was now deemed to be a big no no which is quite depressing when you think about it as it effectively means we are stuck in our own solar system and won't be gallivanting around the stars any time soon.

[Halb]

I don't think you can discount anything. We only know as much as we know, I hope that the next century will be full of amazing things as the last one was.

[Catatafish]

Guvernator said:

Simpo Two said:

At least warp speed and transporters are still 'on'

With what we have learnt about physics, I thought those had been discounted too? I certainly thought faster than light travel was now deemed to be a big no no which is quite depressing when you think about it as it effectively means we are stuck in our own solar system and won't be gallivanting around the stars any time soon.

One form of theoretical FTL is to warp space around you, so you never actually move, space moves around you and doesn't violate relativity. Nasa have this on their books as an actual project...

[Flibble]

Catatafish said:

One form of theoretical FTL is to warp space around you, so you never actually move, space moves around you and doesn't violate relativity. Nasa have this on their books as an actual project...

Or on a similar note, generate wormholes on demand and fly through them.