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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Christopher Keelty  🏳️‍🌈‏ @keeltyc Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @ToccoTrevor and

      I used to be one of those Science Fiction vs Science Fantasy guys. Honestly it only works if your familiarity with the genre is limited. Once you take in the breadth of it, there's no clear place to draw the line, and the distinction is worthless.

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    2. Christopher Keelty  🏳️‍🌈‏ @keeltyc Apr 7
      Replying to @keeltyc @arthur_affect and

      There was a time, I think, when American media tried to draw a hard line. You'd have, like, Ben Bova and Asimov on one side, and George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry on the other. Mostly that was from about the 1970s through the 1990s, as far as I can tell.

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    3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 7
      Replying to @keeltyc @arthur_affect and

      The issue is really about whether the writers are interested in primarily the aesthetics or primarily the legit dynamics that can’t be “ported” elsewhere, between “hard” and “soft” sf. This is a highly subjective assessment.

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    6. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl Apr 7
      Replying to @mssilverstein @keeltyc and

      Eh. It uses Newtonian physics and is pretty dedicated to not being Aggressively Wrong and at least finding ways to be Interestingly Wrong Like, the fact that they explain G-forces not killing people and Trek and Wars never get into it at all makes a difference

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @BootlegGirl @mssilverstein and

      "Inertial dampeners" are one of the single most impossible things in Star Trek -- the most basic foundation of general relativity is inertia is a fundamental property of matter that cannot be "dampened" -- but they get a one-line mention so the story can just move forward

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and

      Can move forward without taking several weeks or months to accelerate and decelerate while moving at impulse to protect their crew and equipment from dangerous G-forces

      4 replies 2 retweets 14 likes
    9. Justin Melillo‏ @Cybren Apr 7
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and

      i'm not even sure why they need to mention them at all they could just say that a special property of warp is that the people subjectively don't feel like they're moving, it's already made up!

      2 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    10. Until We Can't‏ @fightuntil Apr 7
      Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect and

      Because they obsessivelyexplain everything. Somewhere in the inner workings of the transporter is a Heisenberg Compensator that deals with the problem that the uncertainty principle would make the transporter impossible. No joke.

      1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
      Replying to @fightuntil @Cybren and

      I've seen people propose trying to fix Star Trek's problems with plausibility by trying to pin them down to One Weird Thing instead of having all kinds of impossible tech Like, *just* give them warp drive, and have the principle of warp drive also drive the transporter

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and

          You have the ability to magically make wormholes, sometimes they're big ship-sized wormholes you can drive through, sometimes they're little person-sized ones you can sneak people through Everything else is mundane realistic tech

          3 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and

          The thing being, of course, this isn't actually a "realistic" setting -- any more than it'd be realistic to imagine our world as being exactly like the year 1750 with the one exception of having invented diesel engines, or radio transmitters

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        1. Until We Can't‏ @fightuntil Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and

          It's what I like about The Expanse series - if you spot them the Epstein drive (i.e. ultra-efficient propulsion) the rest is pretty realistic. And one of the main antagonists is scary precisely because it is not bound by the laws of physics the rest of the universe abides by.

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        1. Doug gerred‏ @dougered Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and

          Seems like the transporter is more likely that faster than light travel at this point.

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        1. Kenneth Blaney‏ @mrchapel0203 Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and

          This is broadly what they did in Mass Effect. The "Mass Effect" can change the mass of matter without changing other properties of it and so breaks enough of physics to plausibly allow for almost anything else.

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        1. Grand Moff Snarkin, The Funkular Fury‏ @N7IRL Apr 7
          Replying to @arthur_affect @fightuntil and

          Ships in Star Trek have been both to the edge of the galaxy and the center of it, and somehow the former was physics-breaking while the latter didn't involve intense radiation and gravity murdering them.

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