I love old sci-fi
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Ok, maybe I should have said single trips. Multi year expeditions involved many stops, a trip to Mars would be non stop.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That is a fair point. There are still examples of multi-year expeditions without any stops for resupply, such as antarctic expeditions of the early 1900's, but they are a lot fewer; and many of those didn't turn out too great.
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That is a fair point. There are still examples of multi-year expeditions without any stops for resupply, such as antarctic expeditions of the early 1900's, but they are a lot fewer; and many of those didn't turn out too great.
I suppose early antartic expeditions would be a decent comparison point, an exceedingly dangerous and long journey when people already know they almost certainly won't find anything 'nice' there. I suppose we know more about Mars now than they did in the antarctic expeditions knew in advance, but I think they had the general idea of what they could possibly find as being grim enough to be doubtful of it being worth it.
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Are there any particularly good sci-fi novels with wild and imaginative ideas? I love trying to visualize and recreate the scenes in my mind after reading a novel.
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Realistically speaking I’d rewrite those numbers to 202003 (in accordance to Gregorian calendar)
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For tasks your phone and 50 MB/s would be totally sufficient for.
...because of the building-sized computers.
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Are there any particularly good sci-fi novels with wild and imaginative ideas? I love trying to visualize and recreate the scenes in my mind after reading a novel.
No please don't.
There's nothing inherently wrong with enjoying fiction in this mode, but doing that to old scifi without trying to figure out the moral valence of shit/editorial position of the writer is kind of how we got here.
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You are absolutely correct that is a major theme, especially in the Foundation books. To be fair, Asimov also buried that point in ponderous prose and scattered it across centuries of book-time.
I think Goyer did the best one could do in adapting Foundation to visual media. He had to invent and re-imagine a lot in order to give continuity and cohesion to a sprawling story. If he had stayed more true to the books, it would have flopped instantly.
I ain't gonna lie. I'm not entirely sure this answer didn't come from an LLM.
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I ain't gonna lie. I'm not entirely sure this answer didn't come from an LLM.
Yeah, that’s the way I write. It’s the other way around though. LLM are trained on a lot of academic writing.
So I guess, LLM sound like me?
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In fairness to the Sci-Fi writers, we've launched so many probes into deep space since then.
We've sent satellites to Jupiter and diving bells below the clouds of Venus. We've retrieved soil from Mars and sent signals from beyond the Ort Cloud. We've recorded Gravity Waves and captured light off the edge of Black Holes and recorded the touch of Neutrinos.
We don't have six guys drinking coffee and staring out a window overlooking the moon of Titan. But that is largely because our signaling and robotics has made automated exploration more practical than manned missions.
And also because SciFi writers of the 1950s didn't understand how much radiation humans would need to shield themselves against once they left the Earth's magnetosphere.
sent signals from beyond the Ort Cloud
I thought "It will take about 300 years for Voyager 1 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it." https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17046
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sent signals from beyond the Ort Cloud
I thought "It will take about 300 years for Voyager 1 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it." https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17046
Ah, my mistake. I know it got outside the Voyager 2 got to the interstellar medium. Thought that was beyond the Ort Cloud.
