True, probably. But as a trope in fantasy movies and illustrations, it makes no sense. I've done a very physical job most of my working life, and got very fit, but I never looked anything like Conan. Years ago, taking a break from a physical job, I decided to lift a few weights a day, and piled on the muscle. Now I've given up my job due to parkinsons, I lift weights as much as I safely can to try to maintain some strength and fitness, and once again I'm more muscular than when I was carrying heavy stuff all day as a job. I maintain, you're not going to get a build like a movie barbarian travelling through the wilderness most days, eating what you can pick from plants and trees and what game you can kill. If you want to look that way, you have to train and eat specifically to look that way.
What leads you to this conclusion?
Sometimes you just want cool stuff in the story. Giant robot? Give 'em the fire axe.
It's not a conclusion, more a wry suggestion. But the experimentation with Quantum Teleportation- while fantastic and fascinating- still wouldn't convince me to throw myself into a current quantum teleporter with any expectation of coming out the other side!
Yes, indeed. I wouldn't chance it.
The film The Fly springs to mind.
Crime becomes unsolvable "I couldn't have done it as I was on the Moon at the time - oh wait!"
Nice fantasy but that’s a lot of rooms you’re going to be buying or renting - you're going need deep pockets. Where are these rooms situated - in purpose-built units divided into single dedicated rooms? That’s a lot of building someone’s going to need to do.
Star Gate: Atlantis used the idea of beaming torpedoes into enemy ships. It needed the enemy to not have effective shields though. (Star Trek Online does this too, and I think one of the Nu-Star Trek movies did it.)
Yep. And that’s how you do ‘em in... wait until they’ve had to do a good session of weights to maintain the “look”- and are too knackered to resist- a quick whack with an axe, job done! ( worked some years ago with a very nice chap who was a body builder, and boy he said sometimes he could barely move and could just be pushed over by his rather petite Wife, after a blasting session)
Yes- that’s always been a slight bugbear of mine with not only transporters, but time machines; just how do you look ahead to see there isn’t anything in the way of where you are going to arrive- the classic 1960 The Time Machine film, a case in point ( I do still love it tho’)... the machine stays put and luckily everything happens around it...highly unlikely over the best part of 800,000 years!
The advancements likely to exist over the next 100-200 years will be staggering. IMHO.
Only if our civilisation doesn't fall to the barbarians.
True. But I think that unlikely. I'm an optimist.
Owned, but not developed by barbarians.
Star Trek uses "sensors" that are sci-fi stuff to target transporters. It's what they mean when they say they have a "transporter lock". They targeted the destination with sensors.
