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One of the problems I have with the vast majority of sci-fi is there is fuck all even remotely related to science in it, and I do not *just* mean spacecraft performing aerodynamic maneouvers in a vacuum, that is the fucking least of it.

Sure, there is much we do not know, and can barely dream about, but one thing is absolutely guaranteed to be a fucking fact, any race capable of interstellar travel will have an energy budget that dwarfs every nation on the planet in 2017 put together, just as the USA in the 60’s with the Apollo programme, the energy expenditure to go to the moon and back was more than most (as in the majority) other nations on the planet at that time could do.

Having arrived at the alien planet, all sorts of shit then goes wrong, and suddenly the arriving spacemen have craft and equipment relegated to the status of an RV and maybe an APC or two, that’s it.

The civilisation level power generation and technology just disappeared up the writers ass so they could tell a story.

I’m kind of OK with that, but the story itself and the writing has to be fucking excellent, and it rarely is…. yes it’s an interstellar civ but planetside there are food riots, it’s a basic foxes and rabbits life simulation but you make the rabbits breed like rabbits, and immortal… so it ain’t a foxes and rabbits simulation any more, no matter how often you claim it is so.

The energy budgets required for interstellar travel mean that interstellar trade is a non starter, it does not matter what it costs in energy and time to make it locally, it is going to be cheaper and faster than any possible interstellar option, unless you again have some magical solar system with no elements anywhere with an atomic mass greater that 8, and why would you go there, when spectral lines in stars will tell you if there is anything heavier than iron to be had.

Data is a different matter, it may be the case that interstellar sneakernet has more bandwidth than interstellar laser comms, but again said data isn’t going to be the latest replicator designs for the latest flying car.

land anything 1000 tons or more on the victim planet complete with an intact fusion power plant, an intact set of data plans, and even a couple of basic replicator / assemblers, and a handful or work robots, and you have the basis for a colony, and there will be fuck all the local inhabitants can do about it.

because another staple of modern sci fi is the space marines, well, half of them are fucking dykes, but they all suffer some sort of ammo shortage or ballistic penetration shortage, so that the erstwhile alien rabbits can overcome them by sheer weight of numbers.

Fusion power + masers will kill anything biological in line of sight, and shift to RF and it works in ground penetration too, because all life is chemical and the most energetic chemical reactions possible don’t stand a chance when pitted against a fusion pile in a battle of wills.

Yes, it is entirely possible that some small proportion of the crew that lands will come unstuck and get injured or killed by something, but the majority that remain will just sterilise everything for 100 km around.

Which brings us to the next staple, the unexpected flood / volcano / storm / etc.

So these guys complete an interstellar voyage, go into orbit around the target planet, take a day or three to produce satellite maps accurate to a few CM and ground radar and IR and everything else, and suddenly they get surprised by some topological mystery, don’t fucking think so..

The laws of physics in the alien solar system are going to be exactly the same as the laws of physics in their home solar system, and they are arriving with civilisation level energy budgets and tech.

The only time it gets interesting is when one interstellar race arrives in a solar system already inhabited by another alien race, now you have two lots of people each of whom has an energy budget and capability to drop rocks on the planet until it turns into a snowball.

And since they are both interstellar races there is no element that can only be gotten on the planet, so they do not need it for anything except a colony, they do not need it to survive.

So now you have the possibility of interstellar war, but again, it won’t be like anything in any of the books, it will be slow and protracted and at best a an expanding stern chase outwards through star systems, like bacteria growing outwards in a ring in a petri dish.

Nor do I go for the SF that has humans millions of years into the future that are unaltered from humans today, I reckon 10,000 years is enough to produce enough changes that todays humans will be seen as cavemen, and as sexually attractive to boot.

nor do I go for the SF that has robot overlords trying to wipe out their progenitors, rogue AI and mechs wiping the galaxy of nasty biologicals, it doesn’t make any kind of logical sense.

it doesn’t make any sense because it defies fundamental principles like physical laws and entropy, either these are universal and reign supreme or they do not, and they do, which means that at least here on earth, because that is all we can observe, all life is based on DNA and therefore all life must play within the rules and sandbox that DNA imposes, ergo DNA is king, not homo sapiens.

Even a homo sapien that can manipulate DNA still cannot change the fundamental workings of DNA, so you probably could breed a human being with the eyes of an eagle and the blood of a crocodile, but they might well end up dying of cancer by the age of 10, or be unable to eat grain, or be unable to tolerate sub zero climates, because DNA still makes the rules.

It’s exactly the same as engineers being unable to make a copper rocket nozzle, it doesn’t matter how good you are at engineering, you can’t change the fundamental principles, and doped silicon wafers are NOT an example of an exception, they are an example of proof, but we are still limited to the basic building block set of elements.

Ah yes, impervium armour for our spaceships and space marines, don’t fucking think so.

Sure, there are advances to me made, and many of them, so maybe when we can engineer materials at the nano scale so you can actually wrap a polymer inside a carbon nanotube of significant physical length you get amazing new shit, but chances are a splash of flourine and it will still disintegrate…

In the year 3576 on planet zork, acetylene (H – 1 bond – C – 3 bonds – C – 1 bond – H) will still burn energetically when the energy in those 3 carbon-carbon bonds are released in the presence of oxygen.

Ain’t gonna change.

Nano goop has the same fucking problems, where does the fucking energy come from, and where does it go… even if you can nano assemble and dissemble and repair shit, you are either going to do it so slowly in makes a 2017 3d printer look fucking fast, or it is going to look like a nuclear pile and you’ll get a suntan 10 feet away, you sure as shit won’t be injecting it into a space marine to heal them, or to create a cup of earl grey.

the star trek replicator ALONE renders every single other thing about the enterprise pointless, for it to work as advertised and not either take 10,000 years to make one cup of tea, or turn into a 20 giagton explosion, you need absolute real time mass <> energy conversion, and if you have that you make room temperature gigawatt fusion look like a warm patch of piss on the ground.

just replicate and lob a kilo of neutronium at 10 km/sec at anything you want to utterly destroy, and make sure you are a *long* way away from the target, far from being space marine starship armour, it would make, quite literally, the most powerful nuclear explosion possible, anywhere in the universe.

You could sit in the oort cloud and literally destroy a star and therefore an entire solar system… just start pumping neutronium nuggets inwards, it’s only a matter of time.