Yeah. Wouldn't that be like removing dark matter from the universe? Existence itself would unravel as the universe fell apart?
Why Spore Drive may not work in the future
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That is still destroying galaxy sized patch of mushrooms. Nope.
The network itself might just close itself to non-organic objects.
Or some accident prevents access, but doesn't destroy the underlying network.
Maybe kill the spore network, collapse the conduits?
Exactly what I'm expecting. Either destroy it or somehow inject something into the spore network making it "inert" and unusable. I think Ripper may be a part of that since he evidently has some connection to the sport network and can use it.
Not necessarily. They mentioned the mycelium network was microscopic. If it exists on a different dimension it might not be large at all, by other standards (the whole, cutting a small sheet of paper to make a loop you can walk through, kind of thing)
Also real-world mycellium is interesting, in that it requres individual fungi to touch and connect, where it then links them into a single lifeform. If the links were broken it would not distroy the individual fungi, just the links themselves.
The klingons will get the technology and Lorca will destroy the whole fungus network to protect the federation
Part of me is very amused that people question whether this is magic or science.
300 years ago, people would think that magical, flat, black devices that can take care of many of our needs (communication, entertainment, information, etc) would be ridiculous and completely implausible. They'd think the idea of splitting a microscopic thing that would then release a horrific and wonderful amount of energy is drastically insane and far-out kiddie fiction.
We have no idea what direction science will go in in the next 2-3 centuries.
At least DSC is trying to explore something that is extremely unique and interesting.
300 years ago, people would think that magical, flat, black devices that can take care of many of our needs (communication, entertainment, information, etc) would be ridiculous and completely implausible. They'd think the idea of splitting a microscopic thing that would then release a horrific and wonderful amount of energy is drastically insane and far-out kiddie fiction.
We have no idea what direction science will go in in the next 2-3 centuries.
At least DSC is trying to explore something that is extremely unique and interesting.
It will only make any sense at all if it is somehow destroyed. The Federation might abandon it due to ethics but I can't see any of the other powers having any issues with that.
This is not really true. 300 years ago we were were just wrapping our heads around Newton. Yes the technology of today would look like magic, but there was such a limited understanding of science back then, they simply had not yet contemplated these things.
Today we understand a lot of physics and we have an idea for what it might take to create such fanciful technology. 100 years ago we learned that you could not travel faster than life due to actual laws of physics. 50 years ago sci fi got around that by speculating that spacetime could be manipulated in some way to overcome that hard coded speed limit. A space faring civilization that can move from system to system in a reasonable time might not be technologically feasible at all, however we have some ideas about how to get there, but they are highly speculative and not very likely to work or to be practical. There are some areas that may still lead to new physics but we are in a much different place than not even knowing what an electron is.
As a culture we now see lots of issues as problems to solve with technology and we have dedicated lots of resources towards solving them. They didn't have decades long technology roadmaps in 1717. We have them now for just about everything. It's not pure clairvoyance, but we would be a lot less surprised by human life in 300 years than those 300 years ago would be flabbergasted by this. I imagine that we would be more surprised by the lack of magic in the technology that exists 300 years in the future.