What is the most amazing technological or science concept you ever saw in sci-fi?
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Nanomeds capable of making everyone immortal, or transdimensional engineering to enable us to handle the resultant population explosion.
It's basically a MacGuffin.
It's just not important how the dream sharing works. It only matters that it does, not how.
Besides, trying to actually explain the details of the process would just slow the film down and bore the viewers.
The Star Trek movie where they Save the Whales.
How Dr. McCoy waves the cigarette lighter thing over the woman in the hospital hallway and cures her of whichever disease she had.(diabetes or cancer)
How Dr. McCoy waves the cigarette lighter thing over the woman in the hospital hallway and cures her of whichever disease she had.(diabetes or cancer)
Missing a kidney. He gave her a pill.
For real!!!?????
Wow!
That weirds me out!
I'm missing a kidney!
Holy frijoles !
I didn't know that
Where is Dr. McCoy???????
TARDIS - Doctor Who
Thank you. I was about to post how not a single reply just said TARDIS?
I disagree. Sure you don't want to bog down in the explanations. Also since it's fictional, you can't get too detailed. But to increase the verisimilitude, the creators have to be able to have at least some basic answers at the ready , especially since the questions I asked are very close to have a need to answer to understand the plot
MacGuffin's, on the other hand, are a different thing entirely,.. and most of THOSE have explanations that help verisimilitude
Passengers
It wasn't any specific technology, because it all had been mostly shown before, but the total presentation. Everything looked gorgeous!
It wasn't any specific technology, because it all had been mostly shown before, but the total presentation. Everything looked gorgeous!
Of course there are major plot holes:
- Not being able to put passengers/crew back into hibernation
- Ship system failure not waking crew
- Bringing passengers out of hibernation a couple of months before arrival at destination. But needed that MacGuffin to explain the fancy ship and all the amenities.
technological -- Larry Niven's Ringworld. A structure as big as Earth's orbit, a million miles wide, with mountains a thousand miles high on either side to keep the atmosphere in. Surface area of a million Earths. Spin it to simulate gravity. Sculpt the surface with whatever features you want. Incredible. (Though it requires incredibly strong materials to make it.)
scientific -- My mind was blown by the concept that Jupiter's core might be an enormous diamond (though it's probably not). Presented in Arthur C. Clarke's 2061.
scientific -- My mind was blown by the concept that Jupiter's core might be an enormous diamond (though it's probably not). Presented in Arthur C. Clarke's 2061.
The dream sharing technology in Inception is BS. But then, I'm pretty sure that the entirety of the movie is a dream anyway, so I don't sweat it. 
Note to all: Do not, under any circumstances, go looking for Stallone's explanation about the seashells.
Just. Don't.
(me, I think that they simply generate a sonic field that cleans you out. Kind of like Trek's sonic showers.)
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Gray goo. Horrifying.
Amazing - the TARDIS on Doctor Who when I was a young child.
Disturbing - the Cybermen, also on Doctor Who, scared the bejesus out of me. The Borg are pussies in comparison. However, like the Borg, over time and especially recently, the Cybermen became a bit crap.
Also, almost anything Vernor Vinge comes up with.
Disturbing - the Cybermen, also on Doctor Who, scared the bejesus out of me. The Borg are pussies in comparison. However, like the Borg, over time and especially recently, the Cybermen became a bit crap.
Also, almost anything Vernor Vinge comes up with.
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