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SciFi movies and pathetic misconceptions of tech failing for the story line.

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tszaboo:

--- Quote from: David Hess on April 10, 2023, 11:49:00 am ---This discussion reminds me of something I wondered about in the movie Aliens.  Why did the "Colonial Marines" exist and why were they armed the way they were, including nuclear weapons?  What threat justified their existence?  Were they regularly fighting other aliens or humans?

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Nukes are like firecrackers when it comes to sci-fi. When you have ships that can do interplanetary missions, they have energy levels that can destroy planets just by accelerating rocks towards them. Even in the expanse (which is low tech compared to alien), the small corvette class ship (looks up the number) could output 5 TW power constantly. Use it to accelerate something for a day, and the kinetic energy of that is now more than any nuclear bomb ever built.
And that's just a small 5 man ship, which doesn't even have FTL.

RoGeorge:
Would  be enough to drop a rod of solid metal from the orbit, without any explosives heads, and you'll get the equivalent of a nuke:

AndyBeez:
Point-of-order regarding Star Wars. Why did The Empire need to build the Death Star to destroy a planet when, having already mastered faster than light hyperspace travel, their technology horizon is so advanced, they can vaporise a planet in milliseconds using a transportable black hole? Plus, this civilisation makes five parsecs in two days, so why are they still shooting at each other point-blank with blasters? Something's not right in that galaxy :-//

BrianHG:

--- Quote from: AndyBeez on April 12, 2023, 08:12:15 pm ---Point-of-order regarding Star Wars. Why did The Empire need to build the Death Star to destroy a planet when, having already mastered faster than light hyperspace travel, their technology horizon is so advanced, they can vaporise a planet in milliseconds using a transportable black hole? Plus, this civilisation makes five parsecs in two days, so why are they still shooting at each other point-blank with blasters? Something's not right in that galaxy :-//

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Because ---  well, just watch this and have a laugh:

CatalinaWOW:

--- Quote from: AndyBeez on April 12, 2023, 08:12:15 pm ---Point-of-order regarding Star Wars. Why did The Empire need to build the Death Star to destroy a planet when, having already mastered faster than light hyperspace travel, their technology horizon is so advanced, they can vaporise a planet in milliseconds using a transportable black hole? Plus, this civilisation makes five parsecs in two days, so why are they still shooting at each other point-blank with blasters? Something's not right in that galaxy :-//

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This doesn't seem so far fetched to me.  Your argument applied to today's world would be:

We have the technology to fly between continents in hours.  Why does anyone need aircraft carriers when they can just transport nukes.  And why are people from the same civilization shooting at each other with rifles and pistols.

The peak technology of an era is never applied uniformly.  Sometimes because of cost, sometime because of transportability, and often just politics and sapient nature.

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