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We’re gonna get transparent metal before the easy parts like to stop killing each other. Roll on Star Trek
TBF in the Star Trek universe they also do get transparent aluminum earlier than stopping the wars.
According to Star Trek lore, WW3 will begin in 3 years, and last for 27 years.
Buckle up.
Can we not? Please?
Don't worry! WW3 will be preceeded by the Bell Riots, a collection of revolts by people treated inhumanely and stuck in slums. It will be a fun little distraction before the fireworks. It's even got it's own count down now!
I want science fiction to remain fiction.
Edit: Aside from the cool stuff, that's fine, I'll have some of that.
Well you're getting transparent aluminium, what are you complaining about?!
And if I’m being honest if the end game is Star Trek I’m fine with the stuff in between. It beats the end game being Warhammer 40k.
Warhammer is for the tabletop. Anything more is a living nightmare.
Warhammer 40k has its peak Utopian period, after which machines like Data nearly destroy humanity and…
Well it’s a lot to write out.
In short we could still be on the 40k timeline.
Agreed. Though it has crossed my mind that the in universe explanation for why the Federation is so enlightened and willing to care for all of its citizens because of the horrors Earth went through.
But yeah, definitely would like to avoid WW3/the Bell Riots.
Some say WW3 is cool tho
Found Raytheon's lemmy account.
its* own countdown
As long as we kill anyone with the last name of "Green", we should be fine.
That would be the hydrogen bomb. If we created a sizeable MIRV of cobalt bombs and pointed them at Jerusalem on an automated system that tracked the rate of violent death, suddenly all the religious types would get really polite.
(Obviously this is a supervillain example. we're considering alternative vectors towards peace and humanitarian aid in the holy land before holding it hostage. We're also running out of saner ideas.)
(Also, the Soviet Union did consider a doomsday device a la Dr. Strangelove as a cold war nuclear deterrent before the politburo decided it would never authorize a retalitory strike for sake of the species and moved on to Мирное сосуществование. Nearly eighty years without a nuclear war shows us even religious fanatics and madmen don't want to extinct the human species. Their heart's not in it.)
The problem is, smaller interests can't get the bomb yet. It takes too much complex industry to make. As a result, we still have huge swaths of powerless population to be bullied, enslaved and exploited.
Once the superweapon made from fir wood, Indian ocean tuna, granite and parafin becomes public we'll have to negotiate with even the smallest faction and arrange for the welfare and contentment of everyone... that is if we survive the intermediary tensions. Our plutocrats may choose extinction over giving up their power.
Don't worry, biological weapons get easier to make every day!
In that respect, I suppose it's more on the Star Wars track, where "transparisteel" is used on the TIE fighter windows.
Almost all glass is transparent metall...