Proginoskes Wrote:Yeah, I'm gonna side with Mal and say that the only reason we haven't seen the Really Real World do much with Handwavium is that nobody's written about the greening of the Sahara, or carbon-capture systems that use biomodded plants, or the slow-but-rigorous developments in 'Daneside Handwavium materials science. As important and satisfying as those things are (which is why 'Daneside has focused on them), they aren't exciting the way Space is.Another reason would include the "dirtside boskonians" who like things as they are and that a green Sahara would cut into their powerbase.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll