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Re: Super tech effects on the world at large. Back to the actual subject of the thread, one option could be to have the aliens themselves looking to eradicate the cultural contamination. They have a Prime Directive and their interpretation of it is that they need to hunt down all the missing technology and anyone who learned from it, and remove them.

Re: Supergirl (Cir-El) Why would Clark name his daughter Cyril?

Re: "Open-Source" superhero names Rampage is the name of unimportant DC hero and an unimportant Marvel villain.

Re: Superheroes in Real Life It tends to refute the idea that should there be a sudden outbreak of people actually having superpowers, that you wouldn't see costumes along with it. Some times realism isn't realistic.

Re: Super tech effects on the world at large.

Re: Super tech effects on the world at large. Well all Reed did was sell something to someone who in a sane world would put it on the market. He was merely cynically musing that they probably wouldn't. As far as restricting the spread of supertechnology approachs I have taken included making it be dependant on room-temperature superconductors that were not producible by Earth technology (but were producible by a mutant called "Valence"), or having it be dependant on actual alien technology like power cells or focusing elements. In this case however the tech is being restrained, at least temporarily by it all being in the hands of small-minded covert agencies who by their nature are limited to regarding it as a stick to use on each other.

Re: Airlocks are for losers

Re: Super tech effects on the world at large.

Re: Super tech effects on the world at large. Realistically man-portable weapons-systems are not going to be the first applications of fundamentally new technology. You can expect to see large war machines first. Bolos, Battlemechs, whatever.

Re: Time Travel Wish List? Periclean Athens, Victorian London and Cretaceous North America,

Re: Airlocks are for losers Except you still have to contain enough actual air to support an intelligent organism. A hollow human sized organism would sacrifice too much function for that to be possible.

Re: Airlocks are for losers Only if you are solid and compact. If you are hollow or spread out that doesn't apply.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Next: Gladiator

Re: Elementary, My Dear Watson

Re: Hard Science Help

Re: Hard Science Help If it is, then you can't hit lightspeed.

Re: Deathstroke

Re: Hard Science Help

Re: Hard Science Help That's what the physicists tell me. They're all mad, though. Completely barmy.

Re: Substituting Realities

Re: Substituting Realities They have that many? And wouldn't there be a sexual imbalance?

Re: How Fast Do Rogue Planets Move? If you actually have a species of people who decide to move their planet to deal with a biocontrol problem, then obviously they can move their planet as fast as you want them to.

Re: Space 1999 aka Space 2099

Re: Airlocks are for losers I shouldn't worry about it. It's an easily solved problem (Fins! You can make them look like wings and be doubly cool!) and won't be significant unless you actually get hours of endurance in space somehow.

Re: Substituting Realities Although your spoiler protection seems a bit futile to me: