Weird only insofar as the conditioning you’ve had in living in standard Earth gravity.kimbyd said:So if you're throwing a ball "up" in a rotating spacecraft , it'd move in a weird arc.
Our current state of technology is a series of realized ‘fiction.’sophiecentaur said:Is it really worth introducing Sci-Fi ('Fiction') ideas into an Engineering problem? We might as well have a man with a magic wand on board to take us wherever we want.
And before quoting Arthur C Clarke, his ideas came from informed sources. The only real error in his fiction was the time scale for his events - very optimistic.
If you made two lists of SciFi ideas, with the fruitful ones in one list and the dead ends in the other, I think the dead ends would be in a huge majority. But that isn't a criticism of SciFi literature; a random bit of SciFi will be about as 'valuable' as any other bit of fiction.Digcoal said:Our current state of technology is a series of realized ‘fiction.’
And the cases where it is not are usually happy accidents followed by carefully digging into a “that was weird”. Such happy accidents are hard for sci-fi writers to predict.sophiecentaur said:Very often, it's Maths and concentrated thought that yield to advances in technology.