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Old 01-11-2012, 01:38 PM   #35
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
Like FTL travel in most cases.
I've seen much serious theory and discussion of an FTL drive, its components and their overall operation, especially in books, and on Trek... but no similar discussion of how gravity generation works. Trek has avoided it like the plague.

But yes, there are a number of sci-fi movies and shows that just take for granted that FTL works: Just showing a complex-looking piece of machinery is enough to satisfy the audience (they should call that the "flux capacitor trope").
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