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Old 03-17-2010, 07:48 PM   #31
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What I find interesting is the divergence between science and science fiction. Look how many stories are about exploration of space. Build ship and go find out what's out there.

Today, we have the capability to find out (but it would cost billions and billions of dollars) just what is out there. With adaptive optics and computer technology, the former didn't even exist in 1980 (see Jim Baen's Destinies Vol 3 No 2 article Looking About in Space. We could (with enough money) build a 10 Kilometer adaptive telescope and/or an even bigger distributied telescope, that would let us spot Earth size planets all the way to the core (dust willing) and see a disk out to 14 light years. And do it right here on earth, with people knocking off at quitting time and going home to the family...

We aren't going to have much exploration stories in reality, we'll have done it by remote control....
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Old 03-18-2010, 02:15 PM   #32
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And that is the stupidest thing ever told (and told, and told, and told) to aspiring writers. Joe Haldeman, coincidentally, had the best response to that piece of foolishness...
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As for 'writing what we know'... if we all did that, no sf or fantasy stories would be written.
The stupidest part about that particular "write what you know" message is that it came from two imagined space travelers on an imagined space ship in an imagined solar system trying to prove an imagined theory about imagined aliens!

I am shocked that a group of writers that have never been in space, yet were writing a "space show," somehow felt that message needed delivering, even though they were doing exactly the opposite of that message!

TNG and beyond bought into the "Political Correctness" ideology IMHO, and I firmly believe "write what you know" stems from that ideology. So while it's a blaring contradiction, it makes a kind of perverted sense how it ended up in the show.

I love Star Trek, some of my favorite episodes had messages that I did not agree with. I am happy to say, however, that this was a crappy message in a similarly crappy episode!

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