Their was an episode on Stargate, one of the scientists was demonstrating a laser. The laser broke and smoke came pouring out of it. Everyone in the University auditorium got up and left. The scientist sighed and sat down dejected. The main character asked him why it broke. Their starships fire these lasers all the time. The scientist said nonchalantly. Oh, yeah it was supposed to break down. The other character asks why? In order to prepare society for the future you have to let them see glimpses of it.
So much for fiction. I've dealt with lasers in real life. A failed demonstration is never on the plan. Weapon-level lasers were a known fact in development by the mid-1970s. The Stargate TV series didn't begin until 1997, twenty years later. Why get people ready for a failed technology---when it was already 20 years in the making?
Don't draw real-life inferences about weapons from works of fiction. Everybody has seen people shot by various weapons in films, and the results are all fiction. Especially, the "blow-them-away" effects of shotguns. When a movie takes pains to be realistic, then it could be good, but not otherwise.
Their was an episode on Stargate, one of the scientists was demonstrating a laser. The laser broke and smoke came pouring out of it. Everyone in the University auditorium got up and left. The scientist sighed and sat down dejected. The main character asked him why it broke. Their starships fire these lasers all the time. The scientist said nonchalantly. Oh, yeah it was supposed to break down. The other character asks why? In order to prepare society for the future you have to let them see glimpses of it.
I wish I could updoot you forever because of the SG1 reference…. Complete soft disclosure. Haha
Including the Aschen and their vaccine
So much for fiction. I've dealt with lasers in real life. A failed demonstration is never on the plan. Weapon-level lasers were a known fact in development by the mid-1970s. The Stargate TV series didn't begin until 1997, twenty years later. Why get people ready for a failed technology---when it was already 20 years in the making?
Don't draw real-life inferences about weapons from works of fiction. Everybody has seen people shot by various weapons in films, and the results are all fiction. Especially, the "blow-them-away" effects of shotguns. When a movie takes pains to be realistic, then it could be good, but not otherwise.