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Post by rmarks1 on Mar 4, 2018 13:39:08 GMT -5
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Post by faskew on Mar 6, 2018 8:53:19 GMT -5
Gee, Frankenstein's monster doesn't look a day over 150!
Unfortunately, a large percentage of the SF genre is anti-science, even today. Most people don't know much about or understand science and technology and are therefore fear them. The irony, to me, is that in all these anti-science stories, it's really the humans who screw things up, not the technology.
Michael Crichton's books are good examples. He was seriously anti-science and every one of his 25 or so SF novels was anti-science. Jurassic Park is a good example. The park was poorly designed. What idiot would depend on keeping T-Rexs locked up with electric fences on a tropical island that has hurricanes that routinely knock out the electric wires? Even regular back in the 1990s used large pits so that their most dangerous animals can be out of cages but can't reach the tourists, even in a blackout. All the dinos were female, so they couldn't escape and breed, but they used frog DNA to fill in gaps in the dino DNA when biologists know that frog are sequential hermaphrodites (can change from one sex to the other, if needed). Besides, bird DNA would be closer to dinos anyway.
So poor park design, ignorant biologists, and a greedy human conspire to ruin the park. But science gets the blame. Grrr.
Same as it ever was.
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