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The Game of My Dreams
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Active ecosystem? On Mars?

No proof of it whatsoever, and if there was anything, any surface ecosystem there was made up of single-celled organisms...
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And any underground one, too.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I must say, I do prefer fantasy to Sci-fi.
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Well, at least there you can murder any semblance of reality legitimately.

But most science fiction is fantasy anyway, just with a technological and or "futuristic" slant to it. IMO the real hard stuff died out in the middle of the last century, though at the dawn of sci-fi there was soft stuff around as well (Edgar Rice Burroughs' works and whatnot).

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Hard sci-fi is quickly beginning to like like the fantastic sci-fi of old. Anti-aircraft lasers? A manned mission to an asteroid? Floating balloon cities on Venus? Robots that develop and express emotions? All things we're planning on doing or already developing.

And we're making discoveries that sci-fi writers of old never even dreamed of (literally). Quantum entanglement allowing instant communication between any two points, regardless of the distance between them; tiny stars as sources of unlimited clean energy; reactivation of genes allowing mammals to regenerate tissues and organs like amphibian limbs; magnetic fields that kill off cancer cells but not healthy ones. Hell we've even got a satellite in orbit that can scan planets orbiting other stars and tell us their geological and atmospheric compositions to such clarity and precision that we could even determine if it had an industrial civilization on it.
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Quantum entanglement is hardly a perfect system of communication. And there are three possible conclusions that can be taken from the Bell experiment.

Tiny stars have to be contained, however.

The reactivation of genes remains a lab experiment due to ethics and practicality. We're quite a way off.

But the satellite barely covers any of the sky. Don't get me wrong, we're doing well, but we've got a long long way to go.
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But most science fiction is fantasy anyway, just with a technological and or "futuristic" slant to it. IMO the real hard stuff died out in the middle of the last century, though at the dawn of sci-fi there was soft stuff around as well (Edgar Rice Burroughs' works and whatnot).

Really? I never knew Voyage, Planetes, Ghost in the Shell, Shattered Horizon, Rocket Girls and Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets were made in the 50's.
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Really? I never knew Voyage, Planetes, Ghost in the Shell, Shattered Horizon, Rocket Girls and Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets were made in the 50's.
Bite my shiny metal ass.

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The report would go straight to a Mod, ie. Lamna.
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There's always a bunch of exceptions to anything, not that i'm advocating anything.
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No.

That (the Game of my Dreams) has yet to come.

But i'm not sure it would be possible with modern processing power/memory capacities.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it, it does not matter that FTL is impossible and unicorns improbably, modern ones especially.

Besides, a little squishiness is often necessary for a good story. Even fairly hard Space Operas like the Honor Harrington and Mass Effect simply would not work without a little give in it. Hard SF can make a good story, but it doesn't make softer stuff worse.

The game of my dreams is playing as part of a Support Unit for a para-military police force on a outlying world in a great human empire, dealing with the scum who pass through, uppity natives, independent minded locals and cultists who want to set up shop somewhere quite. Preferably by a woman in high boots.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it, it does not matter that FTL is impossible and unicorns improbably, modern ones especially.

Besides, a little squishiness is often necessary for a good story. Even fairly hard Space Operas like the Honor Harrington and Mass Effect simply would not work without a little give in it. Hard SF can make a good story, but it doesn't make softer stuff worse.
I would say that Unicorns in their classical form were less probable than FTL drives.

At least we have FTL specs, if they can't be powered.
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A horse like antelope with 1 horn. You're right it's impossible.
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