• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    3 days ago

    It’s “hard sci-fi”, so that means no lightspeed travel but also we’ve had cryo sleep since the 90s because obviously that’s so fucking easy to invent.

    Also, lots of mixed culture names like Aleksander Ho because your genius prediction of the future is that people will intermarry.

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        It works conceptually, but in Demolition Man they had it working supposedly in 1996, only three years after the movie came out. Of course lots of old sci-fi now has those laughably optimistic future timelines where the Mars colony is up and running in 2010.