page 1068 – more sleepy folks
(Historical Notes: Not a lot to add on this one, but it does amuse me that mere days before re-posting this page, I was in a conversation about whether Layla’s more of a Big Sister or a Cool Aunt. I guess she’s settling the issue herself here, huh? Thanks for the good timing, Layla! Also, around the point I seem to recall the comment section pointing out that Tabitha’s “mad science” was beginning to sound more and more like some kind of black magic. That’s an entirely valid observation, and would have been interesting in light of all her arguments with her Dad if I’d been doing it on purpose… but I wasn’t. It just sounded funny when I wrote it and I didn’t think about how it was adding up to something out of character. Whoops.)
Re: commentary- “any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from SCIENCE” (line from a girl genius Cinderella story)
You know, I feel like I’ve heard a form of that sentiment from several different sources over the years… though as I sit here writing this, I can’t think what any of those other sources would have been…
Any sufficiently advanced science or complex magic is indistinguishable from an ad hoc plot device.
any science that does not look magical is insufficiently advanced for a scifi setting
So the communicators and control panels in Star Trek are now, retroactively, insufficiently advanced for it’s own plot. Interesting.
you don’t think that tapping on a shirt pin and teleporting away from the planet is magical? its been to long for me to say anything about control panels in star trek
vague and confusing enough to be esoteric, but holograms would have been better.
also i said insufficiently for a scifi setting. so not for its plot. possibly for its genre.