Undertow

Dec 13, 2003 14:42

What if Mr Hyde had had kids ( Read more... )

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nerd_king December 13 2003, 15:09:46 UTC
The world is already influenced hugely by the fictional.

Take Spider Jerusalem's incontinence pistol. In ten years that might become a reality, created perhaps by a guy who doesn't even remember reading your comic. Maybe he just overheard a conversation about it a few years ago and it lodged itself into his subconcious.

Cloning, space stations, laser weapons, tanks. All written about decades if not centuries before they appeared in real life.

It makes you think, if something else had been written about instead - would that have come to pass too?

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mistersleepless December 13 2003, 15:14:41 UTC
The Bowel Disruptor was based on late 80's/early 90's Non Lethal Weaponry papers.

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radiumx December 13 2003, 15:40:56 UTC
To be fair, low-level subsonics DO cause people to dump themselves ( ... )

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nerd_king December 13 2003, 16:12:33 UTC
Forget that - give me a cyberarm, night-vision cybereyes and a lightsaber any day.

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radiumx December 13 2003, 18:40:06 UTC
Norman Schwarzkopf, in a TV special on "the appeal of Star Wars" once said that we were four years and a few billion dollars away from having working lightsaber technology. Unf.

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