You could look into how the Spartans are surgically and cybernetically modified humans - I think that falls under the theory of transhumanism.
Where the devil does Eternal Darkness include any particular scifi ideas? Alternating timelines? I guess in the Lovecraftian sense it's pretty scifi...
| Khuutra said: You could look into how the Spartans are surgically and cybernetically modified humans - I think that falls under the theory of transhumanism. Where the devil does Eternal Darkness include any particular scifi ideas? Alternating timelines? I guess in the Lovecraftian sense it's pretty scifi... |
The whole game is one big lesson on the 7th dimension. Which techincally makes it more scientific than science fiction though that's where the mosnters and magik come in.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
Viper1 said:
The whole game is one big lesson on the 7th dimension. Which techincally makes it more scientific than science fiction though that's where the mosnters and magik come in. |
Hold up
You're gonna have to elaborate on that one
I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do.
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Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.
No one has mentioned the Mass Effect Codex?
Good lord. That thing contains more sci-fi ideas, both plausible and implausible, than any other game out there. You'll mainly want to look into the 'technology' sections.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
-Mass Effect's got the whole greater than light travel and eternal evil that threatens the whole universe (basic story behind several award winning Sci-fi novels (engines of god, fire upon the deep)
-Psychonauts has well psychic powers.
-Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross play the classic time traveling bit
- The Red Alert and Shadow Hearts series pull the whole parallel alternate universe what if bit.
- Lots of RPGs (Wild Arms1, Lunar 2, Grandia 1) use long lost ancient civilizations of tremendous power.
- Fallout uses the post apocalyptic theory.
| Gnizmo said: Off topic: Wow, just wow. I haven't read up on MGS4s story, but sthat just sounds so stupid to me. Then again I can science geek out on games and be overly critical of very minor problems. How in-depth are you willing to go here? The first game that pops to mind is KZ2, but thats just because I was reading the back story and going into fits of nerd rage over the minor problems. This would be trying to travel near light speed, the need for cryogenic freezing to keep people young while traveling at the speed of light over a long period of time, and fast communication between the ships and Earth once the ships reach a spot many lightyears away. I am not familiar with the tech backstory of the Metroid series, but it also has space ships travelling light years and communicating. Trauma Center series would probably have some good stuff too. Thrusting you into the role of a surgeon and dealing with topics very similar to your example. Whether or not certain patients have any chance of survival no matter how good the surgeon is would be interesting, but perhaps require more research than is worth putting into it. If you wanted to get really ambitious you could try tackling the Hal-life series. The science there is almost certainly shaky, but would require some looking into quantum physics to fully prove/disprove viability. Whether or not you can create a dorr to a parallel world, or create a portal between two distant locations that would allow near instantaneous travel between those two points. |
The cryogenic freezing wouldn't be necessary if you could get really close to the speed of light due to time dilation. That's one pretty big if though...
| De85 said: The cryogenic freezing wouldn't be necessary if you could get really close to the speed of light due to time dilation. That's one pretty big if though...
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Might still be necessary depending on how far you want to travel, because you can't accelerate human bodies much more than 1g for long timespans without clinical consequences. Thus you can't exploit the time "dilation" arbitrarily.
The calculations are quite easy for anyone wanting to dip their toes in restricted relativity, and there are good, easy texts out there (see: Taylor-Wheeler, "Spacetime Physics" for a nice university level but enjoyable primer)
WereKitten said:
Might still be necessary depending on how far you want to travel, because you can't accelerate human bodies much more than 1g for long timespans without clinical consequences. Thus you can't exploit the time "dilation" arbitrarily. The calculations are quite easy for anyone wanting to dip their toes in restricted relativity, and there are good, easy texts out there (see: Taylor-Wheeler, "Spacetime Physics" for a nice university level but enjoyable primer)
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Even if the human body could take it, you couldn't ever get a massive object moving fast enough to truly take advantage of relativistic effects. To my limited knowledge I don't think cryogenically freezing living people is any more plausible, but I guess these kinds of things are what this thread is about.
Also, I'm a junior in physics right now, so I've read plenty about relativity and done my fair share of calculations. 
@De85
Good, theoretical physicist here :)
Anyway the Taylor-Wheeler ref. was meant for the OP, in case he's interested in pulling some numbers for his project.
Edit: fixed typo
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