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What exotic science fiction technology would you finance research into, if you had billions of dollars? (self.asklemmy)

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

That has a real chance of existing? Something with clean power.

That I really want? Replicators. Man think about a life not having to cook or clean dishes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

So many stupid problems could be resolved with miniaturized fusion cells

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That I really want? Replicators. Man think about a life not having to cook or clean dishes.

Drug addicted, Mafia made, trash fed makers from Transmetropolitan, specifically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is transmet trending somewhere? I haven't seen it quoted or memed in years but now twice in two days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not that I'm aware. Probably Baader-Meinhof.

To wit, coincidences are more noticeable than non-coincidences, and once you've noticed one it'll be much easier to notice others you might have missed.

I myself once spent about a week seeing Curta hand-held mechanical calculators everywhere. Books, magazines, blog posts, youtube... I wasn't complaining, of course, the Curta is an amazing piece of engineering, but still, it was a bit weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Guessing not the replicators from sg1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Cooking is super fun tho