[ExI] hard science

[Mike Dougherty]

On Feb 17, 2014 2:39 AM, "Adrian Tymes" <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 5:51 AM, Ben <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> So, any far-future scenario that's at all interesting for me is one in
which humans have been uploaded long ago.  They will be far removed from
current humans, would likely be entirely incomprehensible to us, and have
abilities that we can barely understand or even imagine.
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>> Not ideal material for a story, is it?
>
>
> This is part of why I suggested dialing it back to no more than a
thousand years from now.  There's only so far into the future one can write
while keeping it both realistic and interesting to modern audiences

Another famous option is a spatially distant locale, presumably beyond the
viewer's own light cone:
"In a galaxy far, far away..."
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