If there are deposits of this stuff that mucks with electronics, maybe the prisoners start digging it up, putting it on dumb rockets, and firing it into orbit... there's some revenge.
(The V2 reached space before coming back down, and was designed using slide rules, pen, and paper.)
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2018-06-28, 06:44 AM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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Re: Got a Real-World Weapon, Armor or Tactics Question? Mk. XXV
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
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