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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5644982" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, let me be clear - we are talking about a game with superpowers.  So, breaking the laws of physics is going to happen.  I don't have a problem with that.  My point is that "nanotech" on this level is "magic".  Unless there's a story need to stipulate that the goodness comes from one particular source, it is usually better to just say "it's SCIENCE", and leave out the details.  Hollywood makes the error all the time - putting in technobabble that doesn't actually mean what they think it means, and thereby allowing holes in their logics.An example of what I mean is right here:You realize that there's only negligible amounts of free hydrogen in the atmosphere, right?  Free hydrogen tends to burn in the presence of oxygen, which we have in abundance - our atmospheric hydrogen has already combined with oxygen to become water.  So, your proposed energy supply isn't there.  That's a problem, even before how we get to how they apply the force.  Correct.Yes.  "Magic", as in "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from..." The question is simply why you'd want to use this one explanation for everything, instead of just saying, "there's a variety of advanced sciences and technologies in action in this world", and thus avoid potentially painting yourself into a corner when someone points out a hole in something.Yes.  However, he's proposing a single city like this, not a planet, so the tech shouldn't be on transhuman scales.  It has to have limitations that mean that it wouldn't be stupid to not just carry it everywhere.</blockquote>

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