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Favorite scifi concept? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
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I'd love to hear about your favorite concept or idea you've read about or seen in scifi media.

My personal favorite is the Conjoiner Drive out of the Revelation Space series. These ship drives are dual drives on either side of a lighthugger and have a living being inside the drives to act as a supercomputer, which holds a wormhole open inside the drives. The wormhole links far in the past to the big-bang and uses the energy from the big-bang for propulsion.

In most scifi I've come across wormholes are used for FTL travel, and I thought this was such a unique and creative use of a wormhole it has stuck with me for years after reading about it.

So what are your favorite devices or ideas that have come out of scifi media?

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

IIRC there was something like that in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. The FTL method in that series requires a sentient biological mind to navigate it. In "The Sum of Its Parts," the crew encounters a race of artificial intelligence that has found a way around this problem...by simply taking the brains from sentient biological beings and basically using them as specialized processors for FTL calculations.

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