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AdmiralAsshatlast Sunday at 3:58 PM2 repliesview on HN

Half of Star Trek would basically be "magic" by that rubric. I think she reasoned through a problem and conceived of a solution, even if she didn't have the implementation details figured out.


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ThrowawayR2last Sunday at 4:28 PM

Star Trek was never described as hard science fiction.

simmeruplast Sunday at 4:24 PM

That’s not hard sci-fi though. Something like Stephen Baxter’s work is hard sci-fi, the ansible was just a plot device