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Old 2009-06-19, 19:25   Link #118
Roger Rambo
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Originally Posted by stubby42 View Post
As for the idea that she'd be unfamilar of fire works, I suppose its possible but to be honnest technological changes and cultural changes dont really work like that. Its a cultural activity practiced the world over, technology only disapears when something better replaces it, fire works serve no pracitcal purpose so nothing is likely to replace them or something happens that causes us to loose knowledge (think Roman empire to the dark ages) but that seems unlikely because our ability to produce information and record it has grown dramatically.
Unless of course they're a post singularity civilization that has been interfaced with computers for the last thousand generations. The trivial purposeless entertainment of a civilization like that would be mind bogglingly different than anything we could think of.

In this civilization, knowing about boats and chemical explosives of any kind either makes you a history buff of a crazy survivalist.
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Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon View Post
Advanced holographic technology could easily replace pretty explosives.
You don't need holograms if you've got a computer plugged directly into your head that can make you see shit.
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