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Originally Posted by rogerbo
When Jules Vernes did write his novels all his inventions where Fantasies THEN and now ???
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Jules Verne wrote his novels based on scientific knowledge that was current at the time. He knew that what he wrote about could be done. It was just a matter of time. When he wrote 20,000 Leagues the submarine was already a fact. He just wrote of a bigger one.
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We realy don't know what will happen in the next 100 Years just look at the developement of the PC, Car and Plains how far have they come in just 100 Years, so this timespann is in the Galactical view nothing.
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But these developments only came because of the serious application of the scientific method, which only really started in 1637 when Descartes wrote his Discourse on Method. The developments you cite came about because this gave scientists a base whereby they could weed out their own biases. This is why we know that our scientific knowledge is pretty good, and not open to vast flaws of the kind you suggest might exist. The advances in aircraft and the development of the PC all come from refinements in our knowledge and application of that knowledge. None of them came from sudden 'eureka' moments where whole new branches of physics were suddenly discovered that we didn't know about before.
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How far would be a Race who has maybee 100'000 or even 1M Years more time to research ???
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In terms of research, not very much further. In terms of applications, quite far, but I seriously doubt that it would get them to Alpha Centauri in an hour as Star Wars spacecraft could. Such things are just not on the cards.