I cringe every time I read about this…. bacteria that will eat the plastic that makes up our current world.
Larry Niven’s Ringworld series showed a hyper advanced tech society effectively devastated into a tech-medieval level… Later in the series, we find one of the other races wanted to cripple the Engineers by …. sending a microbe that ate away all their superconductors.
So you got a warning from sci-fi that we are walking into head first.
I’m pretty sure that the reactors these guys are building are designed to only be functional at a particular temperature that isn’t found anywhere natively on the surface of our planet like the 150-200 degree range.
I never could get into the Ringworld books, but I love reading about them in small snippets.
I cringe every time I read about this…. bacteria that will eat the plastic that makes up our current world.
Larry Niven’s Ringworld series showed a hyper advanced tech society effectively devastated into a tech-medieval level… Later in the series, we find one of the other races wanted to cripple the Engineers by …. sending a microbe that ate away all their superconductors.
So you got a warning from sci-fi that we are walking into head first.
I’m pretty sure that the reactors these guys are building are designed to only be functional at a particular temperature that isn’t found anywhere natively on the surface of our planet like the 150-200 degree range.
I never could get into the Ringworld books, but I love reading about them in small snippets.