• Sordid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    4000 words? Oh please, that can be done in a hundredth of that: The laws of physics are constant, and more advanced technologies have energy requirements that must be met by preceding technologies. At the same time, each technology also has to offer enough tangible benefits to be worth pursuing on its own.

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        9 months ago

        Feel free to make up the difference by rereading those two sentences a hundred times. Maybe that’ll be enough for the point to get through.