Originally posted by SGSargon
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But not MacGyver.
Given the nature of the mission, it's most likely that the majority of scientists are just theoretical physicists, mostly astrophysics and not full engineers. Their knowledges about other domains would be limeted. And whats good in theory is not always good in practice.
About that school (and the village) in the end, that was build over decades, at least 50 years at most (only Wray was the last survivor). By that time things have changed considerably.
If you want your knowledge to not vanish, then you must make sure it will also be applied in the real world, not just on paper. If you begin to teach some young students on Novus only lets say, 100 years, when you only have a small industry, about quantum physics and electronics and gallium semiconductors, everybody will ask you:
"What's the purpose of learning this, if my kiln doesn't use that, and we have no electronics apart from some dead things that our grandparents left us and what is that gallium whatever, I've never saw that?
And you'll say:
"But we'll need them in the future"
"Well, the future can wait. I think that learning things that are set in present would be better."
Afterall, IRL we hear a lot of people saying that the fusion power will be an excellent source of energy, that simulations show a huge release of energy, that the physicists bla bla bla. Although this its true (just look at the stars), no experiment so far has created a working prototype and the research is only carried out by a few companies and organisations.
So while it would be cool, its not yet and nobody likes promises.
And yep, cement is not something you can make it in the kitchen.
Given the nature of the mission, it's most likely that the majority of scientists are just theoretical physicists, mostly astrophysics and not full engineers. Their knowledges about other domains would be limeted. And whats good in theory is not always good in practice.
About that school (and the village) in the end, that was build over decades, at least 50 years at most (only Wray was the last survivor). By that time things have changed considerably.
If you want your knowledge to not vanish, then you must make sure it will also be applied in the real world, not just on paper. If you begin to teach some young students on Novus only lets say, 100 years, when you only have a small industry, about quantum physics and electronics and gallium semiconductors, everybody will ask you:
"What's the purpose of learning this, if my kiln doesn't use that, and we have no electronics apart from some dead things that our grandparents left us and what is that gallium whatever, I've never saw that?
And you'll say:
"But we'll need them in the future"
"Well, the future can wait. I think that learning things that are set in present would be better."
Afterall, IRL we hear a lot of people saying that the fusion power will be an excellent source of energy, that simulations show a huge release of energy, that the physicists bla bla bla. Although this its true (just look at the stars), no experiment so far has created a working prototype and the research is only carried out by a few companies and organisations.
So while it would be cool, its not yet and nobody likes promises.
And yep, cement is not something you can make it in the kitchen.
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