Vijf Sci-Fi films die echte wetenschap negeren

RDJ134 3 september 2016 om 20:00 uur

Science-Fiction films brengen ons er overtuigende wetenschappelijke devices waar mee we met aliens kunnen praten, op licht snelheid door het universum racen of zelfs door de tijdreizen. Alleen.... zou dat in de echte wereld zorgen voor een hoop problemen, sterken er zouden dodelijke ongelukken gebeuren die zelfs de mensheid zou uit kunnen roeien. De website Cracked.com heeft er nu dit artikel over geschreven met vijf voorbeelden.


#2. Time Travel Would Unleash Countless Plagues

Time travel would be an amazing socio-scientific tool: You could witness every major historical event firsthand, you could become history's greatest hero by getting Hitler into art school, or you could go the Biff Tannen route and use your future knowledge to win a bunch of money betting on who wins every season of The Bachelor. However, while time travel would be undeniably great for us here in the future, it would be downright catastrophic for every single person in the past that comes into contact with a future germ-carrying time-traveler.

The thing is, humankind is currently locked in an arms race with germs: As we create better methods for dealing with a given strain, another strain will become immune to the same treatment, meaning germs get more resilient every generation.

So, if Marty McFly took the DeLorean to, oh let's say the Old West, he'd be carrying a denim jacket full of hip, modern diseases. And while his body may be vaccinated against them and/or carry immunities developed over several generations, his presence would be like biological goddamned warfare against the people of Hill Valley, 1885.

And it's not like those of us here in the 21st century would be safe, either. If we had time travel, presumably the future would have it as well, barring some mass time machine product recall. We would be constantly inundated with super viruses from the year 3000 or whatever, piggybacking on the fashionable clothes of the Marty McFlys of the future. We'd have planet-wide plagues as often as we now have time-travel movies.

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