Hacker News Reader

OK, you need to watch some more Star Trek and get some optimism going ;)

After 4 decades of reading/watching sci-fi, I've evolved to reality based entertainment. :p

Actually if you read John Barne's article on world-building,"How to Build a Future," where he talks about building the universe for the "Thousand Cultures" series, he discusses in detail the issues with local interstellar travel. (Since he has to plot around them.)

Also Star Trek is space opera, you probably should be reading hard sci-fi.

Hard scify is limited because is based on current knowledge. In 200 years thinks may have evolved quite a bit though. Maybe not to startrek standars, but something completely different that we can not imagine now(or that we can imagine but not give a theorem about).

I watched the last two ST movies and it just makes me want to see shit explode.

Everyone knows Star Trek films are terrible. :)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com