Science Fiction Technology - Playing With Luck

Cotek is not anything is possible, but what might be plausible if something speific in our understanding of the universe turned out different. We generally include any technology common in science fiction too, like force fields or teleportation. Often a technology created in science fiction has all sorts of secondary uses the author didn't think of which can wreck a lot of the plot when contemplated. For instance, this month we are celebrating the hitch yces guide to the galaxy as our series for the month. And in that we have the infinite improbability drive, a ship drive that can basely take you anywhere or very quickly, but does so by playing with probability in often crazy ways.

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