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Jessica - May 14, 2012 8:44:06 am PDT #20186 of 30001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It's the "and it will never come back on" that's the sticking point. I can buy some kind of worldwide blackout where everything stops working. A flobitinum goes off and all the electric things go boom, fine.

I cannot buy a scenario where this couldn't fix the problem at least temporarily.

§ ita § - May 14, 2012 8:58:54 am PDT #20187 of 30001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Maybe no metals are conductive any more?

Magnets are broken?

Hey--they started it. I'm just looking for an explanation.

Jessica - May 14, 2012 9:01:40 am PDT #20188 of 30001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

What happens in this universe if you rub a balloon on a wool sweater?

Jessica - May 14, 2012 9:01:50 am PDT #20189 of 30001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Is there still LIGHTNING??

Polter-Cow - May 14, 2012 9:02:30 am PDT #20190 of 30001

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Lightning has been outlawed.

Theodosia - May 14, 2012 9:08:18 am PDT #20191 of 30001

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Let me recommend heartily Steve Gould's 7TH SIGMA where alien bug-robots like to eat conductive metals. (don't go near them if you have metal fillings or a pacemaker.). It was the sort of scenario that made my sense of logic pleased.

sumi - May 14, 2012 9:14:29 am PDT #20192 of 30001

Art Crawl!!!

That show is JJ Abrams and Eric Kripke.

Typo Boy - May 14, 2012 10:16:47 am PDT #20193 of 30001

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I think I talked before about a Spider Robinson novel where there were electricity eating aliens - ate electricity from any source that had over a certain voltage OR over a certain total wattage. So most electronic devices did not work. (This was in the 80s when there were not so many low power devices around.) For the writers convenience, the number was not specified but no generators, no household appliances, no radar and sonar even off battery. So conveniently did not have to worry about violations of laws of physics or life dropping dead, but no lightbulbs, or any of the stuff we depend on electricity for.

Vortex - May 14, 2012 4:31:02 pm PDT #20194 of 30001

"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Ha! Leap shout out on Eureka!

Frankenbuddha - May 14, 2012 5:14:02 pm PDT #20195 of 30001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

While it probably will not top the Farscape mind switch episode, I'm LOVING this Eureka so far.

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