Just thinking (bad for me I know) but when the prototype is possible or when it shows up?The TL is when the prototype becomes possible.
We DO have cold fusion prototypes.If that's that standard for prototypes, we have cold fusion now![]()
If you go back and read my post again, you will see I said it was NOT a prototype. Just a toy.Think about it for more than 2 seconds and you will see why that Roman toy is not a prototype steam engine.
If you can not see the difference say so and I will explain.
I apologise for my tone and misreading your post. It is nothing to do with wanting to be right, I have just had the roman steam engine argument argued to death (among others), So again I apologise.If you go back and read my post again, you will see I said it was NOT a prototype. Just a toy.
Thus, why I said it should be tied to when the prototype shows up and not when it is possible.
But never mind, I do not want to discuss this with someone more worried about being "right" than understanding the difference between when something might have been possible vs when something really exists.![]()
No they couldn't.The Romans could have invented the steam engine, if they had the need, as well as the time and opportunity.
Also, Archimedes.
To be honest it was closer to a steam pot then a steam engine. There’s a lot more that goes into even a pre basic steam engine than they could have actually built, they just didn’t have the metallurgy to do it.Romans had a steam driven toy but they failed to grasp the full potential of such a technology. But one could argue the prototype was possible for steam engines back then, they just didn't show up. So I am thinking it is less when they could have, but rather when they did. Or did I miss your point?![]()
Fair enough. I may have picked a bad example for the point I was questioning. Bottom line is, prototypes show up when everything comes together not just because the ability to make something exists. So I was suggestion possible might need to be switched for created or showed up or such.To be honest it was closer to a steam pot then a steam engine. There’s a lot more that goes into even a pre basic steam engine than they could have actually built, they just didn’t have the metallurgy to do it.
The TL is when the prototype becomes possible.
We DO have cold fusion prototypes.
But they operate on the inverse of the principle of a computer not behaving until an IT guy shows up to fix it...
The cold fusion works until any accredited outside observer shows up to verify its function.
Seems like personal [shields] should be TL18+.
No the problem is you put it on a table in a room with the cat who keeps knocking it off the table. And then dies. Or not.So it's a Quantum Cold Fusion unit.
If you would just leave it alone in its black box and stop trying to observe its operation and constantly collapse it's Wave Function, we could all have cold fusion right now . . .