For example, the Prior plague, would we need offworld or off-reality contacts to be able to deal with it, or is modern medicine up to the task, with mRNA vaccines and CRISPR?
It took an alien modified by interdimensional beings to cure it initially. But once they could observe an antibody they were able to manufacture the vaccine. With more outside help, but apparently without alien materials.
Testing if I can post from lemmy to kbin.
The Prior Plague may be partially supernatural in nature, so it would probably still defeat even our modern methods of defeating normal diseases. Without the extradimensional help, we’d almost certainly struggle.
Modern tech itself has caught in up in some ways, and not so much in others. For example, many of Earth’s Stargate control mechanisms are even more woefully out of date than they are compared to today. Your average smartphone is leagues faster than the supercomputers that they had hooked up to the gate.
We kind of see this in Atlantis, where they could get away operating Atlantis and the Atlantean Stargate with just a few laptops (admittedly, having the DHD there also helped).’
The Kino is just a regular drone, nothing particularly special or alien, and I could see things like the MALPs the SGC used to check gate conditions being woefully out of date. Just stick a few sensors to a drone, and fly it through the gate. It’s both faster and less hassle.
Reading this on Kbin.
I think it’s hard to gauge when looking back. In Window of Opportunity, Malak has a fold out picture screen; we now have folding smartphones, but looking back you would realise how futuristic that concept would have been in the late-90s/early 2000s.
The post itself is on Kbin, so no surprise there. There is one on Lemmy ([email protected]), but it doesn’t seem to be partnered with the Subreddit the same way as this one.
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