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12th Dec '20 at 05:09:10 AM

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Of course I understand where the question is coming from. In Star Trek we have inertial dampers, Broussard collectors, Heisenberg compensators, warp cores, phasers and many more things which the audience can immediately fathom in terms of how these things operate in the story. But these things are still just technobabble, only technobabble that is iterated.

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Of course I understand where the question is coming from. In Star Trek we have inertial dampers, Broussard collectors, Heisenberg compensators, warp cores, phasers and many more things which the audience can immediately fathom in terms of how these things operate in the story. But these things are still just technobabble, only technobabble that through repetition has become familiar to the audience.

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A more pernicious variety of technobabble is technobabble that is also technobabble in-universe, i.e. meaningless jargon that is used by some character to snow job or bullshit some other character. I call this pernicious because it is all the same to the audience anyway, and the writers create it using much the same word smithing techniques. (This is akin to believing that a dream-in-a-dream is somehow \

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A more pernicious variety of technobabble is technobabble that is also technobabble in-universe, i.e. meaningless jargon that is used by some character to snow job or bullshit some other character. I call this pernicious because it is all the same to the audience anyway, and the writers create it using much the same word smithing techniques. (This is akin to believing that a dream-in-a-dream is somehow \\\"deeper\\\".)

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12th Dec '20 at 05:08:42 AM

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Of course I understand where the question is coming from. In Star Trek we have inertial dampers, Broussard collectors, Heisenberg compensators, warp cores, phasers and many more thing that the audience can immediately fathom in terms of how these things operate in the story. But these things are still just technobabble, only technobabble that is iterated.

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Of course I understand where the question is coming from. In Star Trek we have inertial dampers, Broussard collectors, Heisenberg compensators, warp cores, phasers and many more things which the audience can immediately fathom in terms of how these things operate in the story. But these things are still just technobabble, only technobabble that is iterated.

Changed line(s) 9 from:

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A more pernicious variety of technobabble is technobabble that is also technobabble in-universe, i.e. meaningless jargon that is used by some character to snow job or bullshit some other character. I call this pernicious because it is all the same to the audience anyway, and the writers create it using much the same word smithing techniques. (This is akin to believing that a dream-in-a-dream is somehow \

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A more pernicious variety of technobabble is technobabble that is also technobabble in-universe, i.e. meaningless jargon that is used by some character to snow job or bullshit some other character. I call this pernicious because it is all the same to the audience anyway, and the writers create it using much the same word smithing techniques. (This is akin to believing that a dream-in-a-dream is somehow \\\"deeper\\\".)

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