A bang big enough to blow up a typhoon is big enough to cause nuclear winter.

I guess we’ll just have to call it Hong Gary then.

(about $4,000)

Ok, so use a combo shot with a maser. If the light beam doesn fry the outside, the microwave beam will fry the inside.

It’s more about good writing. It’s often said you’re allowed to have one cheat. You have to be consistent about it and the rest of the rules of the universe still apply. But often enough in fiction the writers start breaking any rule or law of physics when the plot requires it instead of fixing the plot to follow consistent world building. It’s lazy writing and bad for immersion. A lot of the tension in a story is from the characters overcoming limitations, not having limitations disappear whenever convenient.

Try it and end up in pain

Even though there is a shipping lane

Because that would be insane

To arrive in Spain

It never actually worked. He never got further than spewing radiation.

So many.

Normal people get slammed into a wall by monster, explosion or whatever, stand up and walk away. Buddy, you don’t walk that off. People die or need months of recovery from less.

Don’t get me started on the speed force. You do some napkin math and see the Flash is taking on a 1000G running in circles close to mach 2 without blinking and then gets knocked unconscious with a single punch in the next scene. Flash is not the only one of course.

And the lone inventor developing a fully conscious AI in some mountain cabin on an old laptop. It was clear that would never work and reality now shown us AI companies looking into nuclear powered data centers to speed up things.

They really want to force gamers to buy their new games which are pretty much like the old games but now with extra helpings of ads, gambling mechanics and micro transactions on top

When BRICS wanted a multipolar world order, I assume a nuclear armed Ukraine was not in their plans.

The front fell off.

This one is street legal and flight certified: https://www.pal-v.com. The others are still doing certification. But yeah, it’s not really what people thought the future was going to be. It never is. Retrofuturism exists for a reason.

And the modern replacement for the helicopter is the eVTOL. That one is also often called a flying car, although they’re not street legal. As far as I know nobody died in an eVTOL yet.

but did not last for long it seems

Yeah, turns out it’s easier and cheaper to charter a jet and rent a car at the destination.

https://www.pal-v.com/ is one for example. Certified for road and air. You need a pilot license and a driving license. And it needs a short runway to take off or land. €499,000 excluding tax.

That’s a bit unfair. You can actually buy a flying car today. A few companies recently got their vehicle fully certified and are doing commercial sales. It’s not cheap. If you can’t afford a second Ferrari don’t bother.

The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

then a 2-season long summer basically, then fall. That’s it.

Like in the tropics, dry season and rain season. Or drought and flooding season of we’re unlucky.