Black Panther: rhino domestication, click languages, and Killmonger overheating
Decipher SciFi
English - September 18, 2018 07:45 - 40 minutes - 32.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsNatural Sciences Science TV & Film Film Reviews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Afrofuturism
Wishing there were more of this in popular media.
Invisible cities
A review of invisibility technology: spatial, temporal, and spectral light cloaking. Vibranium to the rescue.
Vibranium
Space impactors. Resource
Armor
Body armor, stationary armor. Avoiding concussive force. Reactive armor in tanks: shaped explosives that explode at the other thing that’s gonna explode! Molecular springs of carbon for storage of mechanical energy from kinetic. How not to turn into Black Panther jelly when the suit releases its energy (be superhuman).
Absolute monarchies
Bas Rutten for king. Right hoooook.
Scars and sweat
Killmonger’s scarification and scar damage to the dermis. Sweat patterns around scars.
Telepiloting
Remote vehicle control. Light-speed communications delays. AI-assisted remote human driving.
War Rhinos
Domestication vs trainability. Extinct war elephants and why we can’t have war rhinos. Dürer’s rhinoceros, drawn from notes on the first rhino seen in Europe since Roman times.
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Click language
Xhosa! Bantu languages. The possibility of a connection to the earliest human languages.
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