Do you think it's hard being a scientist in the Marvel and DC universes? I don't mean the insanely brilliant guys, the Reed Richards and Mr. Terrifics of the universe. I'm thinking of a slightly more normal level of scientific brilliance.
You've got alleged gods and mutants who change the weather if they get angry, ladies in fishnets who can make people disappear by speaking backwards, purple energy rays that can heal or kill, aliens with technology so advanced it might as well be magic. Would that just frustrate the heck out of someone?
It seems like science is about figuring out the fundamental laws that hold the universe together, but that could be difficult when there are people who can change or ignore what seem to be those laws, at a whim? Trying to figure out how organisms change over time, when you've got to consider the possibility that the organisms you see might have been genetically engineered (the Kree made the Inhumans that way, maybe there are non-sentient animals in a similar boat).
I guess the tradeoff is that it would open up a whole new world of opportunities for study, frustrating though they might be. I suppose it could be fun if you can get ahold of some alien tech, and you enjoy the challenge of taking it apart, figuring out what makes it work, and then finding a way to apply it to your world. Still, I wonder what it would be like to be presented with something like that, and spend your life just figuring out how to take it apart without risking blowing yourself up. Would that feel like a worthwhile lifetime pursuit?
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Maybe, but Richards and co'd write papers to use as cliff notes to the insane laws.
The really irritating thing would be Richard's patents and Nobel prizes. He gets them in the face of all the basic laws of the universe. That's gotta be a pain.
Also, he has a time machine. There goes the patent race.
You know, I think that there explains De. Thirteen and his inability to except the supernatural even when it is right in his face.
I think the best stories start with the mundane and build the unbelievable out of that.
I don't think Ed Wood was kidding when he described the Suspension of Disbelief. I just think you have to give an audience a reason to use it. More factual reasons, make it easier for an audience to get lost in a story.
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