Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35086897-20180410025240/@comment-26018514-20180417214907

Soldwolf wrote:

...few of the old masters, Asimov, Clarke, Hienlein, Poul Anderson,Piers Anthony, Alen Dean Foster and Fred Sabehagen,and the Queen herself Anne McCaffrey. Start with any one of their books...

and as for the tide pods explanation ...YouTube video's of teen that should know the differance swallowing those pods ...teens being unwise.

1. I have read their books(admittedly not a lot of them, though much of Pern) and Eyes=Beam weapons are not a technology that is passed down. The closest thing is the Dragon telepathy and Dragon "flamethrowers", which are scientifically explained in just about all of the novels, until you can explain to me how an organice device utilizing light can turn a conglomerate substance to stone at range depending upon some kind of mental chemical shift, and be passed down through generations without becoming useless DNA junk I'm gonna have to call BS.

2. Teenagers are idiots with a death wish/god complex and a tendency to attempt to be attention whores, unless death is swift and evident they will try anything their "friends" do, no matter how stupid(this is of course a generalization, but it is where the mental development at that stage is), reason doesn't factor in.