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[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

It is truly a dumb decision because it's got absolutely nothing to do with the film. It's just lazy justification for being there, they could have chosen anything.

I think it's a room temperature superconductor which, ok I can see why that's useful, but if you're in a future where you have interstellar starships flying on a semi regular basis to another star system I think you've probably already invented room temperature superconductors. In fact they must have room temperature superconductors because their starships are powered by fusion drive which needs electromagnetic confinement in order to work. So at least the first ship would have to already have that tech just to get out there in the first place.

[โ€“] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 22 hours ago

Wow, we agree 100%, but we got there from completely different directions.