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They have fluorescent light bulbs but never saw a gun?


Okay, technology develops at different rates?

"It's the system, Lara. People will be different after the Revolution."

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The show's arts designer has no science background. He should use candles in the set.

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I was thinking it's because Oz gave them light, but doesn't want them to know about guns.

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The cyborg is the problem. No, the science makes no sense.

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I think it's because Jane refused to make guns...

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The only electric lights in the show are incandescent.

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Actually, yes. A great error many make is assuming if a culture has developed one bit of technology it must have created another because that's the way it happened with Us (and by us I am referring to Western Amercan/European cultures.) Other cultures developed differently. Asia, South America, and so forth have developed technologies in different sequences.

A prime example is South America. Most cultures there never developed the wheel. Yes, they knew about it. Children's toys had them. But they did not develop them for practical use. Why? Who knows. They were certainly no less intelligent than Europeans or Asians.

In future ages, or when/if we encounter non-terrestrial species they may ask why we don't have x technology when we have y and they developed together on their world.

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That's funny cuz I'm sure that Scarecrow is carrying a handgun in the original movie when the monkeys attack.

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