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Consider the following scenario: We are in a far future. Technology has advanced quite a bit. A large, devastating global war has broken out. One faction decides to hide from that war underground...
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samcarter
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2024-09-08T17:08:56Z (2 months ago)
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What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?
- Consider the following scenario:
- We are in a far future. Technology has advanced quite a bit.
A large, devastating global was has broken out. One faction decides to hide from that war underground; thanks to their technology they can create an autonomous society that's completely separated from the above-ground societies. There still exist a few connections to the outside world, but those are well hidden from the outside, and have protection technology to keep surface people out who might accidentally discover those.The war has now ended hundreds of years ago, and the peoples on the surface have lost all advanced technology. However for some reason the underground people didn't notice the end of the war, and still believe it is going on.- My question now is: What could be a believable reason that those underground people, who never lost their advanced technology, would not notice the end of the war for hundreds of years, and nobody ever went to the surface to look, despite the entrances still existing and being usable?
- Consider the following scenario:
- We are in a far future. Technology has advanced quite a bit.
- A large, devastating global war has broken out. One faction decides to hide from that war underground; thanks to their technology they can create an autonomous society that's completely separated from the above-ground societies. There still exist a few connections to the outside world, but those are well hidden from the outside, and have protection technology to keep surface people out who might accidentally discover those.
- The war has now ended hundreds of years ago, and the people on the surface have lost all advanced technology. However for some reason the underground people didn't notice the end of the war, and still believe it is going on.
- My question now is: What could be a believable reason that those underground people, who never lost their advanced technology, would not notice the end of the war for hundreds of years, and nobody ever went to the surface to look, despite the entrances still existing and being usable?
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by
celtschk
·
2024-09-08T12:32:16Z (2 months ago)
What could be a believable reason for technologically advanced underground people to not notice the end of surface war for hundreds of years?
Consider the following scenario: We are in a far future. Technology has advanced quite a bit. A large, devastating global was has broken out. One faction decides to hide from that war underground; thanks to their technology they can create an autonomous society that's completely separated from the above-ground societies. There still exist a few connections to the outside world, but those are well hidden from the outside, and have protection technology to keep surface people out who might accidentally discover those. The war has now ended hundreds of years ago, and the peoples on the surface have lost all advanced technology. However for some reason the underground people didn't notice the end of the war, and still believe it is going on. My question now is: What could be a believable reason that those underground people, who never lost their advanced technology, would not notice the end of the war for hundreds of years, and nobody ever went to the surface to look, despite the entrances still existing and being usable?