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"Also the interaction between firebreathers and any hydrogen-based aircraft would be short and lamentable." Haha, yes it would!
My suspicion in that place is that heavier than air craft would become a major focus for anyone without their own Dragons.
In our universe hot air balloons were first perfected in 1783. If Temeraire's universe parallels ours in tech then hot air balloons would already been around. In that case, why wouldn't they have been used as barrage balloons?
I am only in book 2, but I have been thinking of this question as well. It would be interesting to see how technology would form around dragons. In a sense, automobiles and tractors replaced the need for horses, but we still have horses as a form of enjoyment and therapeutic. So even though technology replaced what we used horses for more, we found other uses for horses. Would this be the same for dragons? How would dragons be used in modern warfare in the Temeraire universe?
"Also the interaction between firebreathers and any hydrogen-based aircraft would be short and lamentable." I about died laughing over the truth of this statement.
I am of the view that as soon as it becomes a possibility that humans can fly w/o dragons, certain populations would race to do so. Some people will continue to not trust dragons and prefer a machine that they have full control over. Others will simply be the techies of the age who love the challenge.
I think as the weapons of war diversify in weight and deployment, as human population sizes grow, as individualism and capitalism strengthens, and as dragons gain more and more independence and begin to build their own cultures, it will start to become desirable, even necessary, to take dragons out of the equation of regular flight.
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"Also the interaction between firebreathers and any hydrogen-based aircraft would be short and lamentable." Haha, yes it would!
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My suspicion in that place is that heavier than air craft would become a major focus for anyone without their own Dragons.
In our universe hot air balloons were first perfected in 1783. If Temeraire's universe parallels ours in tech then hot air balloons would already been around. In that case, why wouldn't they have been used as barrage balloons?
I am only in book 2, but I have been thinking of this question as well. It would be interesting to see how technology would form around dragons. In a sense, automobiles and tractors replaced the need for horses, but we still have horses as a form of enjoyment and therapeutic. So even though technology replaced what we used horses for more, we found other uses for horses. Would this be the same for dragons? How would dragons be used in modern warfare in the Temeraire universe? "Also the interaction between firebreathers and any hydrogen-based aircraft would be short and lamentable." I about died laughing over the truth of this statement.
I am of the view that as soon as it becomes a possibility that humans can fly w/o dragons, certain populations would race to do so. Some people will continue to not trust dragons and prefer a machine that they have full control over. Others will simply be the techies of the age who love the challenge. I think as the weapons of war diversify in weight and deployment, as human population sizes grow, as individualism and capitalism strengthens, and as dragons gain more and more independence and begin to build their own cultures, it will start to become desirable, even necessary, to take dragons out of the equation of regular flight.
