>Scientific culture has psychic powers >nobody cares

who are you quoting

>>50677171
Psychic powers aren't pure reality bending space magic when you come to realize that dark matter changes just by being observed, and is theoretically everywhere.

Just observe something down to its smallest part, something only "psykers" can do, and you can make dark matter change electrical patterns and even gravity.

>>50677171
Starwars

>>50677171
I kinda like spelljammers personally.

>>50677171
>I've never heard of Spelljammer but you guys should listen to me anyway

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>>50677171
>Scientific culture
>Magical culture

>OP has no idea what he's talking about
>never seen any of the settings where magic coexists with interstellar travel

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>>50677171
>science
>magic
>implying there's a difference when the science is sufficiently advanced
"How does this work?"
"Nanomachines, son."
"And how does that work?"
"Nanomachines, son."
"And how does this thingamajig work? Nanomachines?"
"Nah, it's magic."
"What, really?"
"Nah, I'm just kidding ya. It's nanomachines, son."

>>50677171
Psychic powers in SF are kind of grandfathered in from the 1960s and 70s, when they were considered to potentially be a real thing. There was even military research done to see if psychic powers existed and could be used in espionage. So a lot of writers used them in science fiction under the premise that it would be entirely possible that in the future we've discovered they exist and learned how to utilize them. The idea was eventually debunked, but at that point things like telepaths had been used often enough in science fiction that they had become a commonly accepted genre stable, along with force fields, rayguns, and faster than light spacecraft.

On the other hand, spaceships aren't really a common fantasy trope, so they seem out of place to people. Plus fantasy tends to be very strictly defined and moving away from it too much tends to just turn it into SF (speculative fiction more than science fiction, but that's generally what people mean when they say scifi anyway).

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>>50678480
>>never seen any of the settings where magic coexists with interstellar travel

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>>50678629
What';s even more funny is that a lot of that era had psychic abilities coexisting with magical abilities as distinct and separate things.

Which makes me laugh like hell at idiots triggered by 'psionics and magic don't coexist'.

>>50677171
Draenai

>>50678413

Came here to post this.

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>>50677171
They lose their minds so much, they make it into the most financially successful franchise of all time?

>>50679087
I am okay with this interpretation.