Natal Feleci...Felli...Fe..HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY to yourandom_girl !

May you redeem this birthday wish for whatever sybaritic or intelectual pleasure you may want! (Oddly enough, we have a large surplus of the intellectual pleasures, as nobody seems to pick them)

In any case, whatever you pick, you deserve it, you wonderful person you!

Memeish: Lets talk about bad Fantasy or Sci Fi ideas

This discussion is about the conflict between logic and rationality.  It's about the situation where the writer or artist comes up with something really cute, and suddenly the logical part of one's brain says "Hey, wait a minute: did you really think this through?" Let's talk about those lovely ideas where the creator obviously didn't think about the consequences.

Here's my favorite example of "Did not think things through": Winged Cats:



Thank you M. Pena.

Aww, what could be cuter and more fantastical than putting wings on your favorite fuzzface! Wouldn't it wonderful to see them flying around!

But wait a minute, says the left side of my brain: even leaving aside bone and muscular issues, consider what giving wings to a cat would really mean. Cat's are voracious and very effective predators; consider what it would mean for the ecology if all of a sudden birds and other animals couldn't hide their young from cats. That's right- the extinction of most birds and other tree dwelling creatures! Ecological catastrophe!

So, good idea in concept, really bad idea in implementation. Now, what ideas have you stumbled across where the creator didn't consider the consequences? Anybody?