I realize how dumb my post was, having not read the entire post of who I responded to

Fwiw a British flight surgeon also invented the flak jacket.

The Spitfire was a magnificent airplane, but it became available in significant numbers a bit later in the war. The Hawker Hurricane shot down the German planes that were the real threat to Britain.

You have to hand it to R J Mitchell’s design.

Lord of Light especially, since it was all about the blending of religious mythology with science.

Dune. Dune is a science fiction series that reads like epic fantasy. Sparring royal families, chosen ones, telepathic abilities that might as well be magic wielded by what is essentially an order of witches. Even the story structure has a very “grand quest-y” sort of feel to it.

For some reason I can’t post pictures but...

The T-Rex is NOT from the Jurassic period... The only accurate dinosaur in this Jurassic Park is the Brachiosaurus

They could have come up with much more dangerous-I-mean-interesting animals for several time periods there. For instance, for Ordovician Park, don’t use sea stars, use sea scorpions!

I could be wrong, but I would think it more likely it would just merrily keep going forward, now incorrect by a second, until the next sync puts it on the right time.

And it’s tribute to how accurate our clocks have become that we can detect these tiny changes due to tidal forces speeding up and slowing down the Earth’s rotation. The accuracy of our GPS depends on it.

Yeah, I mean, to be called a troll for asking for clarification of an ambiguous post seems like a rush to judgment. But I guess I’m the outlier here.

What is the purpose of this comment?

Actually, I see cyberpunk as the beginning of the end of readable science fiction. The literary quality of the cyberpunk genre is marginal at best, and its pretensions and tropes are quite ugly.

Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine too. We rarely see planets with realistic ecosystems. But at least in this novel, we are given an actual rationale for having a Planet of Tea. Interestingly, one of the few places I've seen realistic ecosystems in novels is in fantasy:

....a remote tea plantation planet...