Talk:Philibert Aspairt's Chartreuse-Glass Goggles/@comment-3270170-20140519044323/@comment-5782071-20190317055122

I mean, in Eureka you had actual time travel (which, with the Einstein bridge device, explicitly crossed over with WH13), among other things I don't know about but, thanks to a shared universe, are possible without artifacts. And not everything fanciful in the universe is artifact-based - we have giant purple birds with some form of neutralizer in their biology, the existance of Alphas, vibes, aura-reading (and plenty more abilities mentioned on the agent creation app), and time slips (which canonically occur or occured many times at the Palace of Versailles without artifacts, otherwise I don't think the forks would have become artifacts at all), and I'm sure more examples exist outside the scope of the Warehouse itself.

And I'll remind you of Varley's energy shield again, which although made in modern times, is something made outside of the WH's supervision, without artifacts, and something possible but not regularly used in the common world of the show. If the Farnsworth or Telsa are anything to go by, just because a piece of advanced tech without artifacts exist and can be made, that doesn't mean they'd be used publically for one reason or other (even if they'd make things much easier and are objectively superior alternatives to publically used tools like phones or guns).