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CovertJaguar March 9th, 2005 12:25 AM
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Really? I got this one from Dean Kamen the guy who made the segway scooter. They called him the Wizard of IT back when they didn't know what IT was.

narf poit chez BOOM March 9th, 2005 12:28 AM
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That's the first time I've heard the Dean Kamen qoute, but I've heard the other one about a dozen times, and either of them were writing in the 30's.

CovertJaguar March 9th, 2005 12:33 AM
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It was a quote in an article I read several years ago. The quote caught my eye, so I saved it. It seemed fitting with my work on the Adamant Pics.

Suicide Junkie March 9th, 2005 12:34 AM
Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
 
Quote:
narf poit chez BOOM said:
'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.
Don't forget the corollary:
"Any technology that IS distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."

CovertJaguar March 9th, 2005 12:43 AM
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I found the article.
Dean Kamen

Phoenix-D March 9th, 2005 12:54 AM
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Quote:
Suicide Junkie said:
Quote:
narf poit chez BOOM said:
'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.
Don't forget the corollary:
"Any technology that IS distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
Or the Florence Ambrose amendum: Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it.

http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00255.htm

CovertJaguar March 9th, 2005 01:02 AM
Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
 
I seem to remember reading somewhere a line that sort of sounded like this:
Magic is simply something that the uninitiate does not understand.

Any ideas as to the source of that line?

Yith_Saulkar March 9th, 2005 01:26 AM
Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
 
The Plume reached 36k feet and the eruption lasted about 30 min. No show from here though I live in Bellingham. Maybe Mt. Baker will give me a "show" someday.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

luke_slovakian March 9th, 2005 02:39 AM
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It would really really suck if st helens blew full blast...smoke would get to me:-(. And also would kill at and anythere because the dust is like microscopic glass, well sharp and will cut you lungs and throat if enhailed. PAINFUL DEATH

Atrocities March 9th, 2005 04:16 AM
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Well the intial ploom was about 35k high but disipated rapidly. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif It was an Ash fart. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif It did however catch everyone off gaurd so that is the scary thing.


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