NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted

[CovertJaguar]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I found the article.
Dean Kamen

[Phoenix-D]

Suicide Junkie said:

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]

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]

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....

[luke_slovakian]

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]

Well the intial ploom was about 35k high but disipated rapidly. It was an Ash fart. It did however catch everyone off gaurd so that is the scary thing.