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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
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.
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March 9th, 2005, 12:28 AM
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
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.
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
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.
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
Quote:
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'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.
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Don't forget the corollary:
"Any technology that IS distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
I found the article.
Dean Kamen
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
Quote:
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Quote:
narf poit chez BOOM said:
'Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' - either Asimov or Clarke, original quote.
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Don't forget the corollary:
"Any technology that IS distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
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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
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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?
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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)
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
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
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Re: NEWS: MT. St Helens just erupted
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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