At 03:36 AM 7/22/01, Kat Feete wrote:
>Does the public- which will be heavily affected if, say, GE turns out to
>be a flop
General Electric?
>But, yes, superstition is alive and well- and never more so than in the
>field of science. One horribly famous science fictional quote is that any
>sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic. *I* don't
>understand this box I'm writing on (although, being almost through those
>four years, I gather that it's somehow based on quantum physics which in
>turn is based on something called the Uncertainty Principle, which really
>explains a lot):
It IS magic. Just with a fancy name.
--Ronn! :)
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I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
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