additionally, a simple lens can be ground with hand tools and no preexisting technology except glassmaking to produce several hundred power magnification
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> > wrote: >> What are you using to compare the quality of optics to the quality of >> computers? > > * For example, having optics for 2700 years and having computers for > somewhat more than 50 years. > * Optics is able to help humans with disabilities for a long time, > while computers are just starting with that task. > * Optics is able to reach events around the beginning of the Universe, > while computers are starting now to make really big things (for > example, really useful Internet for a lot of humans exists a couple of > years). > * A lot of basic cures invented thanks to optics. > * Thanks to optics we are able to make computers. > * Generally, everything which differs one simple technology from the > complex contemporary technology depends on optics. > > Of course, it is [still] not possible to compare such things exactly; > as well as such comparison may be a good source for parody. And, of > course, computers started to help in all of those fields, but, > generally, the most of ordinary things around us still depend much > more on optics than on computers. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
