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Tasks / Prove The Asimov Maxim Works For Back To The Future Thaumaturgy In Theory

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If Asimov says that:

Any sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic to the unindoctrinated.

And we suppose that:

"Doctor Brown" (cause he's a shithead) could use a Hadron collider with awesome magnets (maybe not the current [haha see electromagnetics and violently excessive juice] one that was dug out in Europe) to pass lightspeed.

And we suppose that:

The theory of relativity assumes that passing lightspeed will affect the material physics of energy and matter in the past really.

What constitutes sufficient indoctrination such that we are stable enough across time to affect matter in a conscious way to provide reality enhancement which is sound to our way of perceiving reality if we are alive in the sense we believe we are according to biographical verisimilitude. And while we
re at it, we should have the ability to honor what we believe in from the past and of each other and this web shall not fall.

So, given that prayer is Thaumaturgy really (I'm a pryor I should know) what theory can be published without kook factor killing it totally? Is it not the purview of mathematicians, physicists, and those who would preserve that web. For really the first are only the most obvious. And the last, if you ask a fat Lakotan comedian who does impressions of the past, and made that carved door by the Universal sign out of very heavy wood yet left that odd piece of metal in it, is a humdinger. whatisa

I selected Humanitarian Crisis as well because I have evidence of the mathematicians and physicists and astronauts having something to contend with that is a bit rough. This has to do with the undermining of assumptions that are reasonable about reality given a healthy weltanschaung. We haven't beat the spacetime pirates into obeying the web's fundamental needs. Perhaps they don't want to understand politeness and protocol yet, but there is something to the idea of doing it right. Heave ho "oh that landed well". Do these guys not know how to fuck even? That would imply that it was the prayer and wishes rather than the folks doing the research which would indicate that there was a guy named SWITCHY.

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(no subject) +2
posted by Fonne Tayne on May 27th, 2008 8:52 PM

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posted by Blue on May 27th, 2008 9:14 PM

I second that…
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(no subject) +1
posted by teucer on May 27th, 2008 9:16 PM

It's a Tony Pryor task. Interrobangs are the only possible response.

(no subject) +1
posted by Lincøln on May 27th, 2008 9:49 PM

man what

(no subject)
posted by Burn Unit on May 27th, 2008 8:54 PM

Aren't the Lakota a pensive, reserved people?

(no subject) +5
posted by help im a bear on May 27th, 2008 10:27 PM

those sure are words and they appear to be grouped into sentences

besides
posted by Burn Unit on May 28th, 2008 7:29 AM

I'm pretty sure Clarke said that.

(no subject)
posted by teucer on May 28th, 2008 7:33 AM

I'm also pretty sure he didn't say anything about "to the unindoctrinated."

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posted by Jellybean of Thark on May 28th, 2008 8:03 AM

I once spoke to a man who said he was from the future. He said he was able to will himself through time. Like John Carter traveling to Mars, he said.

He couldn't explain exactly how it worked, because he was a civil servant, not a scientist. He apologized for this sounding far-fetched, he said he realized that technology from fourteen-thousand years in the future would sound ridiculous to a 21st century person. As such, he'd been having a hard time being taken seriously. He told me that, "Any sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic to the unindoctrinated."

Mr. Pryor, you didn't by any chance call a law office in Los Angeles in April of 2006 looking to have someone help you set up a California S-Corporation did you?

that was me +1
posted by Burn Unit on May 28th, 2008 10:00 AM

We really really could have used your assistance, C.M.

(no subject)
posted by JJason Recognition on May 28th, 2008 7:34 PM

You know, sometimes the I suspect that C.M. is living a life drastically more exciting and interesting than mine.

The rest of the time I know that C.M's life is more exciting than mine.

(no subject)
posted by teucer on May 28th, 2008 8:15 PM

I'm pretty sure C.M. has a more exciting life than I do, also. He's hardly the only one, though.

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posted by Levitating Potato on May 28th, 2008 9:23 PM

Yes, it's Clarke's third law.

There's also the contrapositive: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

(no subject)
posted by Burn Unit on May 29th, 2008 6:19 PM

This was almost like the man that yelled to me this morning,

KAMBUSA! KAMBUSA! Give them free to all the boys!

... as he was walking steadily through the intersection. It was hard to tell if I missed something in context, or it was him that was missing.