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scantrontb wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:

KnightDelight wrote:The more I hear from the Library, the more it seems like a machine. I mean, energy probes? Detectors? It may have a degree of sentience, but it stills seems to be a machine.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke

"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it".
-- Florence Ambrose (Freefall)

Friend of mine - a top stage technician who often helped corporations create presentations for trade shows (his story about having to create a shipping crate that "... looked more like a shipping crate than a real shipping crate ..." for an IBM product introduction was priceless) had a button that said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."

scantrontb wrote:

Jabberwonky wrote:

KnightDelight wrote:The more I hear from the Library, the more it seems like a machine. I mean, energy probes? Detectors? It may have a degree of sentience, but it stills seems to be a machine.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke

"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it".
-- Florence Ambrose (Freefall)

"Whales speak French at the bottom of the sea!" (Little Big Man)

Atomic wrote:"Whales speak French at the bottom of the sea!" (Little Big Man)

I knew there was reason not to trust those sum-bitches...

Personally, I never trust atoms. They make up everything.

[drops a few molecules into the Pun-ticle Accelerator]

MerchManDan wrote:Personally, I never trust atoms. They make up everything.

[drops a few molecules into the Pun-ticle Accelerator]

Are you pro-trons? Or neutral towards them and neutrons too?
(I do get a quantum of charge out of such little things, don't I?)

adds a quantum chromodynamics chart for the jar