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- From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
- Subject: Re: Clarke's Laws
- References: <1992Dec21.220441.16939@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> <1992Dec21.231037.22046@wl.com> <1992Dec23.171854.8076@walter.bellcore.com>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:52:39 GMT
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- Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
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- offordj@wl.com (Jim Offord) writes:
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- > Dr. Jim Offord |Any sufficiently advanced technology
- > Dept. of Biotechnology |is indistinguishable from magic.
- > Parke-Davis | Arthur Clarke's Third Law
- > offordj@wl.com |Opinions? Those babies are all mine.
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- Who was it that came up with the following spin on Clarke's Third Law?
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- Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable
- from technology.
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- I think it's either Niven or Pournelle....
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- Seth L. Blumberg \ Warning: This posting has been determined to cause
- slb22@columbia.edu (play) \ cancer in laboratory animals. Please make sure
- sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ that no white mice are allowed to read it.
- > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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