On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Richard Lawson wrote:

Ranma Al'Thor wrote:

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Richard Lawson wrote:

So, if you're willing to suspend you disbelief enough on this one point,
does it work for you?

No.

Dang, I can't write fast enough.  As I'm responding to one of your
essays, you're writing more.  Should I feel flattered that I arouse such
passions in you?  :)

I'm just cool and on line at night :)
 

So you're right; magic doesn't hold up to well to scientific scrutiny. 
It's times like these that I fall back on Arthur C. Clarke's old adage: 
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Ten years isn't enough for me to do that, unfortunately :)
 

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