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- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!news.bbn.com!ingria
- From: ingria@bbn.com (Bob Ingria)
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
- Subject: Re: Scientists & inventions
- Followup-To: /dev/null/
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:25:51 GMT
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- Message-ID: <lji0sfINNb9l@news.bbn.com>
- References: <42523@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <Bz9I3t.8p7@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: ingria@BBN.COM
- NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com
- In-reply-to: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk's message of 14 Dec 92 18:31:04 GMT
-
- In article <Bz9I3t.8p7@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
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- What keeps urban legends like this alive is the popular ignorance of the
- interconnectedness of science and technology. Most people just don't see
- bicycle pumps, refrigerators, weather systems and gasoline engines as
- falling under the same general abstraction and accordingly think that each
- is a separate phenomenon with its own autonomous laws. If people realized
- that the weather forecasts they use every day or the design of wings to
- lift planes off the ground depended on a unifying theory that ruled out
- magic gas-saving gadgets, they might be bit more skeptical about the
- latter.
-
- So, they finally got to you, too, didn't they?
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- Bob Ingria
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