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- From: bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendleton)
- Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: clarke's law
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.011615.21346@hal.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 01:16:15 GMT
- References: <L_A=lF#@engin.umich.edu>
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- From article <L_A=lF#@engin.umich.edu>, by hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig):
- > In article <1992Nov4.220319.29777@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
- >
- >>Someone recently posted Clarke's law. The one about
- >>if a senior scientist says possible he's probably right,
- >>if he says impossible he's probably wrong.
- >>
- >>Could you e-mail me the exact quotation? I need to cite it
- >>in a paper and don't want to go digging in the library.
- >>
- >>Thanks.
- >>--
- >>Thomas Clarke
- >>Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
- >>12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826
- >>(407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu
- >>
- >>no relation
- >
- > Funny, the one I learned as "Clarke's Law" is:
- >
- > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- >
- > --
- > Kurt Hillig
- > Dept. of Chemistry khillig@umich.edu
- > University of Michigan Telephone (313)747-2867
- > Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055 hillig@chem.lsa.umich.edu
-
- Clarke is allowed to have many laws. Both of these are known as
- "Clarke's Law."
-
-
- --
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