Space Time and Magic (from Main List)

[Jeanine Banthorpe]

 Is the inference of Fred Hoyle's reference to the Boeing 747 and the junkyard really a statistical impossibility - or just very very improbable? (says she with a light-hearted sideways look at the Infinite Impossibility Drive fitted to the Heart of Gold.)
 
The reference to Arthur C Clarke's 'Third Law' Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic is a useful point - thank you for including it. It fits neatly with Potioncat's comment that
 
>But, by the same token...it's someone saying "Wouldn't it be neat if 
>we could.....(go to the moon) (carry phones around with us)...(time 
>travel)..... " that makes other people say, "Yes, and let's see how to 
>do it."


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