[HPforGrownups] Re: Plumbing, Electricity, Wizarding Teabags? and muggle inventions

[summers.65 at osu.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 1603


>Maybe it ISN'T environmentally sustainable. Larry Niven has written
>some sort-of-sword-&-sorcery stories in a universe in which magic
>works by consuming a natural energy source named 'mana'. Mana, like
>many natural resources, seems to come from the earth and is located
>in geographical places. If wizards do enough magic in one place, all
>the mana there will be used us, and magic will no longer work there.
>Magic no longer works in our world because the wizards of previous
>ages used up all the mana that ever was on Earth.
>
>(Didn't I say all the same things about plumbing and electricity that
>you just said?)
>
This is off the subject, but I had a very frustrating conversation with
someone recently who was very concerned that we were using up all the water
on the planet.  I attempted to explain to him that the amount of water on
this planet essentially does not change, but he wouldn't believe me.

Don't they teach science in high school anymore?

Lori


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