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Post by edzepp on Jul 25, 2008 7:06:41 GMT
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jul 25, 2008 7:19:27 GMT
I wonder what the heck it would take to convince Kat that the Robots do run on Etheric processes.
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Post by edzepp on Jul 25, 2008 7:28:15 GMT
Or magic ones, as she so puts it.
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Post by tetsamaru on Jul 25, 2008 7:52:11 GMT
LAUGHING ON LINE, not until shes allowed to take apart one and re-part one of the robots bodies will she be convinced that its not made of science.
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Post by walkingdust on Jul 25, 2008 7:58:34 GMT
I wonder what the heck it would take to convince Kat that the Robots do run on Etheric processes. James Randi's flummoxed seal of approval as something that can't be explainable? Now I'm wondering how reaction polymer could be used to move something as unnatural as the old robot's pelvis without giving up on the "old school" design of the joints. |
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Post by UbiquitousDragon on Jul 25, 2008 9:43:29 GMT
That's a cool little fact from Tom.  It's sort of, magic/etheric means are so present in the comic that it's not necessary to mention it. (At least that's how I read it ) |
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Post by Jabor on Jul 25, 2008 9:55:16 GMT
"Highly advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic."
Can't remember where the quote's from, just it seems applicable to this situation.
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Post by digikitty on Jul 25, 2008 10:17:54 GMT
"Highly advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic." Can't remember where the quote's from, just it seems applicable to this situation. sounds like something the Doctor said in season three of Doctor Who |
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Post by yukiakuma on Jul 25, 2008 10:40:25 GMT
"Highly advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic." Can't remember where the quote's from, just it seems applicable to this situation. sounds like something the Doctor said in season three of Doctor Who *sigh* That's Arthur C. Clarke's third law. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The Doctor was quoting him. |
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Post by todd on Jul 25, 2008 10:49:09 GMT
While Kat would probably be sceptical about anything etheric/magical in any case, her scepticism here about robots powered by magic is understandable.
Robots are traditionally high-tech, the work of science fiction rather than fantasy. The notion of a robot powered by magic (rather than a low-tech object, such as a sword, being magical or etheric) would seem like the blend of two very different (and maybe even opposed) concepts.
Fortunately, "Gunnerkrigg Court" has made its blend of fantasy (ghosts, mediums, body-possessing demons, mythological entities such as Coyote, Basil the Minotaur, and the Guides, and people turning into birds) and science fiction (the robots) convincing and harmonious.
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Post by yinglung on Jul 25, 2008 11:47:02 GMT
In my opinions, the robots are rather like golems, bound by the words in their head.
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Post by etcetera on Jul 25, 2008 13:05:41 GMT
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." - Barry Gehm
"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." - Florence Ambrose, Freefall Webcomic
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Post by wanderer on Jul 25, 2008 13:52:59 GMT
Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. ;D
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Post by etcetera on Jul 25, 2008 14:29:38 GMT
Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. ;D That made my day!!! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by mudmaniac on Jul 25, 2008 15:58:06 GMT
Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. ;D Therein lies the potential premise for a series of bestselling science fiction/fantasy novels! During all this time let us all not forget that we are now communicating with each other across an intricate mesh of light carrying tubes that span across the ocean floor and the earth's surface. |
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Post by sivdre on Jul 25, 2008 16:57:18 GMT
All technology is a mystery to me for the most part.
you say there's some magic in a tiny lense and some wires and what not capturing the first time my daughter walked. I'll believe you.
I'm not sure how we can make a camera see the same thing as an eye or how a disc of plastic can hold those images for me to see on a computer.
I understood how vinyl records were made. Vibrations. Amazing. Really is is but picture on plastic?
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Post by Tenjen on Jul 25, 2008 22:24:10 GMT
No. Unemployed norse and greek gods children are there.
Thors sons and daughters provide the flash by the way.
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Post by todd on Jul 25, 2008 22:24:31 GMT
There might be precedent for the notion of etheric-powered robots. In Greek mythology, and many other early myths and legends, there are many appearances by metal automatons which can move and even speak, such as Talos (the giant bronze man who guarded Crete from all intruders) or Hephaestus's attendants, who looked like young women but were made out of gold, in Book Eighteen of the Iliad. So there may be room for robots powered by the etheric rather than conventional machinery.
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Post by Tenjen on Jul 26, 2008 17:32:01 GMT
Fiction can easily merge magic and technology together. Runes and scripts for circuits that transfer energy and control its use is one example of such fusion.
Magic doesnt have to follow any Etherial Tenet. Not with sufficiant imagination ~_0
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Post by jimmynohands on Jul 27, 2008 20:57:41 GMT
I am irresistibly reminded of the psionic detector from Harry Harrison's Deathworld 1 - it consisted of an aerial with wires running to an amplifier consisting of symbols drawn on paper, with more wires connecting that to a display (I think; may have been audio signaller instead of a screen). Tell me that's not techno-magic. (",
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It's sort of, magic/etheric means are so present in the comic that it's not necessary to mention it. (At least that's how I read it 
