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From: Stogryn.ES@XEROX.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: unbreakable laws
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Date: Tue, 22-May-84 13:04:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 13:04:00 1984
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     >>  The plausibility is the same as for FTL, thiotimoline,
     >>  and the radio in Galileo's day - impossibly small *at
     >>  this time*.  Later on, who knows?

     > <sputter sputter foof>
     > FTL is *IMPOSSIBLE*   DO YOU HEAR ME????
     > YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE AT MAKING A PERPETUAL MOTION
     > MACHINE THAN YOU HAVE AT MAKING AN FTL DRIVE!!!!
     > <foof sputter sputter>
     > I find it somewhat humorous (in a sick sort of way) that people
     > who are supposed to be as intelligent as SF readers, can totally
     > ignore the findings of Einstein -- without even bothering to
     > read or understand them.
     > What Einstein discovered, is a new (UNBREAKABLE) law. . .

I,  on the other hand, find it somewhat humorous that people who are
supposed to be as intelligent as SF readers, can shut "their" minds to
new ideas - not dream of their possibilities with the expectation that
some day science will find a way to over come those incontrovertible
facts based on unbreakable laws.  Mankind has always made laws and
checked them against the facts. 
** Man can not fly; it's impossible -  try it. You're just not lighter
than air.
** The world is flat - just look down or try sailing off in "that"
direction and see if you ever come back.
** The earth is the center of the universe - See, the stars revolve
around it.
These were facts base on unbreakable laws made by and agreed upon by all
of the scholars of their time.

Steve