20 Jun
2004
20 Jun
'04
8:25 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
A fellow technician once asked me : " If I wire
2 x 9v batteries in
parallel , will I get 4.5v or 18v ? "
... "but it's the current, not the voltage, that matters"
Who was it said that ,to earlier civilisations, high
technology would appear
to be magic ?
Not that much earlier , it would appear.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clark
". . . or a rigged demonstration"
-- George Morrow
OB_plea: Does ANYBODY have (even if you won't part with it) a copy of
"Quotations of Chairman Morrow"?