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Originally posted by Pimander
reply to post by DontTreadOnMe
Oh no! Now we have to try to find the last post that was actually about the thread topic. If anyone can find it, would you mind quoting it here so we can continue the discussion.
edit on 29/1/12 by Pimander because: (no reason given)
SOURCE: garry.posterous.com...
Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction:
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Just as 640k isn't really enough for anyone (Bill Gates in the 80's), and the global market for computers is definitely greater than 5 (Thomas Watson of IBM in the 50's) -- so is it that predicting the future of technology is hard as heck.
So hard, in fact, that the world's foremost experts fail routinely at prediction.
Clarke's third law is probably the most well known, but his first and second I find to be the most useful for anyone who is creative and wants to invent and affect the future in profound ways. To create what seemed to be impossible is truly the essence of an innovative, valuable act.
Originally posted by boncho
It was right here. The next few posts show the entire thread is bunk.
NASA didn't confirm anything, besides that they were working on lenr research. Which is no secret.
In other words, just about every post in this thread is off topic. And it should have been scrapped.
originally posted by: GetHyped
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
Is this technology the reason for the big oil drop?
No.
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
Well, something has oil spooked. A drop in demand worldwide of 2% to 3% doesn't translate into an over 50% drop in the price of a commodity even baking some speculative money into the higher price which has also fled. An energy breakthrough would be a great reason.
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
originally posted by: GetHyped
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
Is this technology the reason for the big oil drop?
No.
Well, something has oil spooked. A drop in demand worldwide of 2% to 3% doesn't translate into an over 50% drop in the price of a commodity even baking some speculative money into the higher price which has also fled.
An energy breakthrough would be a great reason.