re: #170 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I finally found the thread. (…ironically, from someone bitching that he doesn’t show enough empathy over the poor cows. Which …okay…)

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from the replies to that thread:

“The difference between technology and magic is that technology works regardless of whether you believe in it or not.”
“So computers are magic?”
“Computers are magic.”

— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) April 10, 2020

but of course:

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
— Arthur C. Clarke

also, Clarke’s First Law:

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.