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LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We have rocks that do math, transmit electricity, and fly us through the sky.

  When you get reductive about the natural sciences it all just boils down to applied physics which is applied mathematics.

  But engineering and technology? Applied geology.

  (/s because I’m not going to acknowledge that geology is applied chemistry and so on)

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  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You have to engrave special runes on these rocks for them to work.

    I heard that some wizards on the remote island of Tayouan far east are very good at it.

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  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In a sense, you’re right. And there’s a bit of magic involved. If you cut a certain special rock into slices, engrave runes on one side of it, and inject lightning, the rock starts to think. I don’t see how you can describe that as anything other than magic.

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  • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Reminds me of xkcd.com/435/

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Haha exactly.

      I remember thinking about science hierarchy or levels of abstraction way back in high school, but I’m glad that (like so many things) xkcd perfectly documented it.

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• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sometimes we take the hot rocks and ship them to other planets too.

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