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To: Paul Engel who wrote (68372)	11/11/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Paul, However, the computer is no substitute for intelligence and basic skills. Some facts about the discovery of Pluto at the Lowell Observatory. This 24-inch refracting telescope was purchased by Percival Lowell for $20,000 in 1896. The 32-foot long telescope is housed in its original dome. The dome is made entirely of native ponderosa pine and was built in ten days by ten men - in a time without power tools! lowell.edu Percival Lowell spent about 10 years doing hand calculations of the predicted position of "Planet X". On a PC he could have done those same calculations in less than one second. You can get stuff done without power tools and computers, but it sure is a lot faster with them. After all, you've got the most expensive collection of power tools in the world. ;^)) Just think how much fun the bomb designers at Los Alamos must be having with their supercomputer and Infinite Reality graphics. They haven't been able to blow up a real bomb in about 5 years ;^(( Imagine what Einstein could do on that supercomputer, if SGI added non-Euclidian geometry perspective to OpenGL. Scumbria

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