17th April 2005, 7:29 AM
But do you have EVIDENCE that the culture would assume it's magic? In such a scenario, is it not possible they might also want to examine the weapons logically? Look, anything that is going to be stated as law has to have some PROOF. You can't just state "well of COURSE they would think it's magic" without it. The English ran into the Native Americans with amazing technology, and they didn't immediatly drop to their knees and worship us. Rather, pretty quickly, they adapted their firearms and such into their own strategy.
People today still use magic tricks that can amaze people. Some people DO assume it to be magic, but there are others for whom logic dictates their interpretation of events. They prefer to assume mundane explanations over the magical. Since humans are pretty much the same now as they ever were, I should think such people have always been around.
People today still use magic tricks that can amaze people. Some people DO assume it to be magic, but there are others for whom logic dictates their interpretation of events. They prefer to assume mundane explanations over the magical. Since humans are pretty much the same now as they ever were, I should think such people have always been around.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)