[Mkguild] MKGuild Digest, Vol 104, Issue 5

[Bryce Glover]

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>   2. Re: Special Delivery?!? (C. Matthias)
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> From: "C. Matthias" <jagille3 at vt.edu>
> Date: November 12, 2015 at 10:13:05 PM EST
> To: Kamau <jc2blion at taconic.net>, mkguild at lists.integral.org
> Subject: Re: [Mkguild] Special Delivery?!?
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> Kamau,
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> I referred to that meteor strike in a few of my stories, but I had it just south of the mountains separating the Valley from the Giant Downs.  I apologize for misunderstanding where you wanted that set.
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> As for Bryce’s idea, I’m sure that both mages and scholars would study what they find, …

     Right.  

> …but I seriously doubt they could reverse engineer anything they find given their technological era.  …

At least, not without documentation, they couldn’t!  

> …There are just certain things about our technology, even with magic as an aid, that would not be possible for them to accomplish, although I’m sure it would give them lots of ideas and would advance their technology in certain directions.
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> May He bless you and keep you in His grace and love,
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> Charles Matthias
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Given what I said to Kamau about Metamor’s overly advanced state of technological development for its time in my reply to him, I don’t think it would be entirely impossible for one of its inhabitants to understand what he or she found in a space probe if one just happened to land near the keep.  Oh, sure, it would be very difficult and take a lot of patience, hard work, and perseverance (not to mention just plain old obsession,) to do it — it would, in fact, be akin to bringing a Galileo who has only just considered doing the experiments for which he is remembered by history up to speed on modern physics by turning him loose on the Internet — but, like I implied above and hinted at in my reply to Kamau, it wouldn’t, given an obvious information-access mechanism, be completely impossible.  That being said, I’d have to agree with you that the odds of this happening are still relatively low under Metamor’s current circumstances.  

— RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly

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> At 07:16 AM 11/12/2015, Kamau wrote:
>> This sounds like something more fit for the 2K version of Metamor then for the standard Metamor Keep. As for impacts of an object from space there is a story in progress (Yes, I know it's been sitting there for a couple years) that has such an impact to the northwest of Glen Avery in the Giant Downs.  It should be hiding in out group files somewhere.
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>> Kamau
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>> On 11/11/2015 4:12 PM, Bryce Glover wrote:
>>>     How do you guys think the denizens of Metamor Keep might react if they saw a meteorite land on their metaphorical doorstep and then, when they sent somebody out to go look at it, they found out it was a human space probe from either a version of Earth parallel to their own or (much less likely, given that Metamorian ephemerises include other planets in our solar system) another, extrasolar planet in their own universe?  Would they try to reverse-engineer it while also scrutinizing any information stored in its memory banks for clues as to where it came from and what the culture is like at its point of origin, or would they not even touch it with a mile-long pole?
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>>> Curious,
>>>     RandomDSdevel/WhenCatsFoxesandWolvesFly
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