Chris Down wrote:
On 2013-08-20 18:47, Linda Walsh wrote:
If it wasn't for things doing what we don't expect, many things wouldn't be
around (aspirin, popcorn, digitalis, Rogain, & tons more... most things are
found by NOT using them they way you are directed to use them).
This is such a poor analogy that I don't even know where to begin. All of these
things are the results of then unknown physical phenomena.
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The are also the result of finding side effects that were different from
the intended purposes or area of research.
and what you are being told is that you are trying to get it
to do things that don't make any sense.
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Yeah, Galileo took observations on watching things fall and created theories and
applied the knowledge in a way totally outside what the standard dogma
said it was used for.
Just because someone is using something with a mundane usefulness doesn't mean
that it
can't be leveraged into something more interesting and more powerful than
intended.
