Dude, who even knows.
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zexreborn asked:
Many sciences of the past claimed to be able to transmute lead into gold. Then nuclear physics came around. And a particle collider was constructed that could actually do so. There were many, many failed flying machines before kitty hawk. Many, many more inadequate or useless cures for smallpox, before we invented the vaccine. One-dimensional pattern recognition of the sort you’ve offered so far would put you on the wrong side of all three.
And yet.
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kontextmaschine said:
@zexreborn I’ve flown. And yet. 
zexreborn said:
Can you drive to an airport and fly to Dubai?
The point here is that one-dimensional pattern recognition - ‘lots of people said they could do the immortality thing, and they couldn’t,” is answered by one-dimensional pattern analysis - “lots of people said they could do the flight thing, and couldn’t, but then someone did.” - kontextmaschine said:
@zexreborn are you immortal?
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- zexreborn said:
And yetsmallpox is gone and I can fly across the world in hours?
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Many sciences of the past claimed to be able to transmute lead into gold. Then nuclear physics came around. And a...