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Frankly I  enjoy both 'just winging it' (hey, isn't that why ancient tech is *really* for? ;-) ), & also reading attempts to 'rationalize' the TU. After all, not all of the sci-fi writers were "hacks, etc." but it's also true that their knowledge was woefully ignorant by cureent standards. However, I suspect that 100 years from now scientists will look back on us in a similar manner that we do wrt scientists 100 years ago & say something like, "they did well with what they had but they just didn't know what we do today".
I've often wondered how a conversation 'tween Sir Isaac Newton & a time-travelling current-day high school physics student would go when the subject of relativity came up...

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On Sat, 8/22/15, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Exploring neutronium
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Saturday, August 22, 2015, 4:02 AM

 On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at
 12:16:09AM -0700, Kelly St. Clair wrote:
 > But hey, if you honestly have nothing
 better to do than spend hours
 > trying to
 make sense of some technobabble [...]

 No, I honestly don't.  However, that's
 not at all the reason why I
 made my post,
 and I'm pretty sure you know that given that I have
 described my motivations for such posts in this
 list at least twice
 before.

 - Tim
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