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minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·18 hours agoWe have rocks that do math, transmit electricity, and fly us through the sky. When you get reductive about the natural sciences it all just boils down to applied physics which is applied mathematics. But engineering and technology? Applied geology. (/s because I’m not going to acknowledge that geology is applied chemistry and so on)
minus-squareBastingChemina@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·14 hours agoYou have to engrave special runes on these rocks for them to work. I heard that some wizards on the remote island of Tayouan far east are very good at it.
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 hours agoReminds me of https://xkcd.com/435/
minus-squareZink@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoHaha exactly. I remember thinking about science hierarchy or levels of abstraction way back in high school, but I’m glad that (like so many things) xkcd perfectly documented it.
We have rocks that do math, transmit electricity, and fly us through the sky.
When you get reductive about the natural sciences it all just boils down to applied physics which is applied mathematics.
But engineering and technology? Applied geology.
(/s because I’m not going to acknowledge that geology is applied chemistry and so on)
You have to engrave special runes on these rocks for them to work.
I heard that some wizards on the remote island of Tayouan far east are very good at it.
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/435/
Haha exactly.
I remember thinking about science hierarchy or levels of abstraction way back in high school, but I’m glad that (like so many things) xkcd perfectly documented it.