Totally OT, but frustrated.....

[Wai-Sun Chia]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:58:25 -0800 (PST), "Dwight K. Elvey"
<dwight.elvey at amd.com> wrote:
> 
> >From: "Bill Girnius" <thedm at sunflower.com>
> >
> >It's not entirely out of the question, after all, how many of you have the
> 
> >knowledge of metalurgy to make any metal tool from say... the Bronze age,
> or 
> >Iron, or make gun powder, sure you know what's in it, but can you obtain
> the 
> >raw materials, and build the contraption that they used to make it?
> 
>  Let me see, volcanic vent for the yellow stuff. Fireplace
> for the black stuff.
>  Need some horses and some soil with a high potassium content
> for the white stuff.
>  Nothing real difficult. I think in a pinch ( with my car ) I
> could find these things.
>  Still, it is true that as technology gets more complicated,
> it takes quite a few people with knowledge in specific areas
> to create the complete item.
> Dwight
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