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Yeah, because things we know very little about always turn out to be easier than thought.

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > things we know very little about always turn out to be easier than thought I mean, yes. Sometimes. Wrap this rock in a wire and you’ll have a radio is not exactly what you’d expect.
  • soperj 2y ago
    go on....
    • tuatoru 2y ago
      Nuclear fusion would be the canonical case. Closer to home, making cars self-driving, and making actually useful pedestrian robots are good examples of "easier than we thought" too.
  • Nifty3929 2y ago
    Pretty sure you made GP's point here. Wrapping a wire around a rock does not yield a radio.
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > Pretty sure you made GP's point here. Wrapping a wire around a rock does not yield a radio It's a tongue-in-cheek description of a crystal radio [1]. If anything, most technology is developed before we understand how it works. Theory driving application is a somewhat recent phenomenon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio