On Oct 5, 10:28*pm, "Sal M. Onella"
wrote:
"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message

treetonline...

Sal M. Onella wrote:.

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If all the money the Air Force could throw at a problem didn't come up
with
some magic, do we have a lot of hope???

Hope for what? Magic?

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By "magic" I meant the development of technology that was heretofore
unidentified, not some false illusion by a conjurer. * *I agree with the
essential need for "clever application of established theory ... [etc]" * as
you so eloquently stated.

In that sense, the IC was magic. *(Sorry if I seem to liken technology too
much to magic.)

If the USAF crew all read the same books before their journey then
they all had the same experience many times over.
What it takes is imagination and the will to deviate from the well
trodden paths where different experiences and views
empower men to challenge the old based on experiences that others have
not travelled. It then takes a generation
for those that failed and snarled at the new to leave the scene so
that later research turns up the more recent past
and thus reinvents the wheel. Einstien left classical physics because
he could not find the key for the Universal laws
and probed into the science of relativity purely to gain a different
perspective or view of the former problem which required
a move away from the well trodden path to get the answer.
Unfortunately he died before finding the answer but was on the right
track
in not assuming that all was known because of the high number of
failures before him who all trod the same path and arrived at the same
destination.