Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5448649" data-attributes="member: 19675">I was going to bring up Clarke's Third Law.Knowing the difference between supernatural and super science is a meta thing we readers/viewers have the luxury of perceiving.  Suspecting the difference between supernatural and super science is about the best someone in the situation can do.And Hatian zombies Provide a perfect example.  For the hundreds of years that they've been around, Hatian zombies were assumed to be supernatural, and why not?  The people they were made from were declared dead by the best methods available, then buried.  We now know that- assuming the stories of their existence are true- it's really just a case of sophisticated and unsuspected pharmacology.  IOW, technology instead of magic.If today some normal-looking Average Joe showed up and was able to increase their size proportionately to 40' tall, sprout skeletal bat wings and fly, and then walk through a wall as if it were mist with no detectable apparatus, most of us would probably conclude it had to be magic.  Even James Randi.And 30,000 years in the future, when all that is possible via the latest Apple lifestyle gadget, they'd mock us for not understanding simple physics.</blockquote>