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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 251881" data-attributes="member: 1125">Or, perhaps more importantly, why haven't they invented gunpowder, the printing press, physics, calculus, hot air balloons, economics, steam engines,electricity,gatling gunsine, lightbulbs, powered flight, lasersActually all these things were (suppossedly) created by various ancient - medieval socieites on Earth. the ancient Greeks had steam-engines, Egyptians used electricity (mainly for displays of 'divine power'), Medieval Japan had multifire guns (of a sort). The Arc of the Covenant may have been a nuclear power generator! As for Powered Flight its only a L3 spell<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> and Fireball makes a convincing Laserrelativity theory, nuclear weapons,artificial heartsWell these are actually cultural phenomena as much as science/technology. Relativity theory was a flash of inspiration which obviously none of the Elves has yet got, Nuclear weapons are a direct result of Rutherfords splitting of the atom which relies on an Atom theory (which the elves may not in fact have developed)Same with medicine Perhaps the elves still beleive Disease is caused by evil spirits and the heart is the seat of emotions. gasoline,  railroads,  cameras, nitroglycer ,  radio, phonographs, internal combustion engines, automobiles, X-rays, plastics, turbojets, refrigeration, combine harvesters, cathode-ray tubes, computers, space flight, transistors, microwave ovens, Again culture and the underlying assumptions behind it will serve to limit what is possible. Plus if neccisity is the mother of invention then in a high magic society much invention wont be neccessary (why travel by car when you can teleport)</blockquote>

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