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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8293964" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Yeah... but you aren't taking the years and years of training to <em>design</em> the guns and the years and years needed to <em>produce</em> the hundreds of guns you need to give to those men into account in your comparison.</p><p></p><p>If you start at the exact same time and have two separate tracks going... one is taking a prototype design for a "pistol" and then going through the entire process of learning how to design them, figure out how to make ammo, figure out how what is gunpowder and how do you make it and make large quantities of it, put all the pieces of the pistol together to make sure the whole thing actually works and fires, get the process of manufacturing down to build a hundred of these "pistols", and then train one hundred people on how to load, shoot, clean, and repair these pistols... and the other is taking 100 smart men and women and then sitting them down to teach them how to do magic and to eventually cast the lightning bolt spell...</p><p></p><p>...you probably wouldn't be too far off in terms of total length of time. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8293964, member: 7006"] Yeah... but you aren't taking the years and years of training to [I]design[/I] the guns and the years and years needed to [I]produce[/I] the hundreds of guns you need to give to those men into account in your comparison. If you start at the exact same time and have two separate tracks going... one is taking a prototype design for a "pistol" and then going through the entire process of learning how to design them, figure out how to make ammo, figure out how what is gunpowder and how do you make it and make large quantities of it, put all the pieces of the pistol together to make sure the whole thing actually works and fires, get the process of manufacturing down to build a hundred of these "pistols", and then train one hundred people on how to load, shoot, clean, and repair these pistols... and the other is taking 100 smart men and women and then sitting them down to teach them how to do magic and to eventually cast the lightning bolt spell... ...you probably wouldn't be too far off in terms of total length of time. :) [/QUOTE]
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