Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Hear, Hear to Peter Mikes Message-ID: <591@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 18:44:29 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.591 Posted: Mon Aug 12 18:44:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:37:07 EDT References: <466@sri-arpa.ARPA> <161@prometheus.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 21 In article <161@prometheus.UUCP> pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc) writes: > HOWEVER, [the laser] was ENVISIONED long before it was invented. >Take Flash Gordon movies and their use of the laser-like "death ray!". It is easy to imagine a death ray. The idea has undoubtably occurred independently to many people. There are many possible inventions which could match this idea: lasers, particle beams, flamethrowers, etc. This is about as much of a coincidence as the fact that you and my uncle are both named Paul. >ANOTHER example of general precognition (telepathy with the future?) >would be the Dick Tracy wrist televideo "watch". This is even less of a coincidence. All you need to know to predict the two-way wrist television is that eventually, electronic components will get small enough to build one. This was not obvious at the time, but it was certainly plausible. As I remember it, Dick Tracy also had vehicles shaped like flying saucers, which were used to visit the moon, where the dwellers were humanoids with antennae.