News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects. Parent comment

Re:Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects by tsukikage on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:15AM (#18959541)
I, too, wish to know how to make wasps leave the premises with some hand motions
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects by mcv on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:21AM (#18961337)
You make it sound like a magic Repel Insects spell.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects by emiliobumachar on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:27PM (#18961853)
Sufficiently advanced technology.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Body-painting protects against bloodsucking insects by Nomentatus on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:04PM (#18964459)
This comment applies so profoundly to the original article, doesn't it - the body painting was too advanced for European understanding, so it was taken to be magic in the useless, mere superstition sense of that term. Not quite what Mr. A. C. Clarke meant to point to, but it fills out the meaning behind his point and buttresses it, in my mind.
[ Parent | on HN ]