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Re:Breaking Superconductor News by IshKebab on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:09AM (#36889560)
But then we don't know how anything works...
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Re:Breaking Superconductor News by DonHopkins on Thursday July 27, 2023 @04:59AM (#36890817)
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Re:Breaking Superconductor News by babypuncher on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:07PM (#36895695)
But their point is we don't need a 100% complete scientific understanding of something in order to engineer it into something cool or useful.
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Re:Breaking Superconductor News by IshKebab on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:31PM (#36897160)
That is true, but it's still incorrect to say we don't understand how bicycles work.
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