Soulkeeper wrote: > How much? ;) Heheh, we both might well not be around to collect, however!
Would you agree that we could have made this same bet, on a different subject, a few hundred years ago? I would be the one saying that, someday, someone will figure out how to get 1,260,000 pounds (the max takeoff gross weight of an Airbus A-380) of metal, people, and other materials to fly 7 miles above the earth's surface, for over 8,000 miles without falling to the earth. You would be saying that this violated all the then-known "laws" of physics and engineering, talking of monkeys, etc. etc. To be more precise (in the context of aviation), no immutable laws of physics, etc. were really violated, but theretofore unknown laws (aerodynamics in particular) were discovered by a few of those same intrepid monkeys pounding away at their typewriters. And they took those new "laws" (which, of course, continued to evolve) and combined them with the old "laws" to create something that has, since, defied all the best knowledge of that former time. I agree that, in the micro-context, Triode, soundcheck,et al probably did have a clue about what they were up to, but I can't profess to know what was in their minds, nor if either of them tried something that they were pretty sure wouldn't work, tried it anyway, and found that, contrary to all their assumptions, it did. However, in the more macro-context, say a few hundred years, I'll take that bet any time! I'll direct my estate to accept the contribution from your estate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rgro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94770 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
