Re: [DL] Mad Scientists' Inspiration *spoilers*

[Munch Wolf <munchwolf@yahoo.com>]

--- Grand Master Nilus of the Dark Angel Chapter
<grandmasternilus@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > s
> > > p
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> > > i
> > > l
> > > e
> > > r
> > > .
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> > > .
> > > .
> >It seems to me that this suggests that a Manitou
> drops a bucket of 
> >Inspiration (for lack of a better phrase) on a MS,
> hoping that, THIS time, 
> >he'll invent the G-bomb (or something leading to
> it).
> >
> >Does this sound reasonable? I must admit, I like
> this idea far better than 
> >simply having the Manitou tell the MS what to
> build. It has the added 
> >attraction of the MS dooming humanity out of his
> own ingenuity.
> >
> I kinda see it like this
> 
> The Problem is since the Manitou can't understand
> Technoloy(They are the 
> wrong kind of spirits), they just send inspiration
> at random back through 
> history.  Thats why Mad Scientist invent all sorts
> of things.  Also since 
> the Manitou just sends this raw data back, your
> average 19th century 
> scientist isn't going to understand most of it,  So
> he might just understand 
> a small portion of the what he saw and end up using
> that insite to make 
> something completely different.

I agree, Manitous don't understand technology, so they
don't know that it's the G-bomb they're looking for. 
They were looking for something that had it's
potential, and when it was discovered, they didn't
need to look anymore.

Course, I always imagined manitous had a more active
role in making the items function (similar to
'magic').

-MW


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