The best discussion of the entire problem that I know is in Mc
Caffrey's All the Weyrs of Pern.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
2009/5/7 Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
Certainly not zero. Perhaps 10%? Neither
textbooks nor wikipedia are
normally designed to give a total soup-to-nuts explanation of how to
do something.
Ha.
[[Wikibooks:Constructing an Industrial Civilisation from Scratch]].
==Chapter 1: on flint nodules==
(...)
==Chapter 307: smelting copper==
(...)
==Chapter 87,823: the basics of nuclear fission==
(...)
I love it as an intellectual exercise, but the plausible *utility* of
the whole thing might be open to question!
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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