[Foundation-l] Stategic planning : Sharing textbook knowledge

[David Goodman]

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 at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> 2009/5/7 Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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 at dunelm.org.uk
>
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