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11. "RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4"
In response to message #8
 
   >>At this point I'm halfway convinced that it's not so much a
>>screwdriver as a backdoor hack into Yggdrasil's systems, giving him
>>limited admin privileges, that he just disguised as a sonic
>>screwdriver.
>
>Within the UF context, I wouldn't be surprised if much of the Time
>Lords' technology operated that way. Gryphon did say something at
>some point about the Doctor being a really firm believer in the
>converse of Clarke's Law (i.e. the notion that there might be
>apparently-magical phenomena that even a Time Lord could not
>unravel by application of scientific method is repugnant to him).
>However, several of the stories have commented that Gallifreyan tech
>seems magical, and that much of it was developed very long ago
>and/or by people who weren't interested in reproducibility (yeah, I'm
>looking at you, Omega), and they're no longer sure how it works
>themselves. So maybe they're hooked into the debugger APIs without
>knowing it.

I prefer Agatha's Counterpoint to Clarke's Law:

Mario


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 (OOTR-12) TFLF Volume 1 [View All] Gryphonadmin Sep-28-14 TOP
   RE: (OOTR-12-0-1) TFLF Chapters 0, 1 Meagen Oct-02-14 1
      RE: (OOTR-12-0-1) TFLF Chapters 0, 1 Verbena Oct-08-14 3
   RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-3 Peter Eng Oct-08-14 2
      RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-3 ebony14 Oct-09-14 4
   RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4 Silversword Oct-10-14 5
   RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4 Peter Eng Oct-12-14 6
      RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4 Bushido Oct-12-14 7
          RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4 zwol Oct-12-14 8
              RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4 Croaker Oct-12-14 9
                  RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4 SpottedKitty Oct-13-14 10
             RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4 mdg1 Oct-19-14 11
                  RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4 Bushido Oct-19-14 12
                      RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-4 mdg1 Oct-19-14 13
   RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-5 ebony14 Oct-20-14 14
      RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-5 Peter Eng Oct-20-14 15
   RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-7 ebony14 Nov-03-14 16
   RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-8 Croaker Nov-08-14 17
      RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-8 Gryphonadmin Nov-08-14 18
          RE: (OOTR-12) TFLF Chapters 0-8 Croaker Nov-10-14 19


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