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peregrine:

--- Quote from: groinkick on November 03, 2018, 07:09:34 PM ---Physics isn't entirely understood, and magic is considered a really advanced technology.  100 years ago going into space was impossible, now it's not.

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Because of engineering, not because of physics.

groinkick:

--- Quote from: peregrine on November 03, 2018, 09:52:35 PM ---Because of engineering, not because of physics.

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Engineering depends on the knowledge obtained from physics.  I made two separate arguments, not one.  One was relating to physics, and Harry, the other was on what was once considered impossible no longer being so. 

morriswalters:
The only reason the Chinese didn't shoot Marco Polo to the moon is because gunpowder is rotten rocket fuel.

Just Al:

--- Quote ---You can't shape or throw heat.
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That's not exactly true. Magnetic fields can shape plasma (fire is low energy plasma) Superheated gasses and liquids can be thrown. Fire is just the most common form.
Similarly when Harry uses "Infriga" he's moving heat out of an object/area. In one case (White Night?) Where he drew heat from Lake Michigan and used it to fry (I'm blanking on whom)

morriswalters:
He uses fire to freeze the lake for an escape.  He does something similar in Proven Guilty, freezing water on a street.
--- Quote from: me --- We also can't generate confined plasma's like Harry is able to do.  If we could fusion power wouldn't always be 40 years away.  :'(
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Since we agree, nuff said. :)

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