[OT] [I mean totally OT] Re: What can you "new"

[Walter Bright]

BCS wrote:
> No it does contain that knowledge. Assume, it has the totally recorded 
> knowledge of earth, wikipidia + googel books + gotenberg + dusty tomes 
> in the back of some monetary. The point is what if knowledge is not a 
> limiting factor?

That's *recorded* knowledge. A lot of knowledge never gets recorded. For 
example, many people have tried to recreate medieval trebuchets. All 
they've got is a couple of crappy drawings, and so they had to guess and 
invent to fill in a lot of blanks.

Damascus steel is a famous example.

Anyone who has tried to recreate medieval or ancient technology from 
recorded documents has found that an awful lot of fairly crucial 
information was left out.