Quote:If she had said "One man's science is another man's magic" ,I would had snarked.
"You're saying that magic is real," said an anonymous voice from the crowd.
"I am saying," the lady Admiral said in an even tone which implicitly but strongly discouraged further interruptions, "that there is a natural phenomenon whose practical applications may and have been conveniently referred to by that title, yes. Those sciences never evolved on Earth because your local interaction threshold is sufficiently high to be outside the reach of all but a small fraction of untrained individuals - literally less than a thousandth of a percent. More, spontaneously developing the ability to perceive such things is even rarer, making a combination of both traits a statistical impossibility.
A good example would had been dropping a modern jet liner during the late Iron Age in China or Israel.
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