Re: Fear the prospects of a new Elric movie

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:48:16 GMT, "Bradd W. Szonye" <bradd+news@xxxxxxxxxx>
scribed into the ether:

>Bradd wrote:
>>> The latter should've been "water in the Sahara." But even as written you
>>> can draw very different conclusions; snow and ice have different
>>> physical properties. You're oversimplifying.
>
>Kevin Lowe wrote:
>> It's a bit much accusing Wasp of intellectual dishonesty when you are
>> making arguments like this. Gee, ice has different physical properties
>> than water does ....
>
>Good grief, could you miss the point any more thoroughly?
>
>Liquid water, ice, snow, and steam are all the same substance, water.

They are made of the same materials, but that doesn't make them the same
substance. Put a piece of meat in the oven, and it will fundamentally
change even though the atoms it is made of are no different. Pencil lead
and diamonds are both made of carbon, but they are quite dissimilar.

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