From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4E6D72C5.1D6F0E03@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   >   
   >> rationale you gave me for doing so. Put me out in the wilderness with a   
   >> small group of like-minded people, and we will have various crude   
   >> machines and weapons to make our lives easier within a week.   
   >   
   > Like what? Steam engines?   
      
   I think the phrase "crude machines" is confusing you.  You don't make a   
   steam engine out of "stone knives and bearskins", to borrow an old Spock   
   expression.   
      
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