From: "Frank Q" 
To: "Bob Walker" ,
        "ATM Group" 
Reply-To: "Frank Q" 


Hi All

 if YOU were plopped down in the wilderness, given food and shelter
> and nothing else,

All I would be able to do is eat the food, live in the shelter and do
nothing else !!!!!

Cheers
Frank Q

From: "Bob Walker" 

>
> A fascinating concept, something I've thought about for decades.  Just
> think, if YOU were plopped down in the wilderness, given food and shelter
> and nothing else, how long would it take you to make a [insert name of
> technological miracle here]?  Okay, you know how to make a telescope and
> everything in it.  Even if you didn't have to devote any time to staying
> alive, how long would it take to find sand, clean it, make a hot enough
fire
> to melt it, cast it into a slab, find appropriate minerals to use as
> grinding agents, polishing agents, gather pine sap to make into usable
> pitch.....oh, yeah, and make the TOOLS it takes to do simple things like
> drill a hole in a piece of wood....makes "A Connecticut Yankee in King
> Arthur's Court"  look like a cakewalk.
>
>  *  Best regards, Bob
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