The Dragon In My Garage

In my daily surfing I found this great article The Dragon In My Garage by the excellent Carl Sagan.

Now based on that we can finally solve the issue of the Guy he listens X-Rays and sees ultrasound. For the ones not familiar with the subject here is a small recap. A while ago Ricardo was reading a book call Blindsight. In it one character (not even a secondary) was able to listen to X-Rays and see ultrasound, thru some implants that made him a Cyborg this develop a Holy war, with a smaller magnitude then the fact that vi kicks emacs ass.

One sides argument was that the only way that could ever be possible is that the implants let him transform the x-rays and ultrasound into something perceivable, for example it will emit a different sound for each length of the x-ray and therefore by relating sounds to lengths he could understand the patterns. But that the actual thing was not possible. The other sides argument was simple; the fact that it is not possible now doesn’t means it can’t be possible in the future. And I think Carl Sagan was on this side

What do you think?