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Old Oct 31, 2007, 05:18 pm   #8 (permalink) (top)
Thanatos
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If I want I can learn advanced calculus or orbital physics or every detail of the human body and medicine known to science. Grammar and dictionaries in every language and more importantly people who actually speak all those languages to talk to! An English literature major would be hard; there are downloadable books to be found on the internet but most of them aren't free. Still, it could be done by somebody who knows where to look and is willing to pay for some downloadable .pdfs.

The only true impossibility I can think of is an internet-educated surgeon. There are some things you really should have direct experience with before you go out and do them, and neither the internet nor any number of textbooks are substitutes.


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