On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 12:28:54AM +0800, HaJo Schatz wrote: > On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 00:09, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Fr, den 03.09.2004 schrieb Deepak Oberoi um 16:08: > > > > > crystal ball? > > > > That is the magic ball of glass, fortune tellers commonly use to tell > > you things. > ROTFL! You _DO_ know everything, don't you? ;-) Well almost everything ;-) A crystal ball is and was just that, a crystal ball. They preceded glass as we know it by a very long time. Commonly the crystal was quartz. A sphere would be ground and polished by hand in a trough of wood or stone. Crystals large enough and clear enough are not common so a crystal ball would be a rare and precious thing. yea magical.... Today glass balls are commonly sold as crystal balls but they are opaque to the future and only frauds use them to fortel.... -- T o m M i t c h e l l Just say no to 74LS73 in 2004
