|Forum|Articles|Profiteering Glutons. By Cyber Seduction   I was at a friends house, yeah I know it's rare, and was forced to watch one of Disney's hatemongering moneymakers"Aladdin". As I sat there and watched it, the creators of the show made it abundantly clear that the magic lamp that contained the magical three wishes giving genie, was EXTREMELY valuable. I feel that they wanted it to be know that the magical lamp was valuable based on the apparent fact that there was a genie inside. I don't think that it why it was valuable. If you continue on that same mental path of material possession, if the genie was not the reason for the value of the lamp, then it would stand to reason that the value was determined by the fact that the lamp was made of solid gold. I don't believe this is the reason for it's value either. Let me give a little background information for those people who aren't familiar with the storyto make the genie come out of the lamp, the possessor is required to rub the side of the lamp with his hand, and only his hand. Now bearing in mind that this story is set in ancient Egypt, that is a pretty amazing task to make a lamp react to human touch. It would first require a reactive substance of some kind. This substance would have to be under the surface of the lamp so as not to be seen by the average person. Now this substance would most likely not be naturally reactive, so it would need to be charged with electrons somehowthis suggests a power source. Again, this power source would have to be concealed inside the lamp. Now this lamp is reactive only to the human touch, so there would have to be a processor of some kind to distinguish between the touch of a human and the touch of an inanimate object. Also, only human's touch could initiate the reaction, so the processor would have to be powerful enough to run the computations in order to distinguish between sentient and non-sentient life. This processor would also have to fit inside the lamp. With all of this jammed inside the lamp, you would also have to find room for the holographic emitter that displays the image of the genie. The processor would also have to be powerful enough to display and control and hologram that appears to be sentient. In addition to all of this, the outer coating of the lamp would have to be made of a material that was durable, yet be malleable enough to allow the "touch" to react with the substance that provides the catalyst that starts the process of determining the nature of matter touching the lamp. Being that we do not have the technology, even today, to achieve such a marvel of technologymy only conclusion is that the "magic lamp" must have been made from parts found in a crashed, time travel capable, alien vessel.     Syntax Error/:|Forum|Articles|