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==Transcript== :[A parent and a child walking on the beach] :I call that "The Falling Problem". :You encounter it when you first study physics. You realize that, if you were ever dropped from a plane without a parachute, you could calculate with a high degree of accuracy how long it'd take to hit the ground, your speed, how much energy you'll deposit into the earth. :And yet, you would still be just as dead as a particularly stupid gorilla dropped the same distance. :Mastery of the nature of reality grants you no mastery over the behavior of reality. :I could tell you why grandpa is very sick. I could tell you what each cell is doing wrong, why it's doing it wrong, and roughly when it started doing wrong. :But I can't tell them to stop. :Why can't you make a machine to fix it? :Same reason you can't make a parachute when you fall from the plane. :Because it's too hard? :Nothing is too hard. Many things are too fast. :[Silence for a panel] :I think I could solve the problem with a jetpack. Can you try to get me the parts? :That's all I do, kiddo.
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