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[RedKing]

Well duh....obviously dinosaurs were summoned from Nether portals. And the platypus? If that's not a spell misfiring, I don't know what is.

[Captain Mayday]

Gee, you figured it out all on your own? We were hoping you wouldn't. Why, I myself am a 400,000 year old warlock, and boy do I have magical egg on my face now!

Damn it, those are endangered! Stop smashing them on your face!

[doomchild]

Funny enough, I think we're plenty capable of it without any kicker. It's a dormant ability we all have. An age of magic had to exist some time ago; we locked ourselves out after a great war broke out, and just forgot about it, and with good reason.

I have to know if you have any kind of rational basis for this statement.

[Itnetlolor]

Funny enough, I think we're plenty capable of it without any kicker. It's a dormant ability we all have. An age of magic had to exist some time ago; we locked ourselves out after a great war broke out, and just forgot about it, and with good reason.

I have to know if you have any kind of rational basis for this statement.

Well symbols and such have meanings behind them, history shows a bunch of figures plastering them all over the place (one example being Hitler and the swastika (whirlwind of power or some crap like that); King Solomon has used symbols all over the place and such too; claimed to have made several himself), and we couldn't have just been here for just 6 millennia. It just seems so, well, short. Considering mankind's behaviors with great powers, I think it's a pretty rational reason to lock such capabilities, and obscure it into oblivion to ensure the safety of mankind and rebuild after some heavy destruction. Some jackass must've summoned a meteor to end everything. Plus, we can't let secret societies get off the hook with their odd behaviors. Who knows? They might be spending eons trying to unlock their potential. Some may have achieved it, and are just dicking with us with what power they have found.

[doomchild]

Well symbols and such have meanings behind them, history shows a bunch of figures plastering them all over the place (one example being Hitler and the swastika (whirlwind of power or some crap like that); King Solomon has used symbols all over the place and such too; claimed to have made several himself), and we couldn't have just been here for just 6 millennia. It just seems so, well, short.

Firstly, symbols are just things that stand for other things.  They're just placeholders, in the same way that "U.S.A." is a placeholder for "The United States of America".  There's nothing extraordinary or supernatural about that.  Hitler's use of the swastika (originally an ancient symbol associated with well-being) changed the association for the western world, but it wasn't magical.  It's just an equilateral cross with right-angle arms.  And what does any of that have to do with the length of time humans have existed?

Considering mankind's behaviors with great powers, I think it's a pretty rational reason to lock such capabilities, and obscure it into oblivion to ensure the safety of mankind and rebuild after some heavy destruction. Some jackass must've summoned a meteor to end everything. Plus, we can't let secret societies get off the hook with their odd behaviors. Who knows? They might be spending eons trying to unlock their potential. Some may have achieved it, and are just dicking with us with what power they have found.

I was asking for a rational explanation of why you think such "powers" ever existed at all, not why somebody would hide them.

[Realmfighter]

I like to think that magic would be powered by pure belief instead on any tangible force.

Watching two people assured of there victory fighting would be interesting.

[Itnetlolor]

Considering mankind's behaviors with great powers, I think it's a pretty rational reason to lock such capabilities, and obscure it into oblivion to ensure the safety of mankind and rebuild after some heavy destruction. Some jackass must've summoned a meteor to end everything. Plus, we can't let secret societies get off the hook with their odd behaviors. Who knows? They might be spending eons trying to unlock their potential. Some may have achieved it, and are just dicking with us with what power they have found.

I was asking for a rational explanation of why you think such "powers" ever existed at all, not why somebody would hide them.

Oh, that? Meh, reality is unrealistic at times. Something like magic at this level, why not?

I guess that isn't really too rational.

[doomchild]

Oh, that? Meh, reality is unrealistic at times. Something like magic at this level, why not?

I guess that isn't really too rational.

Yeah, not really.

[Scood]

i doubt magic would be capable of being destroyed. once its created. either we will consumed by all matter consuming grey goo/smart matter. or we will be able to model entire buildings like modeling in maya except in real life. in other words magic would be all consuming and all present after it's creation.

[Virex]

or we will be able to model entire buildings like one models in maya.

You mean Rapid prototyping on hectometer scale?

[Scood]

rapid prototyping on a virtually unlimited scale only limited by how much matter/energy you have in the universe. you could model an entire planet.

[Virex]

rapid prototyping on a virtually unlimited scale only limited by how much matter/energy you have in the universe. you could model an entire planet.

Why stop there? You're already breaking the second law of thermodynamics, why not break the first as well?

[Bohandas]

i doubt magic would be capable of being destroyed. once its created. either we will consumed by all matter consuming grey goo/smart matter. or we will be able to model entire buildings like modeling in maya except in real life. in other words magic would be all consuming and all present after it's creation.

Grey Goo or a White Stone

[Retro]

UPDATE: magic just sprung into existence. well played OP.

[Heliman]

Man it's all there. 2012. The world ends, A NEW ONE BEGINS.