Re: Runaway Global Warming Possible!

From: Ian St. John (istjohn_at_noemail.usa)
Date: 03/20/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:17:25 -0500

Rand Simberg wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:14:44 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Ian St.
> John" <istjohn@noemail.usa> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
> such a way as to indicate that:
>
>>>> Engineering is not science. Sorry to have to break this to you.
>>>
>>> No, it's the application of science.
>>
>> You really don't need to known the theory(science) of gravity to use
>> the formula for the rate at which a body falls or how much tensile
>> strength it takes to keep something from doing so.. Engineering
>> doesn't need to know science so much as a few formulas that were
>> derived by scientists.
>
> You obviously know nothing about engineering, or engineering
> curricula.

Well, my degree is in science but I work in engineering. Perhaps I didn't
get the right indoctrination in engineeering school boy pranks and hazing.

"we are, we are, we are, we are, we are the engineers. "
"we can, we can ,we can drink up fourty beers"

And what would engineers be without their trademark pipe wrench ( aka the
Rigid Tool ).

Yes. Engineers. The frat boys of the working world....

But I digress...

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