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Post by JayUtah on Jan 21, 2009 17:51:13 GMT -4
Unfortunately most conspiracy theorists believe that their ability to spot Apollo "fakes" makes them experts.
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Post by Grand Lunar on Jan 22, 2009 7:50:09 GMT -4
Unfortunately most conspiracy theorists believe that their ability to spot Apollo "fakes" makes them experts. Not surprising, since they think a person with a degree in English literature was an engineer and that a college dropout was a brilliant physicist.
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Post by ineluki on Jan 22, 2009 10:12:52 GMT -4
Not surprising, since they think... a college dropout was a brilliant physicist. Of course he is, it's just those closeminded mainstream scientists of the evil establishment who denied it...
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 22, 2009 19:05:12 GMT -4
Well to be fair, I can think of one collage dropout that really was a brilliant physicist
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Post by RAF on Jan 22, 2009 20:28:23 GMT -4
That particular college dropout had the "advantage" of being right.
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Post by JayUtah on Jan 23, 2009 1:38:56 GMT -4
Whether one finishes college or not does not determine competence or the lack thereof. But there must be some adjudication of competence, either by taking a degree or by succeeding in some domain-specific activity.
As I mentioned, the head of mechanical engineering at one company where I worked did not have a mechanical engineering degree. But he built victorious full-size racing cars from scratch, including the engines. Anyone who can design and build a series of high-performance internal combustion engines himself clearly knows a thing or two about engineering.
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Post by Grand Lunar on Jan 23, 2009 8:20:31 GMT -4
Shows he had a firm grasp of reality too, and maybe even the need for speed!
I'd like to guess whom. May I have a hint?
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Post by raven on Jan 23, 2009 15:06:50 GMT -4
I know of a brilliant chemist and physicist who did much of the elemental work on electromagnetism that our society depends on today, as well as significant work on organic chemistry, and has at least two scientific units named after him, who had little formal education. However, he didn't, to the best of my knowledge, go to collage, even to eventually dropout.
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Post by Ginnie on Jan 23, 2009 16:04:11 GMT -4
Shows he had a firm grasp of reality too, and maybe even the need for speed! I'd like to guess whom. May I have a hint? Crazy hair.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Jan 23, 2009 17:02:31 GMT -4
I laughed, I cried, I nearly choked on my lunch. That clue is fuuuuunny. And to think I'd have said Patent Office, lol Of course there is the possiblity he'll think you mean Dr. Emmett Brown, lol.
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Post by raven on Jan 23, 2009 17:03:30 GMT -4
He didn't happen to explain (among other things) the photoelectric effect, did he?
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Post by Al Johnston on Jan 23, 2009 18:14:06 GMT -4
What a Yahoo, you can't be serious ;D
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Post by RAF on Jan 23, 2009 18:24:16 GMT -4
I got the reference, but I don't know what that says about me.
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