>In a message dated 2/20/00 2:23:40 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>nuckolls@aeroelectric.com writes:
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>> My hero C.F. Kettering said, "You can know a lot
>> and yet understand nothing."
>
>Bob: I gave up trying to know everything along time ago, it was way to much
>work...how about you?
>
>Regards,
>John
John, My apologies sir if you thought the Kettering quote was
directed at you. My intention was to point out the virtual
ocean of knowledge in which we are immersed. There are thousands
of our fellow citizens who dip from this ocean and splash it
around, not the least of which are "certified mechanics" and
"degreed engineers".
I used to cross paths with a local expert witness in the accident
invesigation business who was a driving school instructor after
having retired from 20+ years as a highway patrolman. His credential
for getting on the witness stand was for having "seen and investigated
tons of accidents." We used to call him "20g Stackley" . . . no
matter how the vehicles behaved or the circumstances of the
collision, an acceleration value of 20g's showed up in the calculations
for EVERY case. He was not only incompetent but could be shown to
lie a lot too . . . none-the-less he enjoyed a pretty successful
career in local courts. We can find plenty of grey-beards roaming
the confines of our airports who are no better at understanding
the physics of what they do than trooper Stackley was.
My fondest wishes for these discussions is to discover the physics
of our art and share the knowledge with the most ludid explanations
we can devise. I was not shucking rocks at you my friend and I truly
regret that it came across in that manner.
Bob . . .
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( time you try something, and it works. )
( One fails forward toward success. )
( C.F. Kettering )
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