kallend 2,027 #26 February 6, 2008 Quote Quote Quote Quote Personally I see it less as negativism and more as para-logical titivationism with some atavistic neo-colonialism thrown in. But I have always been something of a radical thinker... Props to you for that, I was thinking something similar except all the gigantic, meaningless words that I can string together are engineering words, not psychology words (or made-up words). Anyway, while I'm sure the paper made a great grad-school psych essay, and I think the author made some correct observations, I really just found it a case of using big, confusing words to hide the fact that he was describing the intuitively obvious. Can you give an example of a meaningless gigantic engineering word? Turboencabulator? Right! Like widget, humgrummet, framistan.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UDSkyJunkie 0 #27 February 6, 2008 QuoteMassage therapy is NOT engineering. There you go clouding the issue with facts again. How about this? "Three dimentional finite element modeling of low-cycle fatigue mode crack propogation through shot-peen induced residual stress fields in nickel-based superalloy materials." No, I didn't make that up. I had THAT JOB for 2 1/2 years."Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snowjumper 0 #28 February 6, 2008 Interesting paper. Thanks for the mental exercise...We who are, not like Others... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,027 #29 February 6, 2008 Quote Quote Massage therapy is NOT engineering. There you go clouding the issue with facts again. How about this? "Three dimentional finite element modeling of low-cycle fatigue mode crack propogation through shot-peen induced residual stress fields in nickel-based superalloy materials." No, I didn't make that up. I had THAT JOB for 2 1/2 years. What's hard to understand about that?Very important if you make jet engines OR FLY IN PLANES WITH THEM. The longest word is "propagation", and that isn't gigantic or meaningless.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chuckakers 425 #30 February 7, 2008 5 left and cut. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Meux 0 #31 February 9, 2008 This is the only post I understood in this entire thread. Thanks for putting it all in perspective. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
