Posted on 03/30/2005 3:32:35 PM PST by KevinDavis
Had trouble finding an electrician, a carpenter, a bricklayer, or any one of a number of other skilled craftspeople for that little project you just can’t handle yourself? Probably.
We often read about the scarcity of those we used to call "trades people." (Well, we really used to call them "trades men," but that’s neither proper nor accurate any more.) The trade unions were strong and had extensive apprentice programs so young people could learn the trade from the experts—people who usually had rough hands, sometimes used less than perfect grammar, but sure knew how to build and repair things. Their tools weren’t computers and word processors, but they sure knew how to measure and cut, nail and solder, wire and paint. They knew about hammers and saws, pliers and wrenches, blowtorches and soldering irons.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Mars needs women! Sign me up - if they don't want my computer skills, well, I can peel potatoes with the best of them.
lol
I am in!
If they need breeders I'm in.
Cool article.
Thanks!!!
Besides tech, I can can garden, mechanic and cook. Venus needs women...Mars needs me!
Hey, I'm a skilled technician. I'l go.
If Mars needs IT people, I'd go. But, I can weld very well, drive a tractor, fix fence, handle cattle...all the things Mars is crying for. Can't be much colder then SD in January.
LOL...never look up the soil stack if there is a toilet on the next floor up...plumbers don't bite there finger nails...LOL
...I was actually granted over 50% of my student loan back in Canada since I completed 3 years of electrical trades...I guess they didn't get the memo that I was no longer living in Canada and not working in any trades up there...
I was just shoveling some of yesterday's snow and a car of tourists showed up demanding to see the moose. They said the moose would be near the water.
This is surreal. It has been below freezing for six months, there is no water. Haven't seen the moose for a couple weeks. Actually, they migrate so you hardly ever see the same moose twice. The moose would be near the water. Sure, and how did the tourists get off the main road and down my driveway anyway? They are from New York. Impressive.
In summer 1972 I took a course from a young Geology PhD.
While in grad. school, he was preparing to be an astronaut-geologist.
Government scaled back plans, no need for him, he becomes an earthbound geology prof. teaching at Calif. State Univ. Fullerton.
A really good teacher, using lotsa field trips, and lab demos of how God's spinning mudball works, physically.
If we can get the tradesmen to stop voting Liberal or NDP and go to the party that truly would be best for them, the Conservatives, we could win every election.
A tourist near Fairbanks before May is already determined not to be the brightest bulb in the box.
where you at...
I'm from Vancouver Island...the NDP & Liberals paradise...
I'm in Eastern WA now...Vancouver BC and Western WA go hand in hand...Vancouver BC is like the "Light-Beer" version of Seattle...
I suppose we might build stone walls or viaducts on some planet, but the point about space in the popular imagination has always been to get away from how things were done since time immemorial, so the suggestion jars with what we've come to expect.
I don't know what we would be building in space. My guess it would be some type of metal. As for other planets, we would be using the natural resources on other planets instead of shipping materials from Earth to another planet.
My wife and I saw a moose in a yard just off Cushman when I was last in Fairbanks (Feb). It sat there while we got some pictures. It then took off and we have some photos of it crossing against the red light...where's a cop when needed?
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