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Rocket Scientists not as Smart as Originally Thought
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| September 22, 2006
| Andy Borowitz
Posted on 09/24/2006 9:41:00 AM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship. design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."
Someone's been watching me for a week again? Well not the last part.
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:26:49 AM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Adam Smith would strongly disagree.
To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
"...Specialization is for insects."
I've posted that entire quotation in several of my classrooms. I love it!
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:32:00 AM PDT
by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: edwin hubble
Except Maher is about as funny as a pay toilet in a dysentery ward.
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:36:07 AM PDT
by
stm
(Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
To: peyton randolph
That is an urban legend. Einstein was not bad at math. You only need to study the general theory of relativity to know that.
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:37:33 AM PDT
by
burzum
(Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
To: cripplecreek
While most brain surgeons are likely smart, what's really required is judgment, patience, and a steady hand. And if you're male, probably a normal prostate. Those surgeries can go on for a long time.
To: thoughtomator
They all pale in comparison to the legendary rocket surgeon.I second your motion.
![](http://www.aeromuseum.org/images/exhibits/silo.jpg) |
"And if you touch this bit, the motor nozzles move!" "Cool! Lemme try!" |
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:39:55 AM PDT
by
Hoplite
To: So Cal Rocket
aren't smart enough to pour water out of a boot... Well, that would require foreknowledge that the instructions were on the bottom of the boot...
I suggest placing additional instructions or directions on the side or top of the boot, directing the individual to the location of the instructions..
A simple equation may suffice..
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:41:11 AM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom... Not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: Thombo2
One evening my neighbor(aka the Mole)decided to see what would happen if he threw pennies(hundreds)in the WUSF satellite dish.Reasoning?Intellectual curiosity. What was his manner of introducing the pennies, and what was the result?
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:46:51 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: cripplecreek
Lectroids. Another one say "PITT".
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:49:52 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: peyton randolph
True on point one.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein
generally (mathematician and former rocket scientist)
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:51:10 AM PDT
by
generally
(Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
To: John Jorsett
Rocket scientists, long considered the gold standard in intelligence among all professionals, are not nearly as smart as originally thought... Hell, my wife coulda told you that! She reminds me every day, for cryin' out loud! ;o)
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:54:26 AM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(True Conservatives don't vote for Liberals just because they have an 'R' by their name.)
To: Paleo Conservative
Hey! I resemble that.
![](http://www.barracudamagazine.com/gifs/rocket-scientist-type.gif)
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posted on
09/24/2006 10:58:01 AM PDT
by
phantomworker
(A life spent in making mistakes is more honorable & more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.)
To: So Cal Rocket; originalbuckeye
Well....My husband must be the exception.
He's not only a rocket scientist....
..he's smart enough to figure out anything he needs to know....
..and that includes mechanics with the cars, or with any appliance in our home.-
--And common sense....he has tons!!
He is one of the smartest men I know, but he would be embarrassed I wrote this, as he's also humble and doesn't call attention to himself.
I balance us by being the more relational one....
It works :)
To: burzum
"That is an urban legend. Einstein was not bad at math. You only need to study the general theory of relativity to know that."
It's not an urban legend, actually. He was lousy at math in the primary grades. He got over it. He was still a social klutz, though, and needed help in choosing his clothing. He had as much fashion sense as I do, in fact: little to none. His parietal lobes were also about 15% larger than normal, according to the autopsy report... Had better things to do with that capacity, after all.
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posted on
09/24/2006 11:01:21 AM PDT
by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
To: John Jorsett
Oh, it's Andy Borowitz. I thought it was real at first. God that guy's funny.
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posted on
09/24/2006 11:10:29 AM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: Paleo Conservative
Originally thought by whom?
To: Old Student
He was lousy at math in the primary grades. He got over it. That is sort of a mischaracterization. He performed poorly in math because he couldn't stand the rigid German school system. It is not so much that he got over it than that he was eventually able to use his mind in a less restricted sense. It wasn't through a great deal of study that he became the greatest physicist of the last century, it was because of his unique reasoning ability.
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posted on
09/24/2006 11:16:59 AM PDT
by
burzum
(Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
To: Brilliant
To: John Jorsett
Well humor article or not, the fact remains that the top preformers in the field of science often cannot tie their own shoes, balance their own checkbooks or button up their shirt properly. They are really no smarter than most other smart people - they have just chosen to dedicate most of their brain cells towards one particular field of endeavor.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. But it always has annoyed me when people say of a particular task "Well it's not rocket science (or brain surgery)."
Fact is, anybody of average intelligence could become a rocket science or a brain surgeon with the proper training and dedication.
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posted on
09/24/2006 11:24:29 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(The Program is Morally Good)
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