• From: stranded in Iowa
  • Registered: 2004-07-06

Topic: Inspirational Idiocy

Thank god for the "elite" otherwise I'd die of boredom.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05147/511696.stm

WOW...I wish I had an education...

Reminds me of a couple of stories...one was of a blacksmith and a PHD who were trying to rediscover the secret of Damascus Steel. The PHD emails the blacksmith with a long winded dissertation on why what the blacksmith was doing was fruitless. The blacksmith replied "You may be a PHD but you don't have a clue what's actually going on here". The blacksmith figured it out a short time later.

True story.....^^^

The second is of a couple PHD's trying to figure out how the moon was formed. They tried the "captured planetoid" theory and found it lacking. Then they tried the "pulled from the earth forming the pacific ocean" theory and also found it lacking. Eventually exhausting all their options and failing to come up with any theory they declared the moon didn't really exist at all.

It would be funny if it wasn't so plausible....

Saracen

"We will not go quietly into the night, We will not give up without a fight...."

2 Reply by Brad462

  • Brad462
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Re: Inspirational Idiocy

"Eventually exhausting all their options and failing to come up with any theory they declared the moon didn't really exist at all."

Haha the moon didnt exist at all... thats a hard theory to argue with.