Much, much too late.

Post #93,953 by Another Scott 4/2/03 11:12:18 PM Reply	Much, much too late. Wasn't there a Greek fellow many many years ago, Homer perhaps, who thought that writing would be the end of knowledge? His reasoning was that when people didn't have to know how to memorize and recite the Illiad and the Odyssey by heart they'd lose an important part of their intelligence. He had a point. :-/ Who remembers how to take square roots by hand? Ok, who remembers how to calculate natural logarithms by hand? Alright, who besides Ashton and Ben? :-) Cheers, Scott. (Who used to know how to do that stuff, but now has trouble figuring tips...)
Post #93,957 by boxley 4/2/03 11:18:50 PM Reply	dont forget drl I know how to do the roots and logs by hand but the answers will be off. I am more concerned with how to build the folowing items by hand. wooden wheel hand lathe hand drill rewind a coil build a capacitor and a battery build a wind generator and a water pump things I can do but my kids cannot. simply smithy work building a chimney if you take hitech and factories out how do you keep semi civilized where you dont depend on eating the neighbors. America has lost a tremendous amount of these skills. thanx, bill thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org] Since corporations are the equivelent of human but they have no "concience" they are by definition sociopaths
Post #93,965 by Another Scott 4/2/03 11:27:31 PM Reply	D'oh! and The Woodwright's Shop Yup. I should have remembered deS. See, it's another example of my brain turning to mush because I didn't memorize the Illiad when I had a chance! I assume you've seen [link\|http://www.pbs.org/wws/\|The Woodwright's Shop] on PBS? The guy there, Roy Underhill, builds lots and lots of stuff by hand or with machines he's made. Amazing stuff, but it's exhausting to watch him work. I saw one show where he was building a shed from timbers in the woods. By himself. It was painful to watch him straining... But it's a good show. While losing manufacturing is a very worrying trend in many respects, one very good thing about America being such a huge country and so technologically advanced is that it would be very difficult for things to get to such a state that we'd have to start over. Too many people have Honda generators now... :-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #93,979 by boxley 4/2/03 11:54:39 PM Reply	think about replacing a piston ring from scratch :-) will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org] Since corporations are the equivelent of human but they have no "concience" they are by definition sociopaths
Post #94,024 by drewk 4/3/03 9:16:23 AM Reply	Ever see the one about the pencil? Someone used a basic #2 pencil as an example. Traced all the people involved to produce it. Back from the manufacturing, through the guys who drive the trucks full of raw materials, through the guys who mine the raw materials, through the guys who manufacture the equipment required for the mining, through the company that makes the gas for the mining equipment, the people who make the equipment for the oil refinery ... etc ... etc ... etc ... If all the technology went away tomorrow, and we had to start over really from scratch, even if we still had the knowledge we couldn't do it in two lifetimes. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #94,075 by deSitter 4/3/03 10:45:19 AM Reply	Sounds like Burke's "Connections" - entertaining show -drl
Post #94,082 by admin 4/3/03 10:54:47 AM Reply	Extraordinary show I catch it whenever I can. The older, hour-long version is better than the newer one (Connections II, or some such). Unfortunately he doesn't write his column in Scientific American any longer. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #94,098 by drewk 4/3/03 11:51:01 AM Reply	pH34R my m4d 600613 sk\|llz (new thread) Created as new thread #94097 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=94097\|pH34R my m4d 600613 sk\|llz] === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.

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