18 May
2005
18 May
'05
10:16 a.m.
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at
xenosoft.com>
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
How can somebody even consider a career in "engineering" if they've never
even made their own flashlight ("torch" on the other side of the pond)
> > > Many of them made a dead short across the battery, and then touched one
of
> How
many people saw that Nova? PBS session where they handed ENGINEERING
> undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires? Many of the students
> were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket.
It's worrying that I could do this before I even went to primary school... the bulb
contacts to that. etc.
Wow, comedy for nerds. I have to see that.