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[Donnie Evans]

Engineering Conversion Chart


1,000,000,000,000 Microphones = 1 Megaphone
1,000,000 bicycles = 2 megacycles
500 millinaries = 1 seminary
2,000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbirds
10 cards = 1 decacards
1/2 lavatory = 1 demijohn
0.000001 fish = 1 microfiche
453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
1,000,000,000,000 pins = 1 terrapin
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 picolos = 1 gigolo
10 rations = 1 decoration
100 rations = 1 C-ration
10 millipedes = 1 centipede
3 1/3 tridents = 1 decadent
5 holocausts = 1 Pentacost
10 monologs = 5 dialogues
5 dialogues = 1 decalogue
2 monograms = 1 diagram
8 nickels = 2 paradigms
2 snake eyes = 1 paradise
2 wharves = 1 paradox

[Donnie Evans]

Go to this link and scroll to the bottom of the page... lots of "you might be an engineer if..." jokes.

http://www.inflection-point.com/jokes.php

[Ivan Beaver]

Tom Young wrote on Mon, 19 January 2009 09:11

The contractor says: "What $%^&* consultant specified twice as much %^&*@-ing glass as the client needs ?" Right, Ivan ? .... and the client is just plain happy to have a line-array-shaped vessel.

No matter the size

[Robert Sims]

You might be an engineer if you always check to see if someone else has already solve the challenge.

IE: Looking on the internet for answers to "You might be an Engineer if".  

[Josh Shetter]

John Roberts  {JR} wrote on Sun, 18 January 2009 11:23

-You question global warming.

You don't have to be an engineer to do that.

[Vince Byrne]

Josh Shetter wrote on Tue, 20 January 2009 01:43

John Roberts  {JR} wrote on Sun, 18 January 2009 11:23 -You question global warming. You don't have to be an engineer to do that.

But if you are an engineer, you don't have an excuse.

[Don Boone]

"Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real"

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/eco.globalwarmi ngsurvey/index.html

Something like 3% question global warming.

Don

[John Roberts {JR}]

Don Boone wrote on Wed, 21 January 2009 09:47

"Surveyed scientists agree global warming is real"  http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/01/19/eco.globalwarmi ngsurvey/index.html Something like 3% question global warming. Don

Quote:

Two questions were key: Have mean global temperatures risen compared to pre-1800s levels, and has human activity been a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures? About 90 percent of the scientists agreed with the first question and 82 percent the second. The strongest consensus on the causes of global warming came from climatologists who are active in climate research, with 97 percent agreeing humans play a role. Petroleum geologists and meteorologists were among the biggest doubters, with only 47 percent and 64 percent, respectively, believing in human involvement.

From your own link it's only among climatologists that the percentage is that high.

I have no question the planet has a fever as it heats and cools over time. Whether man can trump the influence of solar cycles and other influences is IMO not proved beyond a questionable doubt.

I am more concerned about smokestack mercury and arsenic than CO2... since I generate CO2 and a little methane from my personal smokestack from time to time. We should certainly be prudent about how we consume resources but not silly.

Nuke power good, nuke bombs bad... they are not the same thing despite what some middle eastern countries would have us believe.

If we are causing some heating it will be minor compared to when the magnetic poles reverse in 2012  

JR







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[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Two versions of a common riddle:

Q. Why does a hummingbird hum?

Normal answer: Because it doesn't know the words!

Engineer's answer: Maybe it's not shielded.

[Art Welter]

“If we are causing some heating it will be minor compared to when the magnetic poles reverse in 2012”

Engineers will know enough to sail on a reversed reciprocal magnetic compass course when that happens.