And in a few cases in this thread responders have not attempted to learn the technical language and/or study the subject, but give their best guess based upon their "common Sense" or simply decide the problem is meaningless.
Only because Taz demanded that we attempt to solve the problem using 'common sense'.
quote:
Taz in Message 26:
And also don't try to insert math or engineering principles. The point of this thread is common sense. Just by looking at it, where does your common sense tell you the beam/plank/piece of wood/person/car/whatever will fail?
When folks tried to tell Taz that their common sense told them the problem was unsolvable without more informationspecifically, knowledge of engineering (
Message 27) and inquired as to how common sense had anything to do with the solution of the problem, Taz again insisted that folks give the problem a try using just their common sense:
quote:
Taz in Message 32:
Tangle writes:
Um, what has common sense got to do with it?
It's got everything to do with it.
Taz wants to make a silly point, and few people here want to be a part of his example. I can't blame them.
Taz's point proved.
And that's not Taz's point. Taz's point, in his own words, was that common sense gives a different (and typically wrong) answer to problems than good ol' fashion science and critical thinking: "On the one side, we have honest to god scientists saying one thing and we have ordinary people saying another, using their common sense to try to stump scientists." (
Message 32)
But everyone participating in this thread already knows that (
Message 61, for example), and has told Taz that. Yet he demands we all present evidence to help convince ourselves of something we already believe to be true. Real strange, and not something I'll waste any more time doing.
Jon
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