Technician or Engineer?

I've worked with engineers with a wide range in the competency spectrum, equally as well as technicians. And the best technician can fill the responsibility of and engineering with projects that proform.

After I graduated from college, I soon realized and saw the differenced between theoretical and practical engineering.

Never had much success in industry with theoretical engineers, I feel they can remain in teaching, (though in school, I gained more value from practical instructors.)

Lyn: How come you gotta pick on me. I ain't even an engineer technically. I barely speak English, much less Arizonian English.

Question: Does this forum make my noggin took tiny?

No, it's that great big ole hat that makes your noggin took tiny?

Oh I think this has always been the case....somebody without hands on experience lacks a connection to reality....There are those that have the intelligence to calculate what is possible, but may not be practical in real life scenario...science fiction writers....

Interesting: the futurologist who drew that did come up with one very good idea, a line down the middle of each lane for the sensors to follow. But, he failed miserably to anticipate the devastating effect that technology would have on games like dominoes.

"But, he failed miserably to anticipate the devastating effect that technology would have on games like dominoes."

Well, yeah, but look at those fins on the cars! The stabilizing effect of the fins would likely overcome and hunting that the autopilot would do.

I think it's interesting the guy is still wearing a suit and tie....haha..... Why hasn't he transitioned to the onesie? Forget the fact that they are basically sitting in a solar oven....

Yeah, he's wearing a suitcoat, mom is wearing a sweater... the bubbletop must have some special coating to reduce eliminate solar gain.

It's just a futuristic glimpse of the Cleavers out for a Sunday drive.

Ward you're cooking the Beaver!!!

Oh, that paracsite is all over the place. No one seems to like it. That whole ordeal with so much hype and time spent digging 'vast treasures' in Al Capone's vaults epitomizes so many of the bad qualities.

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Remember when it got kicked out of the Iraq for drawing a map revealing aspects of an upcoming attack to be televised to the world. Not just irritating, but deadly! Who didn't at least get a little pleasure seeing it's nose broken by a white supremist?

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If a place is nasty, there is a chance you will encounter Giraldo. It is best to avoid all exposure.

Uhhh....I think he was referring to Guardia Lambia intestinal parasite. And you are correct in saying it seems to get into every surface water supply worldwide, except maybe where the water is solid and has to be melted by heavily breathing topless Eskimo maidens.

Ohhhh! I thought you meant Giraldo Rivera. Easy mistake to make.

I have pretty much the same response to Geraldo as to Giardia, not La Guardia. Wretching is fairly common these days when I watch Fox News when Geraldo is on.

Nice mustache though.

Yea it's a real shame no one has ever been able to engineer some sort of system to 'condition the air', so to speak, to cool it enough to offset those sort of solar thermal gain effects.

If you lived in a habital region of the world you'd know that nothing gives relief from direct overhead sunlight, except shade...

Fortunately, I live in North Dakota where only the strong and cunning survive.

Those "futuristic" cars from the 50's and 60's were horrible, for the reason you mentioned. The plastic bubble wasn't very good at keeping the sun/heat out of the car. Poor engineering, but what a cool looking car - this design had to come from one of the Big 3!

Sorry Randall, but I have to disagree. If you painted a dashed line down the middle of the lane (at least here in So Cal), you'd have some very confused drivers. They wouldn't know where they were suppose to drive and I can guarantee there would be a lot of accidents.

Last time I checked, it was you, or someone sounding like your writing, that was the big advocate for these autonomous vehicles.

....so, pretty much the same thing as when lines are painted down the sides (as they are now)?

Anyone else notice the boy is holding a model airplane but not playing the game? In fact it appears only the females are playing dominoes. So the implied message is:

Dad appears indifferent, but is ostensibly in charge of the autonomous vehicle.

Son is thinking about becoming an aeronautical engineer, no time for games.

Mom is just there to look pretty for dad in her sweater, no worries, so she can play games.

Daughter is learning to be like mom, playing a game with her.

Ahhh... the 60s...

Looks more like the 50's to me....

Raymond Loewy’s Ford Atmos car....

Definitely 50's

The real deal!

The Pontiac Firebird!

Future cars from:

1970's

1990's

2000's

2015:

Love the pedestrian-impaling spikes.

Where can I get one of these???

My simplistic definitions:

Technicians work *within* (interpolate) knowledge theories.

Engineers work *beyond* (extrapolate) knowledge theories.

Practical scientists/physicists work *around* knowledge theories.

Theoretical scientists/physicists think *beyond* knowledge theories.

I kind of like how the new "autopilot" features coming out are basically locking on to the car ahead of you as a guide. It assumes THAT car is being driven by someone who knows what they are doing! I expect we will soon see accidents that will involve multiple cars following someone right into oncoming traffic or off a cliff. I'll coin the term right now, the "Lemming Effect". You read it here first...

Quick lane change = crack the whip.

No...

Damn... Oh well.

The new systems watch the car in front to keep a safe distance, which is based on the speed of both your car and the one in front. The lane keeping system works by reading the land marker lines to your right and left. If there are no lines in the road, the system can't keep in your lane and that part of the system is temporarily disabled - a warning message comes on the dash.

Cars following each other over a cliff? If there's something like the 14 Freeway falling (during the '94 Northridge quake) then you are correct. The distance system won't notice a car that had gone over the edge, so it'll resume full speed on the cruise control and then follow the car in front over the edge of the freeway.

"packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes; contestants in a suicidal race."