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The most HackerNews of all comments. "Well it was the engineers who did most of the work..." Who do you think came up with some of those engineering advances?
by spaceseaman 9y ago
The most HackerNews of all comments.
"Well it was the engineers who did most of the work..."
Who do you think came up with some of those engineering advances? No need to play semantic scientist vs. engineer arguments. Some of the advances came from scientists and some came from engineers.
- _dps 9y agoI was at Caltech when LIGO was being built. Kip Thorne gave a great lecture in the engineering school about how they went about knowing what to try to engineer in the first place. I'm not an expert on LIGO, but based on the seminars I attended it sounded like there was a lot of science that went into figuring out what the engineering team needed to do.
- spaceseaman 9y agoI may have gone to a similar talk when Kip was at my school, what a coincidence!
- KGIII 9y agoTo add to this, engineers can use the scientific method.