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Italian engineering is truly incredible, producing some of the most cutting edge advances the world has seen... until they catch fire.
by tristor 8y ago
Italian engineering is truly incredible, producing some of the most cutting edge advances the world has seen... until they catch fire.
- muxator 8y agoOnly if it's a public bus in the center of the capital :)
- squarefoot 8y agoWe do actually have top notch engineers; too bad they're often forced to work abroad, particularly researchers. That joke about Italy just doesn't split the problem in two as it should by taking into account the ignorant leading class which does its best to hinder most technical and cultural development in this country. The (in)famous "Gelmini Tunnel" as it was later called to ridicule our then science minister is just an example. https://www.businessinsider.com/mariastella-gelmini-italy-ugo-bardi-cern-theory-of-relativity-2011-9?IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/mariastella-gelmini-italy-ug...
- tristor 8y agoI was being tongue-in-cheek. I'm also a car guy and was mostly taking the piss out of the fact Ferraris are known to catch fire quite often and without much prodding, despite being also some of the most amazing cutting edge machines ever built.
- 2dvisio 8y agoI thought catching fire was a prerogative of F35 from Lockheed Martin