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People must have felt that Engineering products gave humans god-like powers. It must have been fun to completely ignore Physics.
by blablabla123 8y ago
People must have felt that Engineering products gave humans god-like powers. It must have been fun to completely ignore Physics.
- black-tea 8y agoYou can see that even when people drive cars. People will do really stupid things like drive through deep puddles or over uneven ground because they essentially trust the car to do what it does under normal conditions.
- jbay808 8y agoOr the guy who, when his engineers say the building design isn't safe, fires them and gets someone else to do it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_collapse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_co...
- mook89 8y ago> People will do really stupid things like drive ... over uneven ground Cars tend to be able to drive over uneven ground. I'd say that people only used to driving on smooth asphalt underestimate this.
- black-tea 8y agoI've seen people rip off entire pieces of bodywork because they've overestimated this.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>People will do really stupid things like drive through deep puddles or over uneven ground because they essentially trust the car to do what it does under normal conditions. Or because it makes an otherwise mundane task entertaining.
- Symmetry 8y agoPeople at the time were aware of the issue: http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_strain.htm http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_strain.htm
- csours 8y agoSome people feel that way about software today. What do you mean you have to spend time engineering it? Just write it the way I imagine it working (but also I can't tell you what I'm imagining, but trust me it's amazing)! I'm not bitter, I promise.