On May 18, 8:36*am, terry wrote:
On May 18, 11:01*pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote: Third, and most likely alternative: he's just stupid.

MX is many things. Persistent, stubborn, blunt, thick-skinned, willing to
argue that black-eyed-peas are really black-eyed-beans, yes. * Occasionally
annoying, often entertaining (mostly because of the responses he obtains),
always willing to come back for more. *He's like a Weebil that won't fall
down.

But stupid? * I don't think so.
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I agree , definately not stupid, probably well above average IQ .A
vertible human sponge of information. But sadly lacking the social
skills necessary to function in any meaningful way to be be able to do
anything useful with the knowledge he has soaked up. *The problem with
getting all of your information from books *and the internet as
distinct from actually doing anything in real life is that you just
dont know what you dont know. *You and I could read 100 books on
neurosurgery but we would realise from our other life experiences that
it would be futile to get into an argument with a neurosurgeon on how
to perform a labotomy. *But not our Anthony, he just doesnt have the
life experience outside his virtural existance to realise just how
little he really knows about anything. Its sad really. *I wish I could
help him, its a shame some local pilot hasnt tried to take him under
their wing and give him a taste of real life.
Terry

Umm...no.

You started out this paragraph in defense of Mx, and then make a
retraction midway through:

You write:

A
vertible human sponge of information. But sadly lacking the social
skills necessary to function in any meaningful way to be be able to do
anything useful with the knowledge he has soaked up.

Then you write:

But not our Anthony, he just doesnt have the
life experience outside his virtural existance to realise just how
little he really knows about anything

So first you imply that he knows much (relatively speaking). Then you
imply that he knows little (relatively speaking).

Which is it?

As far as social graces go, assuming that he is correct on some
things, which I must clearly state, I do not know, and is verbally
abused by those who disagree with him, then who is lacking in social
grace.

I too have met some freakishly bright people in my life, some with
multiple advanced degress from top university, and those people will
often listen to utter jibberish by a 17 or 18 year-old about things
that they have being doing research about for 30+ years, and not
insult that person, not once. To give you an example...ahem...

In electrical engineering, there are formulas that govern what happens
to a slab of plastic if it is lubricated and placed between two metal
place, a voltage being applied to the plates. The slab will have a
tendency to move. One can make artificial muscles from this, which
would aid the prosthetic word considerably.

Anyhow, one day while studying these formulas, I became so excited
about the potential for artificial muscles, I bounced around the EE
department at my university, until I found on prof who was expert in
this type of technology. He sat quietly, probably a good 10-12 minutes
behind his desk, as I ranted about the design (flaw) and the
mathematics (also flawed), and just smiled. After I finished, I said,
"Ok, I guess you're smiling because my math is flawed but..." and he
reaches down, grabs a magazine, tosses it into my lap, and on front
cover, there is picture of Japanese researchers, making artificial
muscles, using exact same method, but different types of metals.

Here you have, a giant in the field, listening to someone who is so
green that he botches the Biot-Savart Law, not being condescending,
not interrupting me saying, "You got it all wrong, dummy", just
smiling. I never pursued the idea, but I will never forget that Prof.

If experienced pilots, especially in real life, would adopt this
attitude, young pilots would be more inclined to finish flight
training, I think.

There is also another option, which one pilot at my flight school
refused to use, which is, when asked something that is not understood,
like the internals of VOR tranmitter/receiver, to simply say, "I don't
know."

-Le Chaud Lapinn-