On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:55:57 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:

Propane and hydrogen was the mix used by Cal Tech and they are now
humiliated for the stunt nation wide.

Really? According to the US News and World Report's rankings, Cal Tech
is tied for 5th with Duke, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania
among the 248 universities in the country (162 public and 86 private)
that offer a wide range of undergraduate majors as well as master's
and doctoral degrees:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/col...udoc_brief.php

It must be so humiliating to trail only Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and
MIT! (I fully realize that such rankings are highly subjective, but if
Cal Tech had really been humiliated nationwide, one might expect it to
affect such rankings.) Perhaps Cal Tech fired the guy responsible for
their humiliation? Oops, Joseph Shepherd was promoted to full
Professor of Aeronautics in 1999. Perhaps students have noticed this
humiliation and are going elsewhere? Oops, they get roughly 3,000
applications for about 215 places in the freshman class.

Is there any objective evidence that they have been humiliated, or is
this just Mr. Tarver's impression?

Curious readers might also note that the Cal Tech research group
conducted several hundred combustion experiments with Jet A besides
the propane/hydrogen/air experiments. They might also note that back
on Thu, 24 May 2001 11:45:45 -0700, Mr. Tarver acknowledged that he
had not read any of the reports published by Cal Tech's Explosion
Dynamics Laboratory, because "any credibility Cal Tech ever had with
me left when their potato gun was on National News." How his
preference for sound bite science affects his credibility is left as
an exercise to the reader.

No longer will America's Universities
even consider lending their credibility to NTSB and they can no longer get a
University to do work for them.

Can Mr. Tarver cite an instance where a NTSB tried to get a University
to work for them and failed to do so? Details such as which University
and which request for proposal might be helpful.

Regards,

George
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