From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Snag"  wrote in message news:v5l5ro$34lll$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   Well ...   
      I can see Bad Shit coming down the road . If y'all have read The Mote   
   in God's Eye , ...   
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   I identified with the engineer who realized that everything in the museum   
   was broken, it was a personality type test. That resembles my second-hand   
   shopping trips, the trick is to figure out what's wrong and if and how I can   
   easily fix it before negotiating a deal. (Clean the carb?) The narrow nerdy   
   stereotype of electronics people the book magnifies is common among liberal   
   arts types, who were visibly annoyed that I could also discuss art and   
   literature.   
      
   Jerry Pournelle's blog was very intelligent and interesting.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle   
   "He was one of the founders of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National   
   Space Policy, which developed some of the Reagan Administration's space   
   initiatives, including the earliest versions of what would become the   
   Strategic Defense Initiative."   
      
   The only thing I caught him on was the argument that an eye is too complex   
   to have evolved.   
   https://earthlife.net/nautilus-anatomy/   
   "The nautilus eye is a simple pinhole style eye, similar to a pinhole   
   camera."   
   It's not much more than a snake's heat sensitive pit yet it can form images.   
      
   I don't have a can seam mike, but my vehicles carry compact 4" dial calipers   
   that can stay within a shirt pocket when rummaging through industrial   
   "stuff". The 4" may fit under the mill head when 6" is too bulky. The can   
   mike could be useful like my miniature 0-0.5" Fowler mike when picking   
   through unlabeled sheet metal.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)