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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: "trivial engineering"
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:00:10 GMT
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- In <BzA75H.6Lp.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
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- >I believe my post was in response to an argument that since designing a new
- >engine for a comercial airliner (and establishing its reliability) is so
- >easy, that therefore designing and proving a new rocket engine ought to be
- >pretty easy too. I was pointing out that designing a new jet engine
- >*isn't* particularly easy.
-
- I never said it was easy. It's not. That's why you have to *pay*
- people to do it. I don't understand why you fail to see the
- difference between "not easy" and "impossible." (Then again,
- I don't understand why you fail to see the difference between
- Al Gore and Albert Einstein. Perhaps the similarity of names
- has you confused. :-)
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