Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:02 pm
Oh poo, now you've probably scared him off...ladajo wrote:If anyone wants to talk to Rick, he will be at George Miiley's retirement in April.
Oh poo, now you've probably scared him off...ladajo wrote:If anyone wants to talk to Rick, he will be at George Miiley's retirement in April.
pssh, like i was gonna do anything else with the time, a physics degree is practically a license to print money. I can take things as lazy as I want since I'm pretty much guaranteed a job as something. Course I'm going to try getting into the University of Iowa's grad school program first, nab a PhD in plasma physics. Might make a focus of doing diagnostics on dense plasma foci, or IEC reactors.Giorgio wrote:Well, see the bright side of it... at least you didn't waste your time while waiting
Lucky you.Professor Science wrote:pssh, like i was gonna do anything else with the time, a physics degree is practically a license to print money. I can take things as lazy as I want since I'm pretty much guaranteed a job as something. Course I'm going to try getting into the University of Iowa's grad school program first, nab a PhD in plasma physics. Might make a focus of doing diagnostics on dense plasma foci, or IEC reactors.
Excellent! Let's take up a collection and send our most pessimistic and most optimistic forum members (one each) to corner the two Drs. and get some answers!ladajo wrote:Doubt it, he and George go way back. I think George is also on the Peer Review panel.
Why in the world would you want to send the two nuttiest folks? Wouldn't a pair of undecideds be better?rjaypeters wrote: ...send our most pessimistic and most optimistic forum members ...
Good cop, bad cop. The good Drs. might not want to talk to the pessimist, but to the optimist. OTOH, if one or both is feeling combative, the pessimist is the better interlocutor.KitemanSA wrote:Why in the world would you want to send the two nuttiest folks? Wouldn't a pair of undecideds be better?rjaypeters wrote: ...send our most pessimistic and most optimistic forum members ...
It's a party for a respected professor. Why don't we respect him, and Dr. Nebel, and be patient?rjaypeters wrote:Good cop, bad cop. The good Drs. might not want to talk to the pessimist, but to the optimist. OTOH, if one or both is feeling combative, the pessimist is the better interlocutor.
We don't want a convincing case, "We want information."
We have a radical shortage of science teachers too, but we are fixing the issue by employing people with humanitarian degree because they cost less. As a result the scientific knowledge of the young people here is becoming more and more ridiculous.Professor Science wrote:Giorgio, it's a matter of what you're willing to do, the US has a radical shortage on Highschool physics teachers, if you're willing to do that, you'll never go hungry. And the fact that physics is weird enough to most people you can kind of brandish it as this weird badge. If you're friendly enough, it can get the job done.
To be blunt, we're waiting so long for results from these people, that they are retiring and dying before we get to hear about any successful progress made! That is not a result!dch24 wrote:It's a party for a respected professor. Why don't we respect him, and Dr. Nebel, and be patient?rjaypeters wrote:Good cop, bad cop. The good Drs. might not want to talk to the pessimist, but to the optimist. OTOH, if one or both is feeling combative, the pessimist is the better interlocutor.
We don't want a convincing case, "We want information."
I know, I know, I'm the killjoy.
Perhaps a "Goldilocks" strategy would be useful: "This one is too hot, that one is two cold, but the third is just right." Probably have to select the "The Moderate" by lottery.KitemanSA wrote:Wouldn't a pair of undecideds be better?
You have a point. But our delegates don't have to go to or disrupt the party. Our delegates can be outside, but they must not wait for anything!dch24 wrote:It's a party for a respected professor. Why don't we respect him, and Dr. Nebel, and be patient?
Which is why I, if may be so bold, nominate you for "The Pessimist."chrismb wrote:Public results for Polywell, if you please, else the whole calamitous nonsense is, in my eyes, proven to be a big fat dud.