What STILL blows me away is that Rush had a B.Sc in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, yet ignored the obvious problems with a carbon fiber hull on a submersible that were easily explained by a former truck driver.
Wealthy people’s experience of university is very different from someone who attends purely on merit.
University isn’t some great filter that distinguishes legitimately intelligent people more often than not it’s just a tool to separate social classes based on arbitrary expertise requirements.
You don’t get to use a lack of higher education as an excuse to be ignorant though. Not saying you do, but there are people that take the idea that just because there are stupid people who are highly qualified means that all ‘experts’ can be disregarded. Not true.
There are plenty of intelligent people at uni, just like there are plenty who never did higher education.
The things that both of those groups have in common though is that they are curious, intellectually honest and can be reasoned with when presented with evidence.
I wish more people understood this. Going to some university that costs tons of money isnt what makes you smart, and being smart is less of a reason why people get in then just having connections and money.
Hell, even a spacecraft hull differential is typically the same as one atmosphere, total. By about 10m down you're already 1 atm of additional force beyond the 1 atm that exists just by existing at sea level. So, at the depth of the Titanic (around 3800 meters) you're at around 380 atm of pressure, give or take.
What STILL blows me away is that Rush had a B.Sc in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, yet ignored the obvious problems with a carbon fiber hull on a submersible that were easily explained by a former truck driver.
Wealthy people’s experience of university is very different from someone who attends purely on merit.
University isn’t some great filter that distinguishes legitimately intelligent people more often than not it’s just a tool to separate social classes based on arbitrary expertise requirements.
I spent way too much of my life beating up on myself for never completing higher education before truly understanding this truth.
You don’t get to use a lack of higher education as an excuse to be ignorant though. Not saying you do, but there are people that take the idea that just because there are stupid people who are highly qualified means that all ‘experts’ can be disregarded. Not true.
There are plenty of intelligent people at uni, just like there are plenty who never did higher education.
The things that both of those groups have in common though is that they are curious, intellectually honest and can be reasoned with when presented with evidence.
I wish more people understood this. Going to some university that costs tons of money isnt what makes you smart, and being smart is less of a reason why people get in then just having connections and money.
And pressure differences for submersible hull are orders of magnitude greater than pressure differences for aircraft hull.
Hell, even a spacecraft hull differential is typically the same as one atmosphere, total. By about 10m down you're already 1 atm of additional force beyond the 1 atm that exists just by existing at sea level. So, at the depth of the Titanic (around 3800 meters) you're at around 380 atm of pressure, give or take.
Bachelors moment
Hey what do you call the dumbest motherfucker who graduates engineering by cramming before every test?
Dumb motherfucker B.Sc Aerospace Engineering
Well... this does tell a tale about the quality of Princeton B.Sc in Aerospace Engineering or the corruption possible at that university.