I wonder how many engineering university graduates are in prisons around the world: <Engineers are good guys, very practical and dependable and rational. >
My guess is 0%. Okay, that's a little dishonestly misleading for the innumerate and I should go to three significant figures and write 0.04%. Which is just a guess.
Another interesting thing about engineers is that they win 0% of New Zealand's Good Bloke and Good Sheila awards by Governments such as "Order of Merit". For years I have gone right through the lists looking for engineers and one year there was one [which quite shocked me to see even one]. There have been a couple of scientists, but they are grossly under represented. dpmc.govt.nz
Politicians and their acolytes are especially noble creatures who award themselves awards by the hundred.
Hmmm,,. looks as though I should fine tune my theory on engineers and exclude foreigners: usatoday.com
I should note I mean university graduate engineers. The word engineer is used for all sorts of purposes, such as a maintenance guy who puts oil in machinery in a factory.
Google doesn't make it easy to find statistics of engineers in prison.
African Americans in prison is an easier search. 1 million in prison: socialistaction.org
Hmmm, I suppose we should only count melanin-deficient native engineers in prison but I guess the ratio for melanin-rich graduate engineers in prison is also very low. The ability to understand third order partial differential equations and Fourier transforms and the background to succeed in getting through the education system no doubt far outweighs the cultural impact of friends from the crime scene.
Engineers, to succeed, have to do things to match reality. Politicians, lawyers and others see reality as perception and power to be melded to suit their own wishes. Politicians and lawyers will pass laws that say water shall flow uphill.
Actually, to my dismay, water can flow uphill. I did some DIY plumbing once, involving a header tank, hot water cylinder, an overflow pipe and a ceiling. I know the physics but in clambering around in the plumbing I got too clever and decided to leave the overflow inside the roof, draining into the header tank.
My carelessness resulted in water flowing uphill, from the header tank, into the hot water cylinder, up the overflow pipe to up above the header tank. Hot water is less dense than cold so a column of cold water in a half of a U shaped pipe will support a higher level of hot water in the other half. So the water level in the two parts of the U will be different. Rather obviously, but that's life in DIY when not paying attention.
When I woke hearing rain, it seemed nice [rain is nice when sunggly in a house at night]. But wait, the rain was IN THE HOUSE. I realized quickly that it was probably related to my plumbing of that day. The hall outside our bedroom door was raining though the ceiling.
I forget the exact configuration of the piping, but the simple-minded basis "water finds its own level" blunder was the problem. Silly me. If not sticking to rote rules on how to do things, such as putting the overflow pipe through the roof, one had better make sure the physics of the plan are right.
I thought I had got enough height for the overflow pipe above the header tank, but admit that I hadn't actually calculated the differential expansion.
Mqurice
PS: Why would somebody eat something different from previously? Okay, if out somewhere, one graciously accepts what's offered. As failed DIY plumbers know, it's best to stick with the tried and true. |
