"...however the second is likely untrue, since in my experience idiots are quite likely to be the last to realize..."
Isn't realizing you're an idiot a type of catch 22? An idiot will be the last to realize it....thus someone who does realize it is not an idiot....but then again, they are an idiot because they don't realize that admitting idiocy frees them from being one....and so on and so forth
Which just kind of shows what I always thought.....everyone is an idiot....
I grew up in a coal mining area of Illinois. The worlds largest shovel (Marion 6360) was in the mine where my dad worked...and it used the same crawlers that NASA made for the space shuttle. Down at NASA, they have the thing crawl out on a carefully leveled bed of pea gravel....but down in the mines, they had some mats to lay down, but the crawlers would still crunch over stuff. Apparently, when some of the NASA people came up to look at how the shovel was doing on their crawler system, they were utterly horrified at the conditions...not one of them thought it possible for the crawlers to perform in half so "bad" of conditions and still work for any amount of time. The crawlers worked all the way till the shovel burnt in the early 90's and the thing was scrapped (an oil fire hot enough to split open the inches thick steel skin of the sucker)...
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"...however the second is likely untrue, since in my experience idiots are quite likely to be the last to realize..."
....except me of course :)
Isn't realizing you're an idiot a type of catch 22? An idiot will be the last to realize it....thus someone who does realize it is not an idiot....but then again, they are an idiot because they don't realize that admitting idiocy frees them from being one....and so on and so forth
Which just kind of shows what I always thought.....everyone is an idiot....
I grew up in a coal mining area of Illinois. The worlds largest shovel (Marion 6360) was in the mine where my dad worked...and it used the same crawlers that NASA made for the space shuttle. Down at NASA, they have the thing crawl out on a carefully leveled bed of pea gravel....but down in the mines, they had some mats to lay down, but the crawlers would still crunch over stuff. Apparently, when some of the NASA people came up to look at how the shovel was doing on their crawler system, they were utterly horrified at the conditions...not one of them thought it possible for the crawlers to perform in half so "bad" of conditions and still work for any amount of time. The crawlers worked all the way till the shovel burnt in the early 90's and the thing was scrapped (an oil fire hot enough to split open the inches thick steel skin of the sucker)...
That's odd...I thought it sounded like a hole full of nothing...