We have all (well, at least all of us here) become too wise to the propaganda-style approach. It weakens arguments and saps credibility. I'm sure there are many legitimate concerns and good arguments to be made, but watching something like this that treats me like an idiot is more likely to push me in the opposite direction of that intended.

Imagine if Tolkien did the Hubbard thing. That would have turned out much more interesting.

My father was an anesthesiologist at the Bethesda Naval Hospital for a while, and, pretty much like all patients being prepped for surgery, they would do a lot of rambling. And, also like drunk people, the things they tend to most want to talk about are things that they can't normally talk about. Apparently he heard some really interesting things.

I dunno, I can appreciate his style. If you've ever had to use one of those things all day long, day in and day out, especially on high things like ceilings and walls, it's exhausting as hell. The vibration just beats the hell out of you. Even when I was well used to it, I still had to use a work for five minutes, rest for five minutes pattern if I was going to keep it up.

So... if I'm sick, the krankenwagen is going to take me to the krankenhaus... presumably for some kranken. I don't like the sound of that at all.

Just a giant tube of silicone caulk, and that'll fix up no problem.

It will be interesting to see how combining an allowance of 5 engine blocks with totally new engine works out... particularly after the results of testing.

In the pool amongst my friends, I have 12 cars managing to finish at Melbourne.

Anyone know off hand whether the turbo counts as part of the "complete engine unit?"

I was just wondering about this the other day. At the gas station I go to, some of the pumps have different nozzles for whatever reason. With the blue ones, it shuts off and won't give any more when my tank is only 3/4 full. With the green ones I can fill it up all the way. It's pretty annoying and didn't happen with my old car.

edit: Oh, and not that he necessarily is, but doesn't it strike you that the guy presenting comes off as a little too dim to be presenting this sort of video?

Yes, probably in that case you would not be intuiting, but inferring. That is perhaps one of the funny things about intuition. Once you do understand those concepts, have you 'lost' your ability to intuit about such things?

That may account for why so many people (dare I say) fear science. As you say though, looked at another way, by learning and deeply internalizing the previously unintuitive concepts, you develop a more complex and Truer form of intuition. A person, however, who cannot or will not put forth the effort to internalize unintuitive concepts is condemned to live in a world governed by strange principles they do not understand. I can see how that may be a disturbing and frightening way to live.

The easy way out, of course, is to say, "it is god's will that the world works this way, and god's will is unknowable." I can see the comfort that can be found in that, and even a glimmer of wisdom there, so I should make the disclaimer that I don't believe this is a bad thing *when applied with intelligence and thoughtfulness.*

Naturally, it doesn't have to be 'god' either. It could simply be an acceptance that some things are beyond what can be truly understood in a single lifetime. Personally, I try to find some sort of a balance--particularly because I'm an engineer and sometimes I just have to accept that something works without really understanding how. For instance, I rely a good deal on quantum mechanical phenomena that I only understand in the crudest sense, and I just have to be satisfied that I can, without any genuine intuitive understanding, mechanically manipulate symbols on a page and create something that nevertheless works. Attempting to intuit on that level (though it may be fun as an exercise), is beyond me personally, and properly in the realm of academia. It's why I have so much respect for this guy and his silly spinning wheel.

As for things like existential questions of the soul and free will and all that? Well, I'm already way too far off topic, and I only got this far because of the couple glasses of wine I had with dinner.

In response to a question posed above about this being number 1, there is something about watching people who are very good at their jobs working that I find appealing. I'm not sure why, really. Another example would be the Spanish bricklayer video a week or so back.

Oh, I wouldn't worry. Nobody understands string theories; not even the physicists who came up with them (especially not them).

It actually kind of annoys me that phones are different than numeric keypads. I have no real preference for one over the other, but it means in both cases if I make the mistake of thinking about where the numbers are rather than just hitting the right ones, it takes me a few moments to figure it out.

Wait... since the Japanese word for "nipple" is "nipple," that implies they never bothered putting a name to those things until after regular contact with the West? I find that a little hard to believe.

Made my brain hurt a bit until I figured it out (in a good way).

Anyways, that's awesome.