🚀 go-pugleaf

So WTF is your point....whether the general public has the mental capacity
to answer a simple poll...or is it to show off your degree Dr.
Engineer....get a job!

"Fabrikant" <benny_patrick7@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124649167.790896.262250@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I have noticed that TV stations often put various questions to the
> public inviting to call or to vote on-line.  Here are some examples.
> Do you think the shuttle program should be discontinued? (YES, NO) Do
> you think Iran is close to developing nuclear weapons? (YES, NO)
>
> I have a doctoral degree in Engineering and I would not dare even to
> try to respond to the first question.  When the first Sputnik appeared,
> everybody thought about possibility of weapons in space and this is
> effectively why the whole thing was initiated.  Only later on we
> understood the remarkable applications of this technology for
> communications.  The same goes for the present research.  We can not
> even imagine, what results might come out of it.  So, to answer this
> question, one has to perform a very complicated analysis of the money
> spent on space research as compared with some alternative spending.
> General public can not possibly do that.
>
> The second question about Iran, I do not think even the top CIA
> official would know the answer, let alone general public.  Here is my
> suggestion for questions, which TV stations can ask public to respond:
>
> 1. Is the square root singularity of stress distribution near an
> angular point of a rigid punch still valid? (YES, NO)
>
> 2. Is it possible to obtain a solution of semi-infinite crack problem
> as a limiting case of a circular crack problem? (YES, NO)
>
> 3. Is the integral of the square of the Bessel function of zero order
> with argument "x" over the interval from zero to infinity finite? (YES,
> NO)
>
> All the questions above do make sense, so try to answer them and after
> a while I shall tell you what are the right answers.
>
> Fabrikant
>