Blurt!Commonplace Book

engineering

“[Y]ou are now operating a small thermal refinery that is making light short-chained vaporous hydrocarbons from what was once $8-a-quart oil. They are being conveniently routed to the cabin through carefully formed channels in the heating system, plus the rust holes in the floor provided by Mother Nature herself over the past few decades.”

posted Sep. 14, 2022, 8:00pm

“In 2001, a senior Boeing engineer named L. Hart Smith published a paper criticizing the business strategy behind offshoring production, noting that vital engineering tasks were being done in ways that seemed less costly but would end up destroying the company.”

posted Mar. 7, 2020, 8:20pm

“The sharp turns and the difference in floor levels at the junction prove conclusively that the tunnel was excavated from both ends. At the junction itself, the floor level drops 60 centimeters from north to south, a discrepancy of less than one-eighth of a percent of the distance excavated.”

posted Feb. 23, 2020, 8:29pm