RE: The Golden Statue
April 29, 2012 at 9:36 pm
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2012 at 9:37 pm by Cyberman.)
Drich Wrote:Do you personally know how your refrigerator works? The A/C in your house? How Your Car works? The Airplane when you fly?
Actually, yes. Yes I do know these things. And not because I know how to use Google, either. I learned the principles of heat exchange, which is how 'fridges work, in physics classes at school. The same place I also learned the principles of flight - actually I learned about that at primary school. I also read around these and many other subjects in my own time to increase my understanding. I trained as a car mechanic after leaving school; I can basically strip an engine down to its component parts and fit them back together again (in fact I have, many times). If by A/C you mean Alternating Current - mains electricity - that's something else I learned in physics class. If, on the other hand, you mean Air Conditioning, I never learned the mechanics of that directly; however, I do have enough education such that understanding its principles wouldn't be a problem.
Even if I didn't have even a basic understanding of these things, I'd hate to think I'd be so stupid as to try and cook with a 'fridge. Why - is that what you'd do in the absence of instructions otherwise?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
