"The specification was to run the engine with Sodium Silicate at 2000 RPM
until the RPM started to drop. Then additional throttle was added to force
the engine to destroy itself.
Or that is the way I understand the process."
Was anyone else as sickened by this as I was? What in God's name is
accomplished by destroying a perfectly useful machine of any kind?
Deliberately rendering it useless? I'm sorry. y'all, but this is dead
against the religion I was raised up in, the one whose Doxology goes:
Use it up,
Wear it out,
Make do or do without.
You use stuff until it needs to be rebuilt, and you keep using it until
it can't be rebuilt anymore. This is called Thrift, which me and my kind
were brought up to believe was even closer to godliness than cleanliness
was.
Will Owen
A bunch of old crocks nobody is gonna cube!
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