MP, nice to be accused of being wholly logical for a change, I used to dream of being wholly logical ;-)
Some great analogies of that which we discuss in Lamb Lies Down too. The footer of my blog has a permanent reminder that Rael is not real. Eventually your door guys will need an engineer (or a neat trick, ingenuity) unless they find a "foundation" to stand on outside one of those doors. Ian On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Michael Poloukhine <[email protected]> wrote: >> Michael as a professional engineer (who likes Dennett's engineering >> analogies of evolution), I might extend your architects view ... >> >> You might "really need" a fully glazed exterior doorway, but sorry you >> can't have one. We can ony fit doorways from the inside, there are no >> sky-hooks outside for us pragmatic engineers to build the architects >> dream. (Interestingly full-glazed buildings provide a lot of good >> architect / engineeering analogies I suspect.) We can only build from >> the inside out. We can look out but we can't do stuff out there >> without building cranes and that crane always has to poke through your >> glazing from an internal structure. > > MP: LoL. > Leave it to an engineer to sully a perfectly good analogy AND with a straight > face give a wholly logical explanation of why our house can't have a front > door. > ;-) > > So then, unless the engineer left us a sledge in the house, windows are all we > can use to get out, and we'd better get the door guys to help us figure out > how > to open them. > > Or Lilywhite Lilith ;-) > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
