Hi Roger and non-Rogers, I agree Roger. Except for unexpected discoveries, facts are generally the end result of a long line of "What If's".
The folks who are conceptually creative and good at "What If" are not all necessarily skilled in the crafts required to turn the "what if" into a fact or find out why it cannot be a fact. Some folks have extraordinary skills for turning ideas into physical reality but are not very good at generating the ideas. I am a bit of both of these types and have found that when I have exhausted all of the 5 or 6 ways I thought of to accomplish something, sometimes just an anecdote (some guy in Nebraska who went into his barn, took parts from his tractor,hay bailer,dead toaster and wires/welds them together and now is producing all the electricity for his farm.) is all I need for inspiration to find a workable solution for my goal. It all starts with ideas and we all need help with that. Ideas are reflections of experiences in personal history. David [email protected] wrote: > > In a message dated 6/26/00 6:02:40 AM EST, [email protected] writes: > > << Engineers do not speculate, only deal with > proven facts. Technicians speculate, not engineers. :-) >> > > Bob: Speculation is NOT needed for maintaining the status quo; engineers are > very good at that. Discovery, on the other hand, REQUIRES speculation. It's > called a working hypothesis. From it, comes procedural planning, equipment > design, preliminary testing, and data gathering. Finally, a report is written > so that other professionals can review the conclusions to reject or accept > the working hypothesis, or, as is most often the case, a recommendation is > made to have other researchers attempt to duplicate these initial results. > Roger > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> -- E-mail: [email protected] Fax to: 1-253-681-1133 ____________NetZero Free Internet Access and Email_________ Download Now http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html Request a CDROM 1-800-333-3633 ___________________________________________________________
