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alloy T56 Elitist
Joined: 25 Jan 2004 Posts: 1716 Location: Vancouver, WA
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QwkTrip 11sec Club
Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 3942 Location: Peoria, IL
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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I like those old movies. So easy to understand! I kept watching videos and saw the one about differentials. It's a hell of lot easier than trying to think in terms of vectors and such. Maybe we're not dumber these days, just too confused. |
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aaron_sK Member
Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 8834 Location: Back in beautiful Tacompton
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 6:23 am Post subject: |
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"So easy, even a girl can downshift!"
Way to go, old-timey Chevy announcer.
QwkTrip wrote: | Maybe we're not dumber these days, just too confused. |
It's not a matter of intellect. The engineers who designed that transmission would not be able to make a telephone call today. The human mind is an extraordinarily adaptive chemical machine... which is to say that it is lazy.
Humans will know what they need to know to survive or they will die. They always have and they always will. Do you know how to kill a wooly mammoth? Are you too stupid to kill a wooly mammoth? Or is it that no one has known how to do that for a millennia because it is no longer valid?
Does anyone even make a car with a manual transmission in it anymore? It is becoming a useless skill to even know how to operate one, much less how one works. |
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QwkTrip 11sec Club
Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 3942 Location: Peoria, IL
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Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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aaron_sK wrote: | Do you know how to kill a wooly mammoth? |
Yeah, .458 Win Mag |
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