This made me smile, as another nerdy engineer.

Sep 27, 2014 10:24 PM

This made me smile, as another nerdy engineer.

I read laplace as "lapdance" and thought, I knew it! Engineers just add random words to confuse me.

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When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction

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on the first body. (CURSE YOU CHARACTER LIMIT)

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Those teeth.

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Yarp. He was 80-81 then.

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I think that's what he was talking about. Engineering accomplishments.

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didn't understand but I think it must be fun to be an engineer

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Everybody thinks of Neil Armstrong as the astronaut, but he was also an enthusiastic engineer.

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Yeah that part I did understand

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Oh, you mean all the jargon? A bunch of pretty metaphors and wordplay (e.g., there's a mathematical operation called "Laplace transform").

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