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Being absolutely positive when working with designs is very lucrative because you have to be precise. Glad that you were able to share this with us so that we too could learn from these examples. When you are dealing with the many variables it is good to be able to refer to something else in order to help determine what portions of the design might need further attention.

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It is important to awaken new ways to discover things. Being able to see a lesson like this is definately an eye opening experience I hope that many others will see this and learn from this as well.

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Hello Attagirl,
It is only when I know everything is fine that I know that something will go wrong. :) Do not take an umbrella when rain is pending is a certain way to get wet. Approach unknown territory and you must expect the unexpected. Much of what I do these days in retirement is very experimental and directed towards those educators, schools and students around the world. I would not do anything different in my life but I would try to be smarter and more rounded out in the sciences. Since I am not an engineer or designer I can afford the luxury of being an experimentor, inventor without the penalties for failure to hurt me in my career. My job as a garbage man that takes all discarded items from the house to the garbage cans outside of our house, is a very secure career for me now. My life's work in retirement now is pure fun and very exciting. Did you ever see the Barilla Fettuccini Pasta Bridge that I built? It was done to help teachers that were buying expensive balsa woods to use in their classes. It helps to inspire our young people to become interested in the technical world by buildng and testng bridges they make. I also designed and built perhaps a one of a kind, Solar Heated Duplex Birdhouse that uses no electric or moving parts. It got too hot and I had to shut it down. These articles might even be still posted someplace on the internet on one of my other blogs. It was very well received in the engineering realms and got the attention of teachers around the world. That was the whole purpose of doing these experiments. Also, the Pasta Bridge is now on permanent display at the Great Hall at our local University here. Thank you for the feedback. Have a great one. :)

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I have gone bewildered on seeing all these. Usually i will not engage in any of such activities. When my friends try to solve sudoku game, i will not stand there. Because i will not like to give strain to my brain. lol. But certainly these examples have given a sharp thought in me.And as corporal willy said, it is always important for us to think out of the box and expect the unexpected. i do it in my favourite subjects. I hate maths.I like computer science. So i usually write programs and would expect errors to solve them.

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Hi Descorpio,
Sorry I did not respond sooner. I've been on Santa Claus missions lately. You and I share a similar thing. I appreciate math but I stink at doing it. I draw a mental blank with most math problems so I rely upon some math solvers and my favorite one of all is Maplesoft. It is like using a motorcycle in a bicycle race. :) Since I was never born with a sponge in my brain for soaking up math concepts, I need a crutch to fall back on and that one is the very best there is. It can even show me what my problem is going to look like in a 3D animation. I'm just an idea type of a guy. I depend upon much more intelligent persons to take my ideas and run with them. In other words, if I crash landed on Mars, I would set up a hot dog stand right away. Thanks for the comments. Have a great one. Bye.

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Corporal Willy, I think you are too hard on yourself. In several blog posts and again on this last comment above, you make deprecating comments about yourself that are obviously untrue. You don't need "more intelligent persons" to help you - you are quite obviously intelligent. Not being wonderful at math does not make you less intelligent at all.

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Hi Busybee,
Sorry I didn't mean to imply that I was stupid, unless you ask my wife. :) I am having the best part of my life right now in retirement. I have rubbed elbows with rich and famous, smart and dumb, big and small and I can honestly say that I have enjoyed everyone I meet. I work hard at trying to produce more engineers with all the things that I do these days as a volunteer to the fifth largest school district in the USA. That is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. I spend many hours working on various projects in schools or for schools and even sit on the curriculum advisory committee here to oversee and suggest changes for our future engineers, scientists and technologists. Yet, I myself am not an engineer or scientist or technologist. If I have learned anything over the years it could be in part from my age. :) Like I said, I am having a really good time helping others get to where we need them in the USA. I also do not stop there because I submit science project ideas to the world of science teachers using my SolidWorks program. Things could not be any better and if there is something that I don't know of, or how to do it there is a world out there where I can get the help. So with a world behind me what are my limits to knowledge? Thank you very much for the kind comments. I'll try not to do that in the future. Have a wonderful holiday season. Bye.