Re: water pipe thk calculation

Christopher Wright wrote:

> On Sep 27, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Erik Scheir wrote:
>
>>How many times will one ask the same question again?
>
> If your name were Chris instead of Erik, all the 'No such thing as a
> stupid question' people would be on your åss like a duck on a june bug.
>
> And to answer your post, people will keep asking that sort of question
> as long as they think that engineering is just a matter of than
> plugging numbers into a formula that they don't have to understand.

Yes, but "plugging numbers into a formula" has become so much easier over the past 20 years, hasn't it.

Sometimes people that are new to a list ask questions just "to keep the discussion going" as if it was personally up to them to do so. In these cases they generally haven't searched the list archives (which I admit can be a pain and time-consuming to do), and even if they did, they'd likely still post the same question again thinking that the answers might be different this time.

Another sociological issue is that some new list members will post messages simply to publicly "join the group" while others are happy to lurk until something relevant to them comes up.

Paul Received on Tue Sep 27 21:54:00 2005