It reminds me of Chinese culture, where it is considered very rude to express views that differ from the common opinion without giving some serious references to the source of your information.
All my theater friends were quite pleasant, though admittedly I never tried to persuade them that their theater-orthodoxy (whatever that would be) was incorrect and something else is better
@TheMatrixEquation-balance considering how many people have crackpot theories, I think the phrase “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” to be quite apt.
it sure does help if they recognize when they're wrong though
among other things I've coached high-school teams in an engineering competition called the International Space Settlement Design Competition
that was a weird mix of shooting down wild ideas, while also trying to get them to not exactly copy the people who presented introductory engineering stuff / the examples that those people showed
the kid I was just reminded of took about five minutes to believe that he'd been keying stuff into his calculator wrong in some kind of centrifugal force calculation for a spinning habitat area
something weird like acceleration going down as the radius went up, and I pointed out that didn't make sense. I think he didn't understand the omega^2*r form of the equation and kept screwing up the v calculation for v^2/r
It is a two-edged sword. From one side you need to install in kids taste for imagination and creativity. From other side you need a discipline of mind.
just a combination of "should we do this?" along with...fundamental lack of understanding. To the point of thinking that people just have answers about how to build moon colonies
like they would if you were building a shelf
big whiff of "someone has told me to do this. would someone else please tell me how to do this"
I tend to think there are two different aspects to people's development. What is good for a person, and what is good for the economy. A person's creativity and open-mindedness tend to be 'bad' for the economy (in general).
People who get used to multiple-choice answers, don't bother to think much. And they are disciplined at work. It is good for the economy.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told a House committee (April 27) “The explosion, that’s **not a big downer**,”. Nelson said NASA has been in contact with SpaceX and expects the company to be able to launch again soon.
@TheMatrixEquation-balance NASA and the FAA are different entities; that's my point. NASA may be happy, SpaceX may be happy and ready in 2 months, but the FAA may not be happy
