essay about engineers

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 2:17:06 AM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:09:52 -0500, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net
wrote:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:16:11 -0800, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com
wrote:

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 12:03:11 -0500, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net
wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:54:45 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 20:28:19 +0000, David Nadlinger
david@klickverbot.at> wrote:

On 21.02.20 7:50 pm, John Larkin wrote:
Here's a pulse generator output stage, as a mouse-bite component.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w9ax8q9u00obnx4/T577_Glob_2.jpg?raw=1

Is that epoxy top for mechanical robustness of some (presumably GaN)
chip, or just for IP protection reasons?

— David

Both. I'm using EPC BGA GaN fets, and they are very fragile. A tiny
bump can knock them off the board, or fracture the chip. They are like
little glass blocks with sharp corners.

We need better epoxy, higher viscosity to cover all the parts, and a
nice way to dispense in production. Maybe a pump nozzle on our Tormach
n/c mill?

It sounds to me like you need a thixotropic epoxy mix. Liquifies when
pumped, then stiffens up so it won't drool off the board.

.<https://www.masterbond.com/properties/thixotropic-adhesives

Joe Gwinn

I remember bad experiences with Master Bond. How are they these days?
They want me to register by filling out forms. No direct email
address. What a nuisance.

I think I want a liquid but high viscosity epoxy. Thixotropic might
not flow into nooks and crannies, and wouldn't look nice and shiny.

Everybody makes the thixotropic epoxy, and all viscosities are
available, not just the pasty stuff shown in the ad. So I'd ask
around.

By definition, thixotropics don't flow. Like mayonaise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thixotropy

John Larkin hasn't posted his definition. In fact thixotropic materials have variable viscosity, which can be decreased by putting a high shear stress on the material, forcing it to flow, after which the viscosity increases with time.

You have to force them to flow, but once you have forced them into some new shape they will tend to stick with it.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

On Sunday, 23 February 2020 18:16:21 UTC, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com

We need better epoxy, higher viscosity to cover all the parts, and a
nice way to dispense in production. Maybe a pump nozzle on our Tormach
n/c mill?

It sounds to me like you need a thixotropic epoxy mix. Liquifies when
pumped, then stiffens up so it won't drool off the board.

.<https://www.masterbond.com/properties/thixotropic-adhesives

Joe Gwinn

I remember bad experiences with Master Bond. How are they these days?
They want me to register by filling out forms. No direct email
address. What a nuisance.

I think I want a liquid but high viscosity epoxy. Thixotropic might
not flow into nooks and crannies, and wouldn't look nice and shiny.

As well as the usual epoxy additives there's also the stuff used for doming.


NT

 

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:15:33 AM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/michael_bloomberg_the_engineer.html



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

That article is written by an ignoramus. Hoover was not an engineer, he was a Stanford educated geologist. And historians and political scientists rank him as 36th best president to date. He was quite brilliant and had decades of experience in executive management of several government agencies and programs as well as cabinet level responsibilities. Even JFK tried to recruit him into his administration, but Hoover declined.

 

[Michael Terrell]

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:15:33 AM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/michael_bloomberg_the_engineer.html

That article states the Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer. He drooped out of the course part way through to return to Plains, Georgia when his dad died. He did graduate from the Naval Academy, but nor for Nuclear Engineering. I knew one man who made it through the course. He was the engineer on the Nautilus when it went under the north pole. He died about ten years ago.

The first Nuclear sub sailed after Jimmy Carter resigned his commission from the U.S. Navy

USS Nautilus (SSN-571)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_(SSN-571)

 

[Phil Allison]

bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:

------------------------------

That article is written by an ignoramus.

** ROTFL- bloggs is the bloody ignoramus.

Hoover was not an engineer,

** The man most certainly was- you fuckhead.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Mining_engineer

he was a Stanford educated geologist.

** That too, but worked as a mining manager and engineer.

Even wrote a text book on the subject.

Even JFK tried to recruit him into his administration, but
Hoover declined.

** Likely because he was almost 90 years old and very unwell.



...... Phil

 

Michael Terrell <terrell.michael.a@gmail.com> wrote in
news:6cffe12a-eedc-4dd0-acf9-dba1f18ba259@googlegroups.com:

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:15:33 AM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/michael_bloomberg
_the_en
gineer.html


That article states the Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer. He
drooped out of the course part way through to return to Plains,
Georgia when his dad died.

No. He was an educated Nuke and was going to be commissioned on
the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) but did not take the commision after his
father died.

He did graduate from the Naval
Academy, but nor for Nuclear Engineering.

That because that was from a different college, idiot. The Naval
Academy is not where a nuke trains for nuclear engineering.

I knew one man who
made it through the course.

Good for you. Mouthy punk.

He was the engineer on the Nautilus
when it went under the north pole. He died about ten years ago.

Oh Boy!

The first Nuclear sub sailed after Jimmy Carter resigned his
commission from the U.S. Navy

Yes, but Carter was to be on the second as a nuclear engineer to
start in 1955 upon its launch 2 years before it was commissioned.
That second sub was the USS Seawolf.

Your hatred for the democratic party is unamerican, punk. Shame it
wasn't you dying ten years ago.

 

On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 6:07:31 PM UTC-5, Phil Allison wrote:

bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:

------------------------------


That article is written by an ignoramus.


** ROTFL- bloggs is the bloody ignoramus.


Hoover was not an engineer,


** The man most certainly was- you fuckhead.

No he wasn't. He was at no time employed as a mining engineer. His original employment was as a mining scout. And from there he progressed to the business aspects of mining operations management.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Mining_engineer


he was a Stanford educated geologist.


** That too, but worked as a mining manager and engineer.

Even wrote a text book on the subject.

That's as far as you can get with it, dimwit?

Here's his book:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/26697/26697-h/26697-h.htm

Even a fool like you can see this is largely about business aspects of mine production. He wrote others on this same concentration on valuation. There is little to no discussion of any detail that might be considered engineering. It is all considerations of high level operations management.

Even JFK tried to recruit him into his administration, but
Hoover declined.


** Likely because he was almost 90 years old and very unwell.

Of course, we all know being very unwell is qualifier for high level political appointment.

..... Phil

 

[Phil Allison]

bloggs.fre...@gmail.com wrote:

-----------------------------

That article is written by an ignoramus.


** ROTFL- bloggs is the bloody ignoramus.


Hoover was not an engineer,


** The man most certainly was- you fuckhead.

No he wasn't. He was at no time employed as a mining engineer.

** He absolutely fucking was.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Mining_engineer

------------------------------------------------------------

he was a Stanford educated geologist.


** That too, but worked as a mining manager and engineer.

Even wrote a text book on the subject.

That's as far as you can get with it,

** Simple fact - not bullshit like all your posts.

Even JFK tried to recruit him into his administration, but
Hoover declined.


** Likely because he was almost 90 years old and very unwell.

Of course, we all know being very unwell is qualifier for high level political appointment.

** Exactly the absurd & insane reply we all expect from a raving psycho.



...... Phil

 

On Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 2:31:02 PM UTC-5, Phil Allison wrote:
Waste of time to converse with you. You're a simple-minded, super ignorant little boor of a person of no importance whatsoever.

 

[Michael Terrell]

On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 5:14:08 PM UTC-5, Michael Terrell wrote:

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:15:33 AM UTC-5, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/michael_bloomberg_the_engineer.html


That article states the Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer. He drooped out of the course part way through to return to Plains, Georgia when his dad died. He did graduate from the Naval Academy, but nor for Nuclear Engineering. I knew one man who made it through the course. He was the engineer on the Nautilus when it went under the north pole. He died about ten years ago.

The first Nuclear sub sailed after Jimmy Carter resigned his commission from the U.S. Navy

USS Nautilus (SSN-571)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_(SSN-571)

Jimmy Carter only took the six month long Reactor OPERATOR'S course, not Nuclear Engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter#Naval_career

 

[bitrex]

On 2/29/20 2:25 AM, bitrex wrote:

The first Nuclear sub sailed after Jimmy Carter resigned his
commission from the U.S. Navy

   Yes, but Carter was to be on the second as a nuclear engineer to
start in 1955 upon its launch 2 years before it was commissioned.
That second sub was the USS Seawolf.

   Your hatred for the democratic party is unamerican, punk.  Shame it
wasn't you dying ten years ago.


Jimmy Carter was such a "pacifist" that he signed off on the design and
deployment of the most advanced ICBM system developed up to that time,
the MX.

Reagan piddled about with Star Wars missile-shield ideas that never went
anywhere just a waste of money, I think Carter subscribed to the idea
that the best "defense" is a huge fucking gun. K.I.S.S.

Or as I think the saying once was "you have to speak a language the
Soviet understands."

 

[bitrex]

On 2/27/20 5:27 AM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

Michael Terrell <terrell.michael.a@gmail.com> wrote in
news:6cffe12a-eedc-4dd0-acf9-dba1f18ba259@googlegroups.com:

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:15:33 AM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/michael_bloomberg
_the_en
gineer.html


That article states the Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer. He
drooped out of the course part way through to return to Plains,
Georgia when his dad died.

No. He was an educated Nuke and was going to be commissioned on
the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) but did not take the commision after his
father died.


He did graduate from the Naval
Academy, but nor for Nuclear Engineering.

That because that was from a different college, idiot. The Naval
Academy is not where a nuke trains for nuclear engineering.

I knew one man who
made it through the course.

Good for you. Mouthy punk.

He was the engineer on the Nautilus
when it went under the north pole. He died about ten years ago.

Oh Boy!


The first Nuclear sub sailed after Jimmy Carter resigned his
commission from the U.S. Navy

Yes, but Carter was to be on the second as a nuclear engineer to
start in 1955 upon its launch 2 years before it was commissioned.
That second sub was the USS Seawolf.

Your hatred for the democratic party is unamerican, punk. Shame it
wasn't you dying ten years ago.

Jimmy Carter was such a "pacifist" that he signed off on the design and
deployment of the most advanced ICBM system developed up to that time,
the MX.

Reagan piddled about with Star Wars missile-shield ideas that never went
anywhere just a waste of money, I think Carter subscribed to the idea
that the best "defense" is a huge fucking gun. K.I.S.S.

 

[Michael Terrell]

On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 2:25:41 AM UTC-5, bitrex wrote:

On 2/27/20 5:27 AM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
Michael Terrell wrote in
news:6cffe12a-eedc-4dd0-acf9-dba1f18ba259@googlegroups.com:

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:15:33 AM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/michael_bloomberg
_the_en
gineer.html


That article states the Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer. He
drooped out of the course part way through to return to Plains,
Georgia when his dad died.

No. He was an educated Nuke and was going to be commissioned on
the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) but did not take the commision after his
father died.


He did graduate from the Naval
Academy, but nor for Nuclear Engineering.

That because that was from a different college, idiot. The Naval
Academy is not where a nuke trains for nuclear engineering.

I knew one man who
made it through the course.

Good for you. Mouthy punk.

He was the engineer on the Nautilus
when it went under the north pole. He died about ten years ago.

Oh Boy!


The first Nuclear sub sailed after Jimmy Carter resigned his
commission from the U.S. Navy

Yes, but Carter was to be on the second as a nuclear engineer to
start in 1955 upon its launch 2 years before it was commissioned.
That second sub was the USS Seawolf.

Your hatred for the democratic party is unamerican, punk. Shame it
wasn't you dying ten years ago.


Jimmy Carter was such a "pacifist" that he signed off on the design and
deployment of the most advanced ICBM system developed up to that time,
the MX.

Reagan piddled about with Star Wars missile-shield ideas that never went
anywhere just a waste of money, I think Carter subscribed to the idea
that the best "defense" is a huge fucking gun. K.I.S.S.

Well, he was a Democrat and they love to destroy things.

 

bitrex <user@example.net> wrote in
newslo6G.74084$Pj7.25404@fx14.iad:

On 2/27/20 5:27 AM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org
wrote:
Michael Terrell <terrell.michael.a@gmail.com> wrote in
news:6cffe12a-eedc-4dd0-acf9-dba1f18ba259@googlegroups.com:

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:15:33 AM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/michael_bloombe
rg _the_en
gineer.html


That article states the Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer.
He drooped out of the course part way through to return to
Plains, Georgia when his dad died.

No. He was an educated Nuke and was going to be commissioned
on
the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) but did not take the commision after
his father died.


He did graduate from the Naval
Academy, but nor for Nuclear Engineering.

That because that was from a different college, idiot. The
Naval
Academy is not where a nuke trains for nuclear engineering.

I knew one man who
made it through the course.

Good for you. Mouthy punk.

He was the engineer on the Nautilus
when it went under the north pole. He died about ten years
ago.

Oh Boy!


The first Nuclear sub sailed after Jimmy Carter resigned his
commission from the U.S. Navy

Yes, but Carter was to be on the second as a nuclear engineer
to
start in 1955 upon its launch 2 years before it was commissioned.
That second sub was the USS Seawolf.

Your hatred for the democratic party is unamerican, punk.
Shame it
wasn't you dying ten years ago.


Jimmy Carter was such a "pacifist" that he signed off on the
design and deployment of the most advanced ICBM system developed
up to that time, the MX.

They only just came out of service in 2005. We have supersubs and
carriers and missile destroyers and littoral vessels, so we no longer
need huge expanses peppered with missile silos for ICBMs. But it was
a great missile system.

I cannot believe that they are $70M each though. That must include
an entire silo for each. Even then that is a lot of money for one
shot.

Predators fitted with SDBs and Hellfires is far better choice.
But we gotz tactical nukes too that are far smaller and more easily
deployed than a silo based unit.

Reagan piddled about with Star Wars missile-shield ideas that
never went anywhere just a waste of money, I think Carter
subscribed to the idea that the best "defense" is a huge fucking
gun. K.I.S.S.

Well, it went nowhere because it got abandoned just like the big
Texas acellerator that got all the way to 90% completion.

You can bet we now need satellites in space that can take out the
birds of other nations, and just like the '70s phone taps, we do not
need to tell anyone that there are guns in space.

Russia currently has a bird up there tailing one of ours. We are
not liking that a bit.

<https://www.space.com/russia-secret-military-satellite-launch-
success-november-2019.html>

<https://time.com/5779315/russian-spacecraft-spy-satellite-space-
force/>

We are in dangerous times, even though it may not feel that way to
most folks around the globe.

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 7:46:55 PM UTC+11, Michael Terrell wrote:

On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 2:25:41 AM UTC-5, bitrex wrote:
On 2/27/20 5:27 AM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
Michael Terrell wrote in
news:6cffe12a-eedc-4dd0-acf9-dba1f18ba259@googlegroups.com:

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:15:33 AM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

<snip>

The first Nuclear sub sailed after Jimmy Carter resigned his
commission from the U.S. Navy

Yes, but Carter was to be on the second as a nuclear engineer to
start in 1955 upon its launch 2 years before it was commissioned.
That second sub was the USS Seawolf.

Your hatred for the democratic party is unamerican, punk. Shame it
wasn't you dying ten years ago.

Jimmy Carter was such a "pacifist" that he signed off on the design and
deployment of the most advanced ICBM system developed up to that time,
the MX.

Reagan piddled about with Star Wars missile-shield ideas that never went
anywhere just a waste of money, I think Carter subscribed to the idea
that the best "defense" is a huge fucking gun. K.I.S.S.

Well, he was a Democrat and they love to destroy things.

John Larkin's link to

<https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/michael_bloomberg_the_engineer.html>

does reveal a a generous source of particularly moronic right-wing propaganda directed against the Democratic Party.

I was particularly impressed by

"Breadline Bernie Makes It Harder for the Left to Hide Its Love Affair with Communism - William Sullivan"

Bernie Sanders is a democratic socialist, an heir to the tradition that got Karl Marx and the proto-Communists thrown out of the international socialist movement back in 1871. They've been anti-communist for nearly 150 years now, and the message still hasn't penetrated the average right-wing skull.

The proposition that "Democrats love to destroy things" would be in the same tradition of fatuous pig-ignorance.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in
news:43eebb01-fd3c-4ff4-bfc9-19b8c788b787@googlegroups.com:

The proposition that "Democrats love to destroy things" would be
in the same tradition of fatuous pig-ignorance.

Especially considering the 'destruction' being PERPETRATED by the
dangerous buffoon the Terrell Twerp voted for. He has this thing about
'dismantling' anything that got done (by both sides, BTW) during the
Obama era.

Donald John Trump is an extreme racist. Don't think for a moment
that he isn't.

 

[bitrex]

On 2/29/20 7:53 AM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

bitrex <user@example.net> wrote in
newslo6G.74084$Pj7.25404@fx14.iad:

On 2/27/20 5:27 AM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org
wrote:
Michael Terrell <terrell.michael.a@gmail.com> wrote in
news:6cffe12a-eedc-4dd0-acf9-dba1f18ba259@googlegroups.com:

On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 10:15:33 AM UTC-5,
jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/02/michael_bloombe
rg _the_en
gineer.html


That article states the Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer.
He drooped out of the course part way through to return to
Plains, Georgia when his dad died.

No. He was an educated Nuke and was going to be commissioned
on
the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) but did not take the commision after
his father died.


He did graduate from the Naval
Academy, but nor for Nuclear Engineering.

That because that was from a different college, idiot. The
Naval
Academy is not where a nuke trains for nuclear engineering.

I knew one man who
made it through the course.

Good for you. Mouthy punk.

He was the engineer on the Nautilus
when it went under the north pole. He died about ten years
ago.

Oh Boy!


The first Nuclear sub sailed after Jimmy Carter resigned his
commission from the U.S. Navy

Yes, but Carter was to be on the second as a nuclear engineer
to
start in 1955 upon its launch 2 years before it was commissioned.
That second sub was the USS Seawolf.

Your hatred for the democratic party is unamerican, punk.
Shame it
wasn't you dying ten years ago.


Jimmy Carter was such a "pacifist" that he signed off on the
design and deployment of the most advanced ICBM system developed
up to that time, the MX.


They only just came out of service in 2005. We have supersubs and
carriers and missile destroyers and littoral vessels, so we no longer
need huge expanses peppered with missile silos for ICBMs. But it was
a great missile system.

I cannot believe that they are $70M each though. That must include
an entire silo for each. Even then that is a lot of money for one
shot.

IIRC it was built partly in response to a believed "missile gap" in the
late 70s where it looked like the Soviets had technological advantage in
ballistic missile tech and might be able to pull off a "first strike"
leaving the US unable to retaliate effectively.

I think both Carter and Reagan believed this at least in part. In
hindsight I think while the Soviets could build some decent hardware the
equal of the US they were always way more fearsome on paper than what
they were capable of in reality.

Around the same time they were thought to be "winning" the cold war,
1982, the Soviet client states were being pasted in the Middle East.
Israel was easily blowing their stuff out of the sky in Lebanon and
trashing MiGs in shipping crates before they could even be unpacked.
Soviets couldn't do shit to even help their "friends."

I think the idea the Soviets were thinking about a "first strike" in the
early 80s or that the whole operation wouldn't (maybe literally) fall
apart before it got off the ground is a bit silly in hindsight

Predators fitted with SDBs and Hellfires is far better choice.
But we gotz tactical nukes too that are far smaller and more easily
deployed than a silo based unit.

Reagan piddled about with Star Wars missile-shield ideas that
never went anywhere just a waste of money, I think Carter
subscribed to the idea that the best "defense" is a huge fucking
gun. K.I.S.S.

Well, it went nowhere because it got abandoned just like the big
Texas acellerator that got all the way to 90% completion.

You can bet we now need satellites in space that can take out the
birds of other nations, and just like the '70s phone taps, we do not
need to tell anyone that there are guns in space.

Russia currently has a bird up there tailing one of ours. We are
not liking that a bit.

https://www.space.com/russia-secret-military-satellite-launch-
success-november-2019.html

https://time.com/5779315/russian-spacecraft-spy-satellite-space-
force/

We are in dangerous times, even though it may not feel that way to
most folks around the globe.