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2020-04-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Dr. SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD Crushes Dr. Fauci (video)
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 His motto when he ran against Liz Warren for Mass. Senator in 2018 - 'Only a Real Indian can defeat the Fake Indian'.

(full disclosure - Shiva's a former client of mine, he's a really arrogant prick.)
Posted by Raj 2020-04-20 08:34||   2020-04-20 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Pretty ballsy to say at age 14 that he invented E-mail.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-20 08:42||   2020-04-20 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 He's full of crap on the e-mail thingy.

On a humor note
Tucker Investigates: How did Chris Cuomo get into Yale?
Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-20 12:52||   2020-04-20 12:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Do you know how you can tell if someone went to Harvard? Don't worry, they will tell you.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-20 12:53||   2020-04-20 12:53|| Front Page Top

#5 #1: Hey Raj, former? Smart man you are.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-20 15:15||   2020-04-20 15:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Charles Emerson Winchester, the Third
Posted by Clem 2020-04-20 15:18||   2020-04-20 15:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Okay, 'fessing up.
I got a really good education there in Chemistry and Physics, which later became Pchem as I advanced. The professors were great, the labs were amazing. That said, my advisors were younger than I (and were out of sync with me, as I was coming off 10 years in the Army, Infantry, 11B4P). Fate smiled on the Damned Infantry, and I ended up with a very good one, maybe the best; Edward M. Purcell. He was retired (emeritus) but made a huge difference in my life and education. I worked in the Physics machine shop at his behest; they taught me a lot, all very practical and useful still. Before that my last 3+ years in the Army was spent at MIT. While overseas, I had taken a round through my helmet. It bounced off my (thick) skull but left consequential damage. My division commander MADE (created) a position there for me. Ring knockers. I taught Light and Heavy Weapons and Land Navigation to the student body, and took courses in Physics, Calc, Chemistry and EE. I ran into a few like this Professor, but let their prejudices bounce off me. There were far more great people than not. I think I am the luckiest person on the planet.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-20 16:26||   2020-04-20 16:26|| Front Page Top

#8 "#4 Do you know how you can tell if someone went to Harvard? Don't worry, they will tell you." That is funny, and true! There was a movie with that line I think.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-20 16:31||   2020-04-20 16:31|| Front Page Top

#9 So, a Vegan, a Crossfit athlete, and a Harvard Guy walk into a bar...
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-20 16:47||   2020-04-20 16:47|| Front Page Top

#10 And that was ONE person.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-20 16:53||   2020-04-20 16:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Good on you Mike!
Posted by Woodrow 2020-04-20 18:21||   2020-04-20 18:21|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey Raj, former? Smart man you are.

Whiskey Mike - I ain't that smart, but when I dealt with him, his attitude was always 'and I want this done now'. In retrospect I just should've charged him the Bitch Tax (standard billing rate plus 50%) but I wound up hanging up on him on one phone call. I then got baked so I could calm down a bit and then I called him back.

'Hey, Raj, I think we got cut off.'

'No - I hung up on you because you're being a jackoff!'

At that point, the end was near so I just walked away.
Posted by Raj 2020-04-20 19:06||   2020-04-20 19:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Ah, Purcell. The first guy, I think, to show that electric charges are not acted on by magnetic fields, but only by electric fields in their relativistic rest frame.
Posted by KBK 2020-04-20 21:09||   2020-04-20 21:09|| Front Page Top

#14 His findings had a big impact on everything we are about today. I remember his 'discovery' of magnetic resonance. I had to fight my way through relativistic expressions of electric fields (where do we start?) but while not sure I completely understood it (yeah I can do the math but understanding is something else) I tried to use it. AND it seemed to work. Look for weird patents coming soon to this planet. That work in the real world.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-20 21:28||   2020-04-20 21:28|| Front Page Top

#15 There are certain paradoxes that don’t seem to resolve. Agreement on the interpretation is not universal.
Posted by KBK 2020-04-20 22:27||   2020-04-20 22:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Yes. I miss him.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-04-20 22:52||   2020-04-20 22:52|| Front Page Top

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