September 09, 2010 05:20AM
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Registered: 17 years ago
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Cladking wrote
>"He should have tried tungsten first."
More sound bite placebos. Look, if you randomly try three digit combinations to open someone's locked briefcase, at after 570 tries hit it on 717, saying "he should have tried #717 first" is fascetious.
How would they possibly have the answer before the trials?
And that in a nutshell shows two pitfalls that plague you...
1) You assume it's possible to take knowledge from one time period back into the past to intuit a solution. It isn't. One must stay very aware when aspects of understanding became available and NOT make that knowledge available before that point.
In short not only didn't our tester above know #717 would open the briefcase before the 571 trial, he COULDN'T have known...
2) You disrespect the very effort involved in trials like that. In fact, it's quite possible you are so averse to large amounts of actual effort, you avoid respecting such effort by others who are not so averse to it.
In short, simply because you wouldn't try up to 1,000 combinations to open that lock (or read 100 books on Ancient egypt when it's easier to "ask Wiki"), doesn't mean we should dismiss the opinions and accomplishments of anyone who does!
Jammer
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