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Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:33 AM

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ChrisM@Work

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:56 AM

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I have to admit, when I saw

Wally Wallington...(Thanks Curtis Curtington)

it crossed my mind that this was an early April Fools prank, but no, not at all. Very impressive indeed.

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Understanding and using APPLY, (I) and (II) Paul White
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Julie Breutzmann

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:50 AM

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Fascinating. PBS could have used him in their "Secrets of the Dead" series.

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K. Brian Kelley

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:50 AM

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Engineers are very much alike, whether they are in the traditional engineering fields or are "system engineers" and whether or not they have the title or not. Give 'em enough time and they'll typically figure out a way to do things others think are impossible with whatever tools and resources they have on hand. :)

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Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:02 AM

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share your knowledge with others. With the power of so many minds working on problems and sharing their accomplishments, who knows what we will accomplish?

Thanks - an inspiring message.. for not only technology but for all aspects of human endeavor .. conquering of disease, eliminating famine etc., etc.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

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Miles Neale

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:56 PM

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Sometime back you asked us about sayings we though were interesting, great, or worthy. Someone added to the list "It is only impossible because I have not done it yet" That appears to be Wally's motto.

Great find and inspiration!

Miles...

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:39 PM

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Glad you enjoyed it and both a few friends and my son have asked it we can do this. We may give it a try sometime!

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Matt Miller (#4)

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:51 PM

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Aristotle and Archimedes would be proud (one of them would be).

Archimedes:

"Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, and I will Lift the World"

And Aristotle had his students expound on it (formalize that out).

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Jeff Moden

Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:21 PM

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"The difficult can be done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer." — Army Corp. of Engineers

--Jeff Moden

"RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for "Row-By-Agonizing-Row".

First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
Stop thinking about what you want to do to a row... think, instead, of what you want to do to a column."

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Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 12:16 PM

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I was there to see the rocks and I did not find it amazing. Maybe it was me.
First no on knew why those rocks were there, it was not a building, someone suggested maybe it was a place to worship. But they were a whole bunch of rocks. But the pyramid and the Great wall was built by people and with the technology at that time it was unbelievable how they could build such monument.

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