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   JB Emmons (jbe@esq.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 01:52:36 JST JB Emmons

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   Incidentally, engineers are often a lot of fun to cross-examine, because all you have to do is insinuate they might not be the smartest person in the room and they will absolutely burn anything and everything to the ground--including their own reports--to prove you wrong.

   They can walk away from a deposition feeling like a million bucks, and then 6 months later be like "what, who is this 'Daubert' guy that the judge trusts over me?"

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     JB Emmons (jbe@esq.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 01:52:37 JST JB Emmons

     As the son of an engineer who grew up in a city of rocket scientists, I think the most believable aspect of "The Three-Body Problem" is that a bunch of scientists would see their experiments yield highly unexplainable results and, instead of thinking "maybe I screwed up the tests" or "I'm really bad at this," they just conclude "welp I guess physics doesn't exist" and kill themselves. That's the self-confidence of a true engineer if I ever saw it.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.