i talked to some students at my school who study engineering a few times and like all they do is make shitty robots that tip over bottles and shit? where's the practical use for this after school i just dont understand

    • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Its weird how I forget about the Death Tunnels yet I'm reminded of them every 2-4 weeks. Like my body physiologically rejects this idea.

    • ElonMarx [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      people would have probably already died in Elon Musks death tunnels

      Ah, but we don't know that people haven't!

    • ufologist [any]
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      4 years ago

      Also the planes, tanks, and ships that launch those missiles. And to be fair as well the bus that those schoolchildren were in when their missile hit it. And the road it was on!

      • acealeam [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        And the road it was on!

        civil gang civil gang

        #notworkingforraytheon

  • Krag [any]
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    4 years ago

    Hello, I am an engineer who designs electrical systems for buildings. I like to think that, for the most part, I am reducing harm in the world by creating buildings that don't catch on fire.

        • PaulWall [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          well if the boys from /c/finance and all get together maybe we can get our own chip manufacturing off the ground. i’ve been thinking about moving into research and majors based on figuring out how to manufacture computing parts. we could literally build the peoples’ chip

    • ferristriangle [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Huawei is worker owned, and they're shifting towards manufacturing their own chips.

      Ya know, just in case you ever wanted to Brain Drain the US and hop overseas.

          • spectre [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            As a note, a lot of european countries quote their salaries post-tax. When I was browsing around and saw their engineering positions being paid half or less than an American equivalent I was a bit thrown off for a moment till I factored that in.

              • spectre [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Yeah I think that as an engineer, you still can get paid better in the US at the end of the day (everything depends, of course), but once I re-ran some numbers, it made more sense. I could also be wrong, but I figured someone would jump in and correct me.

  • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    They depolarized the warp core, scrape the gunk out of the Jeffrey's tubes, re-allocate power, and push the warp engines to their limits. What they aren't is miracle workers

      • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        We're getting ionized tachyon interference that's disrupting the range of our annondyne regulator. If we can't repolarize this flux in the central positrons of the computer then there's no way I can get that beta deflector array back online.

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Engineers do loads of useful things like build sewage systems and trains. If the engineers go away, there will be no more trains 😢

  • Whorish_Ooze [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    If Rick&Morty and/or its fans are any basis for forming an opinion about the population as a whole, what most people think that "Scientists" do is actually shit that Engineers do. Seriously, Rick's not a fucking scientist, how many times have you seen him testing a hypothesis or collecting data or proving/disproving a theory?! All he does is build shit. Engineer. Case closed.

    • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      He discovered all the principles necessary to turn a human into a pickle, most scientific shit I've ever seen

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I like to think of people who do research for speed runners are more like scientists. Also the people who make video essays for YouTube are a lot like scientists. Take this vid for example. We have the context, we have the background on why it's important. We have a method (talking to people and asking for connections) and we ultimately get a conclusion. The rest of science is just letters to the editor arguing about "well, what if he's wrong?" I've seen many figures in scientific articles that are just confirming that a hypothesis is sound in different cell lines.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inUkotGb-K4