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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
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Engineers of earlier generations can be incredibly inspiring. I'm not sure which of these is more impressive:
1) The methods described in the video linked above were used to sink the Bismarck and destroy the Japanese carrier fleet at Midway,
2) The SR71 was developed by guys in crewcuts wielding slide rules and French curves, or
3) NASA got astronauts to and from the Moon using less computing power than today's toddler has in a LeapFrog.
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Oh, yeah, electrical totally trumps mechanical. But it was not always that way.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)