<VV> Rocket Scientists - acronyms

[John Kepler]

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> BTW iff'n you want acronyms, no-one does it better than the Fed, know five
> different meanings for MAC and even the context may not determine which.

Ah yes......the "Nomenclature Nazi's" strike again!  Those that pedantically
get their shorts in a bunch over acronymes that they make NO attempt to
understand, are welcome to write "atomic-absorbtion spectrophotometer" four
times in a sentence instead of using the industry-standard acronym, "AA"!
I'll bet the poster you're responding to gets confused by contractions too!
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> OTOH I would expect at least some to know what a THM-400 was

So would I!  BTW (do "net-isms" trip your "indecipherable acronym...warning
bells" as well?)   , got one sitting out in the 1966 Buick Wildcat, attached
to the 425 Nailhead!  Most folks don't know that Buick made a
"pavement-ripper" in the 60's!  Oh, to avoid getting ripped
myself....."THM"="Turbo Hydra-Matic", a registered trademark of General
Motors (I wouldn't THINK of using an acronym like GM!).

hand am not a scientist anyway, am an engineer. Get
> some of my best ideas wandering in a junk yard or listening to people who
> really know. What was that about standing on the shoulders of giants ?

I'm both.....about 5 years worth of it in R&D.....ooooops, that's "Research
and Development" for the "Nomenclature Nazi's"!  Every research project
starts in a library.....a junkyard qualifies.....so does getting "down and
dirty" with any mechanism.  The primary difference between an engineer and
everyone else was adequately summed up by Arthur Conan-Doyle's Sherlock
Holmes, "You see but you do not observe!".  Understanding that you "Insert
Tab A into Slot B" makes you a mechanic......needing to understand why you
do it makes you an engineer.

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> One thing I have learned about the Internet - ask a question and the
> silence will be deafening. Propose an answer and people will come out of
> the woodwork to correct you.

Ain't that the truth!  Usually by focussing on one tiny peripheral detail
that MIGHT, be in error (or bitching about acronyms).  It's simply a way to
stifle a discussion when you don't know enough to add to it.....including a
touch of "ad hominum" for enphasis ....vandals come in a lot of different
forms.

Rant mode off!  Back to valve-cover racing!

John
'65 Corsa 140 Coupe
'67 Monza 110 Convertible
'69 Monza 110 Coupe
'66 Buick Wildcat 425 Sedan