Thanks for the pep talk Jay, unnecessary but I'll take whatever I can get. I'm the most intelligent person I know, which is not saying much at all really
You're not missing much. I was a member for a few years, but then realized they are largely the kind of people who can talk your ear off about hyperspatial manifolds, then go out to the car and pour the oil in their radiators instead of the crankcase. In the subsequent years I've learned that thinking critically is a more valuable skill than the kind of stuff Mensa tests you on. I worked as a contract engineer on the Boeing 777 and the Boeing 787 projects (oddly enough in very different roles), but I've probably learned more about jet engines from watching Agent JZ on YouTube than I ever did from my actual professional training.
I figured that was the case with the Mensa lot and I prefer to talk about engine manifolds.
I do love gas turbines, I've always thought there is something very graceful about them, noisy, but graceful. I still have my hand written notes on my shelf from when I was studying them and have a read occasionally. I think I should have done medicine with my handwriting the way it was though.
One of the guys I was studying with at the time found out something quite incredible. He was visiting his aged grandmother and she asked him how he was going at school and what he was studying.
He told her and mentioned that he was learning about jet engines.
Her initial comment was "Oh do they still make them?" to which he replied that of course most passenger planes use them.
She then went on to tell him that around the late 30s his great uncle was working with a man on jet engines. His name was Whittle!
He was getting into the family business without even knowing it.
Dwight, Sacrilege I know, but you don't publish an electronic copy do you?
That was my reason for asking. I know that I'd chuck his resume into the trash the instant I saw his online presence. He's not a kid anymore, I believe he's in his mid-30s. He ought to be out earning a living and building a career. As much as I dislike the guy for what he's doing and for his poor behaviour, it is a sad waste of a life if he has ruined his future with all this hoax nonsense.
He has made his bed he can sleep in it. He may be a qualified broom technician, or a vehicle performance enhancement officer specialising in the reduction of the CD who knows?
Although, not everyone does that thorough a background check, as long as they have the qualifications for the job it would come down to personality and communication skills. I have a feeling that if he came in to my office for a job, and I didn't check him out online, he would probably come across as articulate and capable. But that is why I have a six month probation period.
Now that you mention it, he was invited to present his "findings" on space radiation and Apollo to qualified university faculty in his city. All he had to do was show up. He refused even to acknowledge that the invitation had been tendered. That to me speaks volumes not only for his competence, but for his recognition of how badly his claims would fare outside his selected walled gardens. He went back and tried to delete the evidence of his public failures. This to me indicates a deliberate attempt to deceive.
I agree with you there. He
is deceptive, he uses the same tactics as many other conspiracy theorists by taking snap shots of video, comments, text etc. and, as far as I am concerned deliberately failing to show those pieces which would counter his arguments. His m.o. is typical. That is why I doubt he really believes in a hoax.
