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Re:A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 ... by rayiner on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @11:21PM (#11485466)
People were also skeptical of all the people before the Wright brothers who jumped off cliffs and killed themselves. Skepticism is the natural worldview of an engineer, because the universe is incredibly hostile to our ideas.
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Re:A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 ... by IndianAstronaut on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:14AM (#11486353)
>Skepticism is the natural worldview of an engineer

This is in a nutshell why me and my (MBA)boss get into arguments.

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Re:A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 ... by ScottBurson on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:31PM (#11491942)
If those people weren't optimists, they wouldn't have jumped off the cliffs.
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