Re: Time Variance Regarding Helicopter

On May 15, 12:34=A0pm, Hunter <buffhun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Frank did say "...Hey, Faraday told me as long as I stayed on the
vector..=
.." but he
> is mistaken, he didn't. He believes so because he probably thinks he
went =
off course
> by only 5 degrees and only a few seconds but it was enough to scramble
Des=
mond's
> brain. He didn't think it was *THAT* im****tant but it was. Faraday as a
sc=
ientist is
> just more percise than Frank the Airline/chopper pilot. Sure pilots are
pe=
rcise too,
> but to them a five degree variation in course for only a few seconds
isn't=
 that big a
> deal. To faraday it was. It was a misunderstanding between "cultures"
"Sci=
ence geek"
> and "pilot jock". To a science geek if you are off by an inch you got to
d=
o the
> experiment over again. That is what Frank didn't get.

A student of mine had the same misconception.  Scientists, geek or
otherwise, are as precise as they need to be for the practical purpose
at hand.  What you're really going into is a matter of different
knowledge between the pilot and the scientist as to how much precision
was needed, rather than a gen'l distinction between scientists &
everybody else.

Robert