I wonder how many fewer engineers we have due to teenagers not being able to help fix up old cars anymore?
@St_Rev I don’t know… How many professional chemists got serious about doing it at home before university? Doubt that was common, but unsure
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@Meaningness Feynman got his start fooling around with tube radios and the like, IIRC. Now it's all solid-state black boxes. -
@St_Rev And most mechanical engineering is routine and done in China, so maybe kids fixing cars is a waste of time. I kinda miss it though. - 9 more replies
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@Meaningness@St_Rev Quite a few, considering chemist memoirs. In here, there's less at-home experimenting, but …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@Meaningness@St_Rev …but nobody bats an eye if a kid cooks up nitroglicerine at school as long as they dispose of it safely - 1 more reply
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