Pipe bugs... way cool.

[ALIHISGREAT]

D_Hall's job sounds like possibly the best job in the world (for the majority of spudders anyway)....

[Ragnarok]

What is the most powerfully destructive thing you've tested that works?

Might I hazard a guess at human ingenuity?

[Sticky_Tape]

I am surprised you didn't ask if he tested high efficiency air launchers.

[starman]

What is the most powerfully destructive thing you've tested that works?

Might I hazard a guess at human ingenuity?

I would bet the house that jrrdw meant the question literally and not philosophically...

[D_Hall]

Let's just say that I routinely test things that register as about a 3.5 on the richter scale. I know this because it's fun to check the USGS siesmograph webpages for SoCal. Bad news is that they tend to pull the "evidence" down pretty quickly when they realize it's not really an earthquake (not a security conspiracy, the USGS just doesn't want non-quake events on their page).

In other words: I don't test M-16 replacements.

[D_Hall]

What is the most powerfully destructive thing you've tested that works?

Might I hazard a guess at human stupidity?

Fixed your post.

[jrrdw]

What is the most powerfully destructive thing you've tested that works?

Might I hazard a guess at human stupidity?

Fixed your post.

Are you insinuating my question is the forrest gump of forum questions?

[D_Hall]

Are you insinuating my question is the forrest gump of forum questions?

I'm not even sure what that means.

I was just insinuating that stupid people seem to cause more damage than clever people.

[Ragnarok]

I was just insinuating that stupid people seem to cause more damage than clever people.

Overall, yes... as such people are more likely to do something that unintentionally causes damage.
However, if both wished to cause damage, I would wager the more intelligent person could make a more efficient job of it.

Stupidity is more damaging because it happens more often, but per individual (and deliberate) case, intelligent malice is more harmful than idiotic malice.

[Hotwired]

Stupid people are fairly limited in what they're going to destroy without the assistance of clever people to get them started.

Besides, there's just a short lapse of concentration separating an intelligent professional and a bumbling idiot.

[Mr.Sandman]

not to be a buzz kill but :Please keep posts on-topic. Some deviation is tolerable, but a thread may be locked if it gets too far off track.

[Sticky_Tape]

D_Hall is included in the hijack so I wouldn't see it personally as a problem+ there wasn't much of a topic to begin with considering the first post didn't have any question he was just showing the pipe cutter.
Stupid people and Smart people in a spudding match stupid people make straws with chewed paper smart people make pneumatic shotguns. who does more damage if you are a smart person you know.

[D_Hall]

not to be a buzz kill but

Too late.

No soup for you!

[Lentamentalisk]

Speaking of no soup, since this topic has already been hijacked at least as many times as the constitution has been ignored,
These anti-soup posters appeared all over my school one day... Some of them were rather high up the wall...

This poster was a good 5' out of reach. (hand written part reads "how did you get this up so high?", to which I though, 'wait, how did the person writing that get up so high?')
I took photos off all that I could find here
The posters kept on appearing for 3 days straight.


Anyways, pipe bugs, Forking Awesome.

[starman]

The posters kept on appearing for 3 days straight.

Let's see...you're at Berkeley, right? (sorry couldn't resist... )