You are correct about that thread being locked - it didn’t give you much time to get back to it, I can see by the times, but I thought we were going to continue it in GD or somewhere…it’s a moot point now I guess.
I had a major in Medieval history, but have forgotten everything about it, including how to spell it, most days. You obviously must have retained much more of your major concentration knowledge than I did.
I think it would be in the interest of future students that you tell your alma mater that the shielding around their particle accelerator is not adequate.
Cause, you know, radiation doesn’t linger or anything.
More then meets the eye?
Marc
I would imagine it somewhat differently:
‘Duuuuuuude…we were putting you on, man! You believed that shit for 20 years? Maaaaaaaaan…no more of this stuff for you…’
But, in the threads I cited, you said you studied computer science in the seventies and worked in the industry before switching to art. Also, you claimed that you had “two advanced degrees”, which would, to me, indicate a masters or higher, not a bachelors.
Dear God, some of the replies (especially Czarcasm’s) here have had me laughing out loud, btw.
In this thread, Chas.E said
However, in this thread, Chas.E said
So which is it, Chas.E? The 70s or the 90s? If it took you the best part of three decades to complete even two Bachelors degrees, that leads me to question if you’re the intellectual Atlas you claim to be.
What’s the lesson we can all learn from this thread? Posters here have long memories.
BTW, this is the funniest Pit thread I have ever seen.
Well, maybe the Gamma Rays made him have super-intelligence, like the did the Leader from the Hulk comics. That easily explains all his advanced degrees and mumbo-jumbo. Plus, all Gamma Ray induced citizens are taken in by a pair of aged hippie/comic book artists in the California area. Since i was also taken in by these artists, i am in full knowledge of their names, but i refuse to share them with you at this time, so i can say nyeh nyeh nyeh! (i like to say nyeh nyeh nyeh!)
I have a degree in Celsius.
But then, I’m Canadian.
I SORELY needed a good belly laugh today and this thread was just the ticket.
Chas, if you were hanged for being a rational human being, you’d die innocent.
I didn’t know that. They sure don’t at Fermi, but then Fermi isn’t a university. Which accelerator was that, Chas? How often did they have to move everyone out to actually use the thing?
Andros, it’s a very important, but secret accelerator, so he won’t tell you. He studied there with his wife, Morgan Fairchild, who he’s married to. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Morgan Fairchild? That fish? Ewwwwww . . .
Oh, man, do NOT go bustin’ on my girl Morgan Fairchild. Otaku. 
For you inveterate skeptics, I attempted to find a photo of the old accelerator, but they tore it down a couple of years ago and built a whole complex of buildings on the site. It was smack dab in the middle of downtown. No, it wasn’t a huge accelerator in terms of power (although it was 5 stories tall), it only generated about 2MeV, but in 1963 when they built it, that was awesome power, and the university kept it in operation for about 35 years because it was very useful, yet not dangerous enough to be a public health risk when operated by mere grad students.
And if you still doubt its existence, I can at least document its demolition:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~hpo/nl/nl972c.html
Read the lower right corner.
Ah, this brings back many happy memories of hanging out in the middle of a huge physics apparatus. Memories like having to leave my watch at home because it would lock up in the heavy magnetic fields, and the metal desks with drawers that always stuck because they were all glued together magnetically.
All this article demonstrates is that a Van de Graaff generator at the University of Iowa was dismantled in 1997. It does not support your claims of multiple degrees, nor does it settle the discrepancy in your posts that I already c&p’ed. You have done nothing to disprove the general notion that you have invented, or at least embellished, your work experience and education.
gobear, if you want to hire me for big bucks, I’ll show you my resume. But you aren’t, so I won’t.
If there is any confusion over my statements about my educational credentials, it is most likely because I dropped out in 1977 and only returned to finish in 1992.
So basically, after a fifteen year year hiatus, you went back to school and got a couple of bachelors degrees. I say this sincerely – good for you. A lot of people don’t have the motivation or the scratch to make it back and get that degree or degrees.
But you must realize that bachelors degrees, not to mention higher degrees, are pretty thick on the ground around here. The problem is not that your education is deficient, which clearly it is not, but that while it ends up you have degrees in art and Japanese, you post as if you wrote the Annotated Bible on West Etruscan Marrows and invented the bathysphere. No subject too obscure for CHAS not to post as an expert!
We all have our areas of expertise. But yours frankly do not appear to be as extensive as you represent. When someone points this out, you say: well, I could prove it, but I can’t be bothered, or, I could prove it but it’s a Big Secret. It should be obvious when people just don’t buy it.