And so we find out how Roscoe ended up on Earth...
Nerd By Northwest #256 – “Ditched”
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The first panel references something most of us seldom think about.... the fact that in general we comprehend very little about the items and technology we use every day. Even we engineers and technical types can only fully understand and/or replicate select parts of the products and projects we work on. And it's not that we're stupid... it's just that beyond a certain point, items get too complex for any one person to fully understand how everything works. So why should it be any different for starfaring aliens from another planet?
Same goes for base motivations. No matter how advanced you are, if someone's messin' around with your spouse or getting moose poop on your favorite gloves, you're not gonna just let that slide... 😏
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This one was great. 😂 👏
Lots of truth to that first panel. I've been watching some of my favourite Star Trek episodes of late, and I'm constantly amazed at how everyone knows everything, and they know it all the time. Hell, I don't even remember how incandescent lights work.
But yeah... the bosses wife. Epic. 😃
And the complexity will only go up from here, whether it's science & technology, medicine, or economics. I predict we're gonna see a lot more people just 'shut down' from the intimidating scale of it all, and put all their faith in the "experts" for guidance (even more than they do now). Which is a shame.... it's almost always worth listening to experts, but seldom wise to follow them or their advice blindly.
But hey, it'll open up opportunities for those of us who can still think critically and be curious how things & systems work... 😃
I wish I could remember the details, but there was one specific individual who was reportedly the last man to know the sum of all human knowledge before it exploded into specialization and advanced beyond the capacity for any one individual to learn.
That sounds like a reference to Thomas Young.... there was a biography of him titled "The Last Man That Knew Everything". And while the title is a bit of an exaggeration, he was a polymath of such talent and impact on science that if anyone is deserving of the title, it would probably be him.
No, it wasn't him. Googling of course brought up that book, but he is at least a century too late to be who I was trying to remember, I think.