SultanOfSwing

Ah, but since scence is the study of and engineering is the application of the study of, the laws, processes and mechanisms that have been keeping the Universe in check since the Big Bang (13.8 billion years ago - kind of predates whatever the Greeks and Romans were inventing in order to **** each other over ...) you might save yourself some time by just saying "Yes, mate, how silly of me"

Quod erat demonstrandum ...

gradboy

What -- just because the sciences study old processes, the sciences themselves are older?

And I would never say 'mate', since I'm not English.

SultanOfSwing

Not older - better

gradboy

They might be better than politics (though I have my doubts -- look at all the technological stagnation these days).

If you like the higher humanities, you should read some Aristotle-- he ranks politics as the highest human activity I do believe.

Nutek

Pity they are all a bunch of self-serving scumbags.

SultanOfSwing

I'm not exactly coming from an objective angle, you understand.

I think back in his day, it was more philosophy than what it is now, though. It's all about self-interest and sucking corporate cock these days. Hardly what he had envisioned, I would imagine.

Sally Redux

They made Socrates drink hemlock.

Nutek

Was it ice cold with lemon?

sanfranjones

I'd trust a scientist, but a politician....mmmm

SultanOfSwing

Still didn't stop him playing in two World Cups though. What a trooper ...

Sally Redux

You nutters

zargof

No-one's perfect.

SultanOfSwing

This is what happens to my brain after a previously well-crammed-with-work busy day suddenly becomes one where I got rather quickly caught up.

It's rather like changing from 4th gear to 3rd instead of 5th, at 60mph

Nutek

Remember when 4th gear and 60mph were all we had.

sir_eccles

Gears? Hmm, I remember them.