Originally Posted by
TomCrump
Logic is a skill lost, to many. This is the reason for the variety of gadgets available in today's RC marketplace. Why learn how to do something in the proper manner, when you can purchase a "toy" that will do it for you ?
Geez. I've been agreeing with you lately, too ????
Actually, it's not "Why learn" but, more accurately, "Why
SHOULD I learn". People today are getting so dependent on tech and the internet that they can't think for themselves anymore. For example, I had a "kid", at work, ask what I was working on while drawing out frames for a personal project. When I told him that I was designing and building a gas scale hydroplane based on the 1978 Miss Madison, his comment was " Why don't you just order one off the internet?". When I told him that no one makes or sells the boat I'm working on, his comment was "If no one makes or sells it, then the boat never existed. If it had existed, someone would sell a model of it". I then "burst his bubble" when I showed him, online, pictures of the boat in both it's Pay'N Pak and Miss Madison paint schemes, followed by race footage from 1974 and pictures of the boat being restored. His response was "All of that is photo-shopped, none of it is real". He just couldn't believe that what he was seeing was, in truth, legit