{"id":16533,"date":"2010-01-07T07:46:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16533"},"modified":"2010-01-07T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T12:46:40","slug":"can-someone-explain-to-me-why-this-dude-isnt-in-charge-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16533","title":{"rendered":"Can someone explain to me why this dude isn’t in charge of everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLook, I’m a reasonably sharp guy. I have a doctorate, am qualified for admission MENSA <\/a>(actually 3 times, by virtue of IQ test, GRE and LSAT), and I don’t sniff glue. Just yesterday I had a nice converstion with Blue Cyclone about the Mohorovi?i? discontinuity<\/a>, which is a kinda intellectual topic. I do logic games books to relax, and love taking practice GRE tests. Sure, I can be a bit retarded on certain things. I think all kinds of wacky shit, like why do they sell soft and super soft toilet paper, but no hard toilet paper. Not like I want to wipe my ass with sand paper, but every now and again a man wants to be able to dig, you know? Anyway, much like Socrates and Plato to Vizzini, this man makes me a moron.<\/p>\n

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According to his wiki page, Dr. Michio Kaku<\/p>\n

was born in San Jose, California to Japanese immigrant parents, and attended and played first board on the chess team of Cubberly High School in Palo Alto in the early 1960s. At the National Science Fair in Albuquerque, N.M., he attracted the attention of physicist Edward Teller, who took Kaku as a prot\u00e9g\u00e9, awarding him the Hertz Engineering Scholarship. Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a B.S. degree in 1968 and was first in his physics class. He attended the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972, and held a lectureship at Princeton University in 1973.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So yesterday I was sitting at home after work, watching a little TV. Actually, I was playing WoW and listening to the TV. As usual, I had the TV on something Geek, I think it was the Science Channel. Anyway, this cat comes on and does a special on how he would make a spaceship to transport him to Alpha Centari. I didn’t really understand some of it, but damn man, who doesn’t want to go off and make it with some blue alien chick, a la CPT Kirk? (You can watch part of that segment here<\/a>. Exit Question: Just me or does he sound like an Asian Jon Lovitz?)<\/p>\n

So after he solved that little problem, he spent another 1\/2 hour telling us all to make invisibility suits. Just imagine how this would revolutionize college locker room shower scenes in movies. He even dropped a few Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter references.<\/p>\n

Here he is talking about light sabers. You show me a kid who didn’t want a light saber, and I will show you a guy who grew up to enjoy musicals.
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But (and here is the point of this asinine post)….guess what his first job was? I mean, what would the smartest dude on the planet do for a first job? Simple my dear Watson, he was an INFANTRYMAN.<\/strong> Yup, this cat was a grunt before he was a theoretical physicist and futurist.<\/p>\n

The Infantry, is there anything we can’t do?<\/p>\n

[As an aside, I was talking to Caro last night about how I have a Tom Brady-level mancrush on this dude. I’m explaining the spaceship to her and she asks if it has left yet. I’m like no, he only plans the shit out he doesn’t build it. Then this happens:
\nMe: Dude also explained how to make an invisibility suit.
\nHer: Was he wearing it?
\nMe: No, he was just talking about it.
\nHer: Is anyone using it?
\nMe: No hon, it’s theoretical, they have made things disappear, but only for mili-seconds at a time.
\nHer: What things?
\nMe: Well, just atoms, something about stopping the electrons or something. Not sure, got attacked by a Jormunger<\/a> while I was watching that part.
\nHer: So no suit?
\nMe: Not yet.
\nHer: How about a glove?
\nMe: No, nothing yet.
\nHer: That’s dumb. Call me when he at least makes a finger sock disappear.]<\/p>\n

I literally have $5 through next Tuesday, so if anyone has any of this guys books that they could part with, would love to borrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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