Reply With QuoteBring on the IQ test - Mensa says it's willing to host President Trump and secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a battle of the brains.
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mensa says they will host an IQ test
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Bring on the IQ test - Mensa says it's willing to host President Trump and secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a battle of the brains.
cancel2 2022 (10-11-2017)
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Great idea. The Mensa spokesman repeated the myth that Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer. He was not, in the sense it is understood today. He never obtained an engineering degree much less one majoring in nuclear engineering. He was granted a BS degree of type I can't track down and worked in the area of nuclear power including submarines.
It appears Carter does not do much to dissuade the myth.
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nuclear subs back then?
top secret dude
its not released Info yet
Canceled
Please let this happen.
They did a whole montage last night of all of the times Trump talked about how super-smart he is. It is really one of the saddest things.
blackascoal (10-11-2017)
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/0...ear/index.html
Kingston, Ontario, Canada (CNN) -- Though Georgia is a continent and an ocean away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, we can be confident that an 86-year-old man in that state knows full well the fears the Japanese cleanup crews are experiencing.
The Georgian's name? James Earl Carter, the 39th president of the United States. Almost 60 years ago, and then a young U.S. Naval officer working at the dawn of the nuclear age with the U.S. atomic submarine program, Carter was physically lowered into a damaged nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, and exposed to levels of radiation unthinkable today after an accident.
"We were fairly well instructed then on what nuclear power was, but for about six months after that I had radioactivity in my urine," President Carter, now 86, told me during an interview for my new book in Plains in 2008. "They let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would now. It was in the early stages and they didn't know."
Despite the fears he had to overcome, Carter admits he was animated at the opportunity to put his top-secret training to use in the cleanup of the reactor, located along the Ottawa River northwest of Ottawa.
"It was a very exciting time for me when the Chalk River plant melted down," he continued in the same interview. "I was one of the few people in the world who had clearance to go into a nuclear power plant," he said.
"There were 23 of us and I was in charge. I took my crew up there on the train."
On December 12, 1952, the NRX research reactor at Chalk River Laboratories suffered a partial meltdown. There was a power surge and as a result some fuel rods melted after rupturing. Millions of liters of radioactive water ended up in the reactor building's basement. The crucial reactor's core was left unusable. It was later rebuilt and worked for decades before its retirement in the early 1990s.
At the time, Carter was based in Schenectady, New York, and working closely with Adm. Hyman Rickover on the nuclear propulsion system for the Sea Wolf submarine. He was quickly ordered to Chalk River, joining other Canadian and American service personnel.
blackascoal (10-11-2017), christiefan915 (10-13-2017)
BIDEN WON.
Sounds like he was pretty close....Originally Posted by Micawber
The Carter CenterHe was educated in the public school of Plains, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, New York, where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine.
C'MON MAN!!!!
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He was not a nuclear engineer. He worked in nuclear power. My point stands. A nuclear engineer has a degree
In nuclear engineering. Unless you want to allow that a garbage man is a sanitation engineer. I am not saying Jimmy is not plenty smart. He graduated in the top 1:3 roughly of his college class.
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there are other ways to learn things
Like being trained by the military
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...-study/542544/
In 2004, a New York Times reporter asked Stephen Hawking what his IQ was. “I have no idea,” the theoretical physicist replied. “People who boast about their IQ are losers.”
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Sure. I've said all I'm gonna say about it.
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Thems fighting words. Trump is going to challenge hawking now to an iq test.
evince (10-11-2017)
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A good place to start would be learning how to pronounce "nuclear". J.C. always said nu-qu-lar, same as Bush II.
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just dont call him a liar for it
he was trained by the military
His aptitude was so high he became an expert
he did nit claim a degree
just the knowledge
people in MESA agree he desreves the recognition he has the knowledge.
I have known brillent knowledgeable people who were never given a degree in anything
its not the paper that matters
Its the knowledge that matters
even colleges now will allow you to present your work as a whole towards a degree
dont trash Carter on such flimsy work
Nomad (10-11-2017)
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The military trains those in technical positions to be just competent enough to stay in but plenty incompetent to ever be able to function in the real world. I call it 'managed incompetence'.
Micawber is right this time... comparing a navy nuqular engineer to a real nuclear engineer is similar to calling a garbage man an environmental engineer.
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