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xrocketengineer

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This reminds me of the good old days in college during a summer session. A group of about six of us were working on mechanical design team project (of a beach sweeper) and being a summer course, the class met everyday and we had almost every day progress reports. Our team had to meet daily and work on the project way past midnight, after the library was closed. Having no other place where to work, I asked my uncle, whom I was staying with at his house while in college, if we could put a 4'X8' sheet of plywood on top of his pool table on the porch and work there. He agreed. After several days working there, a "disagreement" came up among the team members about some design details. It got so heated that it was about to come to blows.
One of the group members that only needed that class for graduation that summer and it was in his best interest that "we passed the class", interrupted the argument saying:
"That is like the case of the scientist running the experiment with a crab. " Everybody had a puzzled look on their faces. "Yes, the scientist took the crab and he pulled a leg off the crab and set the crab on a table and then the scientist told the crab to walk. The crab walked. Next, the scientist took the crab and he pulled another leg off the crab, set the crab on the table and told the crab to walk. The crab again did. This continued on until the crab had only one leg left. The scientist pulled the last leg of the crab and ordered the crab to walk. It did not. The scientist repeated himself several times but the crab would not move. The scientist then wrote on his lab notebook - Conclusion of the experiment: If you pull all the legs off of a crab, the crab will go deaf". There was no fight and we all passed the summer class.