Science project sparks subway scare
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Has it really come to this?
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Scrambling for the exits of a train when you see smoke coming out of a backpack is a good idea regardless of whether you think it's a bomb or not...
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I agree with you there... he could have had a lithium polymer battery...
I'm amazed no one tackled him or beat him up.
MD
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From the article:
" Kats said he tried to reassure his fellow passengers that it=20 was a school project -- not a bomb -- but people scrambled for=20 the exits nonetheless. The box he was holding had a small=20 battery, wires and a motor." ...
[snip]..."Kats is a computer engineering student at the New York City=20 College of Technology."
Amazing. Doesn't the New York City College of Technology teach anything about putting fuses and switches into circuits?
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What sort of grade did he get for that project?
-- Paul Hovnanian paul@hovnanian.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Procrastinators: The leaders for tomorrow.
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I agree, Computer engineers make lousy Electrical engineers.
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How about the converse? Do EEs make great Comp Es?
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What's the difference? I could have had a CompE degree if I'd wanted it. I took all the same classes, but thought an EE degree gave me more options. As it turned out it didn't matter.
-- Keith