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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In addition to a civil lawsuit, criminal actions should be explored.  How this horrific looking contraption could have been open for public use is beyond me.  [/quote]

[b]The guy who designed it is a high school dropout[/b]. He dropped out of school at age 24 and he's the 'inventor', the 'creative mind'.
Great idea.
http://grantland.com/features/the-wet-stuff-verruckt-waterslide-schlitterbahn/[/quote]

So what. He is an engineer.[b] Other pretty impressive people never finished high school[/b] or college. What a dumb thing to point out. [/quote]

who?[/quote]

For starters....

Richard Branson

Louis Armstrong

Tom Anderson - myspace co founder

Mario Andretti

Julie Andrews

Irving Berlin

John D. Rockefeller

Henry Ford

Francois Pinault

Roseanne Barr

Drew Barrymore

There are thousands - want me to keep going?

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None of them are engineers.[/quote]

Yeah. I mean, I love Julie Andrews as much as anyone, but I wouldn't ride a water slide she designed either. [/quote]

Where did you say to specify "engineers" - and there are PLENTY who did not finish college. You can be an engineer without being a PE and having a license - someone else signs off on your work.

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You can't be an engineer without a college degree though.[/quote]

What would you call Steve Jobs? Was he a computer engineer? He had no college degree....

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I would call him someone who is not responsible for someone else's safety.

I would call him having a job that doesn't require making specific calculations using many equations with experience using approximations and coefficients and factors of safety.
I would call him someone who isn't thinking that netting with structural supports is a good thing for a humans head (versus, say, a sandbag) to be hitting.
I would call him someone who isn't thinking that Velcro straps on a ride with high g forces is a good idea (what do you have in your car? Is it Velcro?).

Visionary and creator of handheld devices is different than safety engineer.[/quote]

He had Wozniak doing the engineering work!![/quote]

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