unbelievable

what should you say when a team of under-accomplished engineers propose to undertake projects of heroic proportions?

here's my take on it -

"1. people with such abilities are usually comfortable with logic programming languages: prolog, lisp, etc. based on the reasoning abilities they've exhibited so far, i think that its safe to assuming that they can't do it.

2. people with such ingenuity (i.e. able to do projects of such level) are usually working for NASA, NSA or even google. since they are not there, unless their talents have been *really* sorely overlooked, its again safe to discount the possibilities of them succeeding.

3. people of this level usually emit vibes or have a white aura around them. It makes us normal computer scientists fall to our knees and worship, at the same time, muttering "get away from me, for I am sinful". That is not happening yet. (Besides, I've not been hit by lightning nor struck deaf, mute or blind)

4. perhaps divine intervention might be their help, as it was for the psalmist. but looking at the weather conditions, its raining water. not fish. nor frogs. nor pennies. rivers are not turning into blood. neither are three wise guys riding over the hill to worship the messiah. So i think we are not likely to get a divine visitation."


.. and if by some miracle they succeeded, i think they just wasted their one in a billion chance of achieving the impossible: they could have written a "lottery number generator" and shut down all gambling establishments.