31-May-2008, 04:26 PM
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Location: Bowie, MD
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mike alexander
More exactly, a Woodrow Wilson Smith Man. In Time Enough for Love, Smith offers a partial list of things a human bean should be able to do:
Including the last (I can think of no way to test this after the fact), I score 11/21 on the Heinleinometer. That's 52%, although I cheated today and used a calculator (Maybe "using a calculator" is another skill, though). And are there other essential skills that The Master of Science Fiction missed?
(To get in the mood, I suggest playing the theme from The Magnificent Seven in the background as you work)
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my score is 66.66666666% (got tired of typing so left some 6s off).
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