Seems like a simple lesson (the first few years of your career constitute an eight-hour-a-day test, FYI), but the hilariously haughty and utterly off-base email from a former lifeguard to his old boss published by Deadspin shows that not all young ladder climbers have grasped this logic.

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It replicates a smaller-scale test drop tried on Naval Base Guam in 2010, he said.

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The symbol of the test-pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert, where Mr Armstrong spent years testing military jets, flying the X-15 at 4, 000mph to the very edge of the atmosphere, is a slide rule over a stylised aircraft.

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Scientific glass--for beakers, test tubes and flasks--has led Corning into a small but important base in medical products.

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In this room, which is impervious to outside radio signals, our test engineers connected the phones to our base-station emulator, a device that simulates carrier cell towers (seevideo: IPhone 4 Design Defect Confirmed).

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The iPad is new, and will have a small initial user base, so it makes sense for developers to test the waters with higher-priced apps.

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After returning and graduating from Purdue, Neil applied to become a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base.

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Flash back five months: I'm at a test track at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, in a Lexus fitted with a pre-crash safety system.

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America's marines are creating a smaller model FOB at their base in Quantico, near Washington, DC, to test systems for deployment in Afghanistan by mid-2010.

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