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In the early 1990s, a Navy officer went through our graduate program in civil engineering.
One day, I met him outside of the Engineering Building, and he greeted me warmly and asked:
"Prof. Ponce, good to see you. What are you doing these days?"
I mentioned to him that I had recently published a paper on the subject of free-surface instability.1
Being a practical man, he said: "That's new stuff, isn't it?"
I said, proudly: "Sure, otherwise it would not have been published."
Then he said: "Well, if it is new, it has not been tested; and if it has not been tested, it cannot be used."
I sensed he had a point, but I had no ready answer for him.
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