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A Physicist with the Air Force

Posted by michael on from the meet-new-and-interesting-people,-and-kill-them dept.

An anonymous submitter - anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today, sigh - sent in this tale about the duties of a physicist during World War II.

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  1. Re:Don't ride the bomb... by mmol_6453 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Interesting relationship:

    In the movie, Slim Pickens (here for reference) is the guy who causes the atomic bomb to drop from the plane. (Jumping up and down on the bomb was one of his attempts.)

    In reality, Alex Green(writer of the article), jumped up and down on a plane trailer to get it out of the towing plane. Of course, the more interesting part is the fact that Alex also helped make the equipment that would cause the real atomic bombs to be dropped properly.

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  2. The efficiency of a dictatorship by Bob_Robertson · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How very true, it is *much* easier to get things done in a dictatorship, if you're on the dictators good side.

    There's no question that the most effective and efficient form of "governance" is a benevolent dictatorship.

    Two problems: It's never benevolent for long, and it's never benevolent to dissent.

    It's also illustrative to consider the concept of "governance", and why efficient "governance" is a really lousy thing anyway.

    That's why the U.S. "government" is designed at its inception to be as inefficient as possible, and why it took four-score and seven years before someone was able to install an efficient "governance" under it. And that brought war.

    Bob-

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