Regarding the WWII Meeting of Bohr & Heisenberg

HarlanC writes: "The NY Times has an article (registration required) discussing the famous meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen in 1941. The conclusion is that Heisenberg revealed to Bohr the existance of a Nazi atomic program in an attempt to obtain assistance from Bohr. The Times of London article is here (long registration process required)" The play "Copenhagen" was based on a fictionalization of this meeting, it was much better than "Proof", I assure you.

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The What-IF's.

[Suppafly]

I love the fact that we're always talking about the what if's. What if the Nazis would have become nuclear before america. What if the axis powers would have won WWII. What if America hadn't gone to Vietnam.

After a war there will always be mistakes that happen or things that almost happened that could have changed events forever, but they didn't. It's interesting to note, but it's all history. Though an important part of history we all know what happened after WWII (Allied Powers Won).

Leave it at that.

It /is/ informative!

[Shade, The]

Karma points aside, the moderation system is meant to give posts that are useful to others a higher rating. This has been a very imformative article to me as I can be bothered with the registration. Just because it's cut and past doesn't mean it's not of value. Can we forget about Karma for one minute and instead try and moderate posts based on how useful they are?

The secret contents of the letter

[The Wookie]

I managed to get a transcript of the letter from Bohr to Heisenberg, here it is:

Dear Werner,
Ever since your last visit, I haven't seen my cat, Fluffy. You haven't seen her, have you?
Sincerely,
Neils

Slashdot policies on copyright violations

[JoeBuck]

Slashdot seems to tolerate the posting in full of articles from other sites, even though doing so denies the original site the ad revenue from the page views that would otherwise go to it. So it's not only copyright violation, it's likely to really piss people off. I'd hate to lose Slashdot as a resource, which could happen when some hostile party demonstrates that this is a repeated pattern.

But some people may not be registered, you say. Yes, and Salon charges $30/year for their premium service. I know, let's cut and paste all their good articles so that people don't have to pay ... and so the site goes broke.

The worst part is that copyright violators get rewarded with good karma. This is backwards, these people are endangering Slashdot itself.

Re:Slashdot policies on copyright violations

[Fishstick]

>The worst part is that copyright violators get rewarded with good karma

At this point, 12 moderation points have been used on this post:

Moderation Totals: Troll=2, Redundant=3, Informative=6, Overrated=1, Total=12.

six up, six down; the likely effect of this is that he has lost 3 points (assuming he is at the cap)

"PS: All your Bohrs are belong to us"

[ciaohound]

Someone had to say it, why not me?