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End of a Scientific Legend?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the past-its-prime dept.

pacopico writes to mention the sorry state of the well-known Los Alamos National Laboratory. Sixty years ago, it was at the forefront of the race for the Atomic bomb. Nowadays, "smugness can breed complacency, and complacency carelessness. In recent years the laboratory has been in the news not for its successes but its failures.The result is a change of management, which the story goes on to discuss in great detail. It begs the question - can Los Alamos hang on as a prestigious place or is it too late for the supercomputing powerhouse and weapons lab?"

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  1. and... by preppypoof · · Score: 5, Funny

    smugness can also breed the urge to smell your own farts!

  2. Yoda sez by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    smugness can breed complacency, complacency leads to carelessness. Carelessness leads to ... suffering

    --
    try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
  3. Re:Pet peeve: "Beg the question" by Lisandro · · Score: 4, Funny

    For example, you could say "Only idiots would go to Wal-Mart," and "prove" it by saying "Everyone in Wal-Mart is an idiot".

        Both statements are true. I don't know where you're going with this...