Sure, fine whatever, but 3/4th of your article justifies why Japan should have been bombed and blasts democrats. Stay on topic for crissake!
Once you've said mega ton blast yield, I don't think it's necessary to go into the minutae of Dr. Teller's astounding achievements, especially with this audience. But they're shoved under a rock that only scientists and engineers crawl under, and that's the sad result of the wildly innacurate claims of my political party, and are entirely baseless. See all the posts titled 'burn in hell'. When was the last time you saw a post about Einstein with that kind of subject line?
This is my insignificant attempt to begin to rectify the man's deserved place in history. I'm sorry you find it inappropriate.
Apparently nobody studies history anymore, but Mr. Teller should be recognized as a national hero of science.
Oppenheimer had been closely associated with communists from his earliest relationships, had latter vigorously attempted to stop H bomb development, and the secrets of the atomic bomb were stolen from under his management. To fault Teller for bearing true witness is lunacy, nearly as crazy as it was to fault Robert for his friendships and point of view, (which he had forthrightly admitted prior to becoming admin of Los Alamos).
Moreover, Teller had a legitimate reason to fear and despise Stalin, along with any group to which he was associated, having witnessed the terror of the Red army spilling familial blood in the streets of Hungary. He had first hand knowledge of the depths of its depravity, and was prescient in his understanding that only inexplicable horror would sate the whims of communist dictators.
That he should love this country enough to devote the greater part of his life and mental energies to protecting US dominance and expanding our sphere of influence to cover the globe demonstrates an uncanny foresight coupled with what must have been a deeply held love for the whole of humanity. Admittedly he hid it well with gruff mannerisms, but any other conclusions are based on illogical, often hysterical premises.
Consider the historical context: Both the Germans AND Japanese were developing nuclear weapons. Stalin killed 25 million Russians, Poles, Jews, etc. Germans killed untold millions after working them to death, and experimented on living 'subjects'. The Japanese were guilty of the Bataan death march, and countless atrocities not limited even to hacking off prisoners penises and sewing them to their lips while still alive, and easily raping and killing millions of innocent civilians. You have to be strictly ignorant of the 20th century not to realize that our obtaining first mastery of atomic structure is the only thing that stopped terrorism on a continental scale. If any of these parties had gained an unanswerable first strike nuclear capability, the untold misery of billions would have hung in the balance.
Teller, Szilard, Oppenheimer, Rabi, Bohr, Rutherford, Einstein, and the other scientists involved in atom & H bomb development are owed a HUGE debt of gratitude by the world, by civilization itself.
The world is a shade darker with the loss of Edward's brilliance.
Kommando Chris
PS: It's sad to realize the unknowing sacrifice of.25 million Nipponese saved the lives of at least 15 million. If you can coherently argue otherwise, I agree to disagree, but would encourage an indepth study of Japan circa 1920-45 rather than trade meaningless barbs. The study of radiation effects is impossible to understand humanely, but asking a million Marines to kill millions is hardly an adequate answer. Hirohito was powerless and mute without the shock and terror delivered to the populous, and if the destruction of Tokyo by bombardment had not produced the desired surrender (civilians were ordered to stay in their homes and try to put out the fires until dead), how many more millions should we have blown up to bring the war to an end? Simply put, it was the most horrible and humane way to bring a merciful end to the insanity of that war. PSS: Pacifists (Einstein, Szilard & Fermi(?)) hatched the idea of atomic bombs, the liberal Democrats (FDR) in government secretly commited to and funded these 'horrible' and 'inhumane' weapons, a 'communist' (Oppie) developed them, and another Democrat (Truman) dropped them. Please explain to me why I'm more intelligent, compassionate and humane as a pacifist Democratic voter again? Oh yeah, our party blew up 250,000 innocent civilians. And we freed the slaves, er... wait a minute... and we directly increased taxes to consumers by increasing taxes on the evil corporations, who only add that cost directly to their goods and services...ummmm, shit. Harakiri anyone?
Thank god! Somebody else understands that putting loads into space without leveraging the atmosphere via flight dynamics is wasteful to the point of insanity.
The expressed 'space plane' idea is nearly identical in it's lack of ingenuity due to achieving lift with brute force rather than intelligently using a more graduated lifting sequence. Why is NASA super glued to this horribly dangerous and expensive mechanism? Is there something I don't understand about physics? Does the inverse sqaure drop off of gravitation not work at low enough altitude to allow a jet carrying exponentially smaller rockets to reach break away speed (17K mph)? If not, why was the X15 reaching beyond the atmosphere during apogee?
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Sure, fine whatever, but 3/4th of your article justifies why Japan should have been bombed and blasts democrats. Stay on topic for crissake!
Once you've said mega ton blast yield, I don't think it's necessary to go into the minutae of Dr. Teller's astounding achievements, especially with this audience. But they're shoved under a rock that only scientists and engineers crawl under, and that's the sad result of the wildly innacurate claims of my political party, and are entirely baseless. See all the posts titled 'burn in hell'. When was the last time you saw a post about Einstein with that kind of subject line?
This is my insignificant attempt to begin to rectify the man's deserved place in history. I'm sorry you find it inappropriate.
My sarcasm towards my political party was too subtle, my apologies.
Apparently nobody studies history anymore, but Mr. Teller should be recognized as a national hero of science.
.25 million Nipponese saved the lives of at least 15 million. If you can coherently argue otherwise, I agree to disagree, but would encourage an indepth study of Japan circa 1920-45 rather than trade meaningless barbs. The study of radiation effects is impossible to understand humanely, but asking a million Marines to kill millions is hardly an adequate answer.
Oppenheimer had been closely associated with communists from his earliest relationships, had latter vigorously attempted to stop H bomb development, and the secrets of the atomic bomb were stolen from under his management. To fault Teller for bearing true witness is lunacy, nearly as crazy as it was to fault Robert for his friendships and point of view, (which he had forthrightly admitted prior to becoming admin of Los Alamos).
Moreover, Teller had a legitimate reason to fear and despise Stalin, along with any group to which he was associated, having witnessed the terror of the Red army spilling familial blood in the streets of Hungary. He had first hand knowledge of the depths of its depravity, and was prescient in his understanding that only inexplicable horror would sate the whims of communist dictators.
That he should love this country enough to devote the greater part of his life and mental energies to protecting US dominance and expanding our sphere of influence to cover the globe demonstrates an uncanny foresight coupled with what must have been a deeply held love for the whole of humanity. Admittedly he hid it well with gruff mannerisms, but any other conclusions are based on illogical, often hysterical premises.
Consider the historical context: Both the Germans AND Japanese were developing nuclear weapons. Stalin killed 25 million Russians, Poles, Jews, etc. Germans killed untold millions after working them to death, and experimented on living 'subjects'. The Japanese were guilty of the Bataan death march, and countless atrocities not limited even to hacking off prisoners penises and sewing them to their lips while still alive, and easily raping and killing millions of innocent civilians. You have to be strictly ignorant of the 20th century not to realize that our obtaining first mastery of atomic structure is the only thing that stopped terrorism on a continental scale. If any of these parties had gained an unanswerable first strike nuclear capability, the untold misery of billions would have hung in the balance.
Teller, Szilard, Oppenheimer, Rabi, Bohr, Rutherford, Einstein, and the other scientists involved in atom & H bomb development are owed a HUGE debt of gratitude by the world, by civilization itself.
The world is a shade darker with the loss of Edward's brilliance.
Kommando Chris
PS: It's sad to realize the unknowing sacrifice of
Hirohito was powerless and mute without the shock and terror delivered to the populous, and if the destruction of Tokyo by bombardment had not produced the desired surrender (civilians were ordered to stay in their homes and try to put out the fires until dead), how many more millions should we have blown up to bring the war to an end?
Simply put, it was the most horrible and humane way to bring a merciful end to the insanity of that war.
PSS: Pacifists (Einstein, Szilard & Fermi(?)) hatched the idea of atomic bombs, the liberal Democrats (FDR) in government secretly commited to and funded these 'horrible' and 'inhumane' weapons, a 'communist' (Oppie) developed them, and another Democrat (Truman) dropped them. Please explain to me why I'm more intelligent, compassionate and humane as a pacifist Democratic voter again? Oh yeah, our party blew up 250,000 innocent civilians. And we freed the slaves, er... wait a minute... and we directly increased taxes to consumers by increasing taxes on the evil corporations, who only add that cost directly to their goods and services...ummmm, shit. Harakiri anyone?
Thank god! Somebody else understands that putting loads into space without leveraging the atmosphere via flight dynamics is wasteful to the point of insanity.
The expressed 'space plane' idea is nearly identical in it's lack of ingenuity due to achieving lift with brute force rather than intelligently using a more graduated lifting sequence. Why is NASA super glued to this horribly dangerous and expensive mechanism? Is there something I don't understand about physics? Does the inverse sqaure drop off of gravitation not work at low enough altitude to allow a jet carrying exponentially smaller rockets to reach break away speed (17K mph)? If not, why was the X15 reaching beyond the atmosphere during apogee?