Re: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"

William Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:

> J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > Wolf K <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2025-06-16 05:57, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>> Jan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Bye bye
> > 
> > Good to see another fan of Rush Limbaugh.
> > Have Canadians gone crazy too?
> 
> If I haven't yet, this group will do the job.
> 
> I've been trying to kill afrb from this thread for a while.  Maybe I 
> will succeed this time.

Succeeded. Allowing crossposts in the standard American nutter groups
(RL, gun control, etc.) is a crime against usenet.
Those people are trying to sabotage the few still functioning groups
by dumping junk into them, and keeping the threads up.

> It's true that there were some very smart people working on the nazi 
> atomic bomb program.

Ten of them, arrested in 1945 and taken to Farm Hall:

        •       Erich Bagge
        •       Kurt Diebner
        •       Walther Gerlach
        •       Otto Hahn
        •       Paul Harteck
        •       Werner Heisenberg
        •       Horst Korsching
        •       Max von Laue
        •       Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
        •       Karl Wirtz

Several Nobel prize winners among them.
Heisenberg pretended after the war that he hadn't failed,
and that he had actively resisted the Nazi regime
by deliberately not building the bomb.

> But reading Wheeler on the allied project, I get the impression that 
> there were hundreds of such working there - many refugees from Europe.

Certainly, and much of the scientific leadership.
Oppenheimer, while American, had studied physics in Europe.
The first 'all American' leading scientist was Richard Feynman,
a youngster at the time.

There is also much to be found in 
Richard Rhodes, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb'
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb>

Jan