— R.V. Jones, “Impotence and Achievement in Physics and Technology,” Nature 207:4993 (1965), 120-125
(When the Royal Engineers tried to use this trick to demolish a tall chimney, filling its base with 6 feet of water and firing an explosive charge into the water, “it succeeded so well that it failed completely”: The incompressible water flung the surrounding ring of bricks outward, leaving a foreshortened chimney suspended above in midair. This dropped down neatly onto the old foundation, upright and intact, “presenting the Sappers with an exquisite problem.”)
Brilliant.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
Scientists got bored watching the earth turn, so after 24 hours…
They called it a day.
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
noddy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 3:33 am
I remember watching the cosmos documentary and the NASA scientist adamantly stressing it should be pronounced "urine us" not "your anus"
Neither of those sound like good options. it's a name that you can't enunciate verbally so 'Doug' is probably right.....'>......
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
noddy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 4:05 am
I just found out that Albert Einstein existed.
My whole life I thought he was a theoretical physicist.
+1
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
Colonel Sun wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 5:22 pm
204111670_4727913633891550_4619793780392098178_n.jpg
It seems either postal rates or Global warming cause aging. At least with me.
Age.png (508.66 KiB) Viewed 2332 times
"I fancied myself as some kind of god....It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” -- George Soros
Brilliant.
