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2010-01-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by ryuge 2010-01-15 10:46|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I must have forgotten the link. Sorry.
Here it is.

Posted by ryuge 2010-01-15 11:04|| 2010-01-15 11:04|| Front Page Top

#2 To summarize an important chapter in William Stevenson's A Man Called Intrepid:

Bohr was living in Copenhagen during the Nazi occupation. He was cheerfully discussing atomic fission with any scientist who came to visit him, mainly Hitler's rocket men at Peenemunde. Somehow (I forget the details) British Intelligence got through to him that he needed to get out of Denmark. He was smuggled out in a Moon Plane. Shortly afterward, he visited Princess Ingeborg, who told him what the Nazis were doing in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe, especially concerning the butchery of the Jews. Bohr was flabbergasted. "Surely an appeal to Hitler would stop these things!"

Princess Ingeborg replied, "An appeal to Hitler is an appeal to the devil! You lived in the Third Reich and you never understood it!"

Bohr never did get the point entirely. He made statements calling for peaceful use of Atomic Energy, which, of course, assorted bad guys like Stalin and Mao ignored.

The article indicates that Bohr isn't the only genius to be incredibly stupid. Intelligence and wisdom are two vastly different things.

Posted by mom 2010-01-15 12:50|| 2010-01-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Intelligence and wisdom are two vastly different things.

Indeed, mom. And common sense is not common.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-15 15:52|| 2010-01-15 15:52|| Front Page Top

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