Anyone else up watching things unfold?

Don't bother. The tedium is beyond belief.

 

Just seeing half of the conversation is bad enough.

 

I think it's more amusing, although possibly a bit frightening, that when
they were working on a self-sustaining nuclear reaction they weren't
entirely sure just how self-sustaining it would be.

They theorised that there was a possibility that it would set fire to the
atmosphere and create a global firestorm.

Remember kids, do not try to bring about nuclear Armageddon in your own
home.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Bit of a waste innit? Why not something cheap and rough since any decent
curry should fry your tastebuds?
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The OG mutttered

About on the money. He seems to have gone quiet on it now, but
looking a few weeks into the future, Des will return to this, like a
dog picking its scabs, and make reference to it - and probably will
also have one of those conversations he quotes with the i-people who
agree with his delusions. Then he'll _Guffaw_ or somesuch...

Thinking on it, maybe he should go into Law. In the USA. If he was a
state prosecutor, no one accused of a capital crime would ever get
convicted, given his ability to deal with logic and sources. That
would get his death sentence issue solved in one....

 

So decided to set one off to find out.

Simians and semtex.

 

Why thank you Son.

 

Catman bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

Not in France, it won't.

 

We only had little ones, not these huge ones that make the windows
shake.

I have other targets in mind.

 

Waste of time then, innit?
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The idea that huge amounts of energy might be released from the atom had
been widely published in science fiction and other circles many years
before Alamogordo.

hth

 

Whereas some other posters in this newsgroup don't appear to need any
help in *that* department.

 

The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Well, *our* emperor obviously wanted some toys of his own, pronto. And
some colonies, don't forget the colonies...

Well, that's never stopped any of the inbreds...

 

Wanna bet? This is the creature who says I'm ignorant about history.....

 

A freebie? In which case, that's quite an intelligent choice on their part.

 

So nobody here has heard of Cleve Cartmill?

http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0310/ref.shtml

 

No, but in another posting in this thread I do mention the SF
predictions.

Strikes me that dear old Dessie has been hung out to dry *again*.

Considering at least one, and possibly two, posters were using k/files
and thus only seeing quoted text, it's a singular achievement that he
not only failed to argue his corner but also failed to acknowledge his
errors...

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

Dangerous stuff, science fiction. Actually, reading the account of the
Manhattan Project, it strikes me that given the obstacles that had to be
overcome and the stupendous cost I very much doubt that any country
would have developed an atomic weapon much before the 60s or 70s if it
hadn't been for WW2.

At several stages during the project it looked as if the whole thing was
a fizzle and wouldn't be ready on time, if at all.

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However, your equivalent of Kryptonite appears to be oxygen...

 

The Older Gentleman emerged from their own little world to say

I've not seen the rose over here. I bought some when in Macon. It was on
promo in Casino. 6 bottle case for 13.5 Euros. I wish I had bought more; as
you say, it was very pleasant.