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On 3/29/2025 7:50 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On 13 Feb 2025 00:25:58 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> 
>> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:38:13 +0100, "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You forgot about the American AI.
>>>
>>> That's old hat. Chinese AI has rendered it ... superfluous.
>>
>> Hitler destroyed his nuclear bomb program because he didn't believe in
>> "Jewish Science."  The thing is, science isn't Jewish or Aryan, it is
>> just science.
>>
>> Likewise, AI isn't American or Chinese, it's just math.  And when it is
>> open-sourced it becomes math for everyone, too.
>> --scott
> 
> The main thing that derailed the German atomic bomb project was their
> 20-fold overestimate of the amount of uranium required to achieve
> critical mass.
> 
> They had discovered that plutonium could be manufactured that would
> reduce the critical mass but it was late 1943 by then and
> Anglo-American bombing was starting to "bite". They never attempted
> U-235 / U-238 separation (which is what the Hiroshima bomb was based
> on, the Trinity test and Nagasaki bombs were both done with Plutonium)
> 
> I'm not aware that any German physicist either during or after the war
> cited lack of Jewish physicists as having had a material impact on
> their project. Nor do I know of any German physicists that joined the
> AEC (in a similar way to the way von Braun and others joined NASA)
> after the war.

Fermi came to the US because new Italian racial laws would have affected 
his wife. Not German, but the Axis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi

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Kevin R



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