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Subject: Re: OT: CERN cuts ties with Russia , will expel hundreds of scientists by December
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:30:22 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

>On a sunny day (Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:03:02 +1000) it happened Bill Sloman
><bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vcmcm4$1j9bp$1@dont-email.me>:
>
>>On 21/09/2024 7:52 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>> On a sunny day (Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:51:34 +1000) it happened Bill Sloman
>>> <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vcltuj$1h8e9$1@dont-email.me>:
>>> 
>>>> On 21/09/2024 4:53 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>>> CERN cuts ties with Russia, will expel hundreds of scientists by December:
>>>>>    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/cern-will-expel-hundreds-of-russia-affiliated-scientists-by-december/
>>>>>     But Geneva-based organization will retain ties with Joint Institute for Nuclear Research.
>>>>>
>>>>> So maybe then Russia will get some more usable stuff than CERN ever did
>>>>> CERN will still work as bomb shelters though.
>>>>
>>>> CERN does fundamental rather than applied research - not a distinction
>>>> that Jan Panteltje has the wit to understand.
>>> 
>>> Dear slow-man script
>>> Please have you creat-tor remove the part that insults every-body
>>> doing so would improve your status as a humming bean clone.
>>
>>I don't insult everybody - I just insult ignorant clowns like you, and 
>>it's incidental to the business of pointing out that they have got stuff 
>>wrong. If you were a slightly less ignorant clown you'd be aware that 
>>copying John Larkin's insults isn't a winning strategy.
>>
>>>> Of course the research that lead to the atomic bomb was just as
>>>> fundamental, and few people expected that it would be of any practical use.
>>> 
>>> What did lead to the a-bomb was Curie and a room sized lab
>>> and some thinking by Enrico Fermi.
>>
>>That does miss out quite a lot. Lise Meitner was the first to recognise 
>>that fission was going on.
>>
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner
>
>Some read, lots of politics..
>The fishicks is interesting though.
>
>
>
>
>>>   The Italien Navigator Has Landed:
>>>    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fermi-produces-the-first-nuclear-chain-reaction
>>> All in small labs to start with
>>
>>Strictly speaking, Fermi didn't quite get to a self-sustaining chain 
>>reaction in the University of Chicago squash court - which wasn't a 
>>small room - though he did get pretty close, and quite close enough to 
>>justify the next steps.
>>
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
>>
>><snipped nonsense from Russia Today>
>
>He who does not want to see is effectively blind.
>That also goes for bots of course :-)

Bill prefers sources like Wikipedia, which any damn fool can edit -
and plenty have.