Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jim Pennino Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,sci.math Subject: Re: "The Day The Earth Stood Still" Followup-To: sci.physics Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 06:56:30 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <101u0bn$23b6j$1@dont-email.me> <684C5C86.4950@ix.netcom.com> <684D319E.51BE@ix.netcom.com> <102n37m$12ivm$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:01:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c69700eedc241c221e68ef410c2c1af7"; logging-data="3332809"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/EgFen/0R6h3JS/f8miSRi" User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20220130 ("Convalmore") (Linux/5.15.0-141-lowlatency (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:K9e4gKlQa6M0j8WoVBMnsNlfcHM= In sci.physics Governor Swill wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:59:11 -0700, OrigInfoJunkie > wrote: > >>On 6/15/2025 11:25 AM, Siri Cruz wrote: >>> On 15/6/25 10:08, OrigInfoJunkie wrote: >>>>> Atomic bombs were actually invented in Germany. >>>> >>>> Germany never had an atom bomb. The program was scuttled in 1942. >>> >>> Nuclear fission was discoverred in Germany. >> >>That's nice. >> >>*discovered*, you fucking idiot ? only one fucking 'r' >> >> >>> >>> Once that was established the question shifted from science to technology. >> >>Germany never mastered it. > > Exactly - but they didn't stop trying until allied forces overran all > their research facilities and captured their scientists. Actually all his successes caused Hitler to believe circa 1940 that the war would be over by 1941 and ordered research projects that couldn't be fielded by 1941 to be abandonded. A couple of years later reality set in and projects were restarted. -- penninojim@yahoo.com