Less tedious: if you want to read the Gita translation written by the professor who taught Oppenheimer Sanskrit at Berkeley, it's online:https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106016334002 …
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This is funny BUT in the interests of being a tedious academic pedant who misses the joke, I need to point out that Vannevar Bush never calculated anything relating to Trinity because he was an administrator of the bomb project, not a researcher.https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1032720150292832263 …
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Also, he was an electrical engineer who knew absolutely zip about nuclear physics, as he himself pointed out MANY times.
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tedius academic pedant is my dream!
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I am not kidding. Can one guest post for
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I have a new item on the bucket list...
@TheOnionpic.twitter.com/ThIft3X7rD
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Yeah, the Bush reference got to me too.
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Thank you for this public service. (Not even kidding, you've been a great resource for literally years since I saw a post of yours on AskHistorians)
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He was a secret researcher. Tippy top secret. The Onion knows things...
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What scares me is that all the weapons of mass destruction or high technology weapons that can wipe cities are developed by people that should have the intelligence to know that what they are doing is wrong. The savants, engineers, researches, and people of high intelligence...
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They believed it was the patriotic thing to do. And it really was the right thing to do! It was a race to the finish before Hitler and the Nazis built a nuke ahead of us! In which case, we'd all be speaking German right now. We now know just how close they were, too! VERY!!!!
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