[FRIAM] Teckies and the Pols!

[Douglas Roberts]

I thought it was the "Cosmological Constant" which Einstein considered his
biggest mistake.  Not so?

--Doug

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  I suppose Russ would say that when Einstein wrote to Roosevelt (1939)
> about the possible bomb he was a scientist working as a politician.
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> The letter was apparently composed by Szilard but Einstein signed it and
> took full responsibility for it.  He later called it the "greatest mistake"
> of his life.
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> Frank
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> *From:* friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Peter Lissaman
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 01, 2009 10:26 PM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Teckies and the Pols!
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> Discussions anent science, engineering and WMD are always interesting.
> There are a lotta folks educated at two great schools of *Technology*
> (one in CA, one in MA, as I was) who would not bother too much about the
> distinctions, which, I think, are made by non-professionals in the
> business.  I  do think it's worth noting that, for better or
> worse, decisions on using WMD in 1915 (gas), 1945 and today were made by *
> politicians*, most of whom, I assume,  were were neither scientists,
> engineers , technologists or soldiers.
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