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Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Sat Apr 01 2006, 07:42PM

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"Breathe...breathe in the air. Don't be afraid...to care" and so on.

".....you missed the sarting gun" that whole segment from Pink Floyd as well. I love their phrasing in their lyrics.

"And you call yourself an engineer?!?!"

"1.21 Jigawatts!!!"

"More power!"

"There's a good chance it will work fine, but there's also a good chance it will explode....and possibly maim you"...heheh...I love joking with my friends.

Dr. Drone

Sat Apr 01 2006, 07:59PM

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FastMHz

Sat Apr 01 2006, 11:38PM

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Nothing screams poor craftsmanship like wrinkles in your duct tape

There is a reason ingenious and engineer do not come from the same word

If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life...let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives!!!!!!

If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk!

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.

"" is like rubbing two ice cubes to start a fire. It ain't happening

I was madder than a three legged dog trying to burry a turd on a icy lake.

Hard work never killed anyone. But why take the chance?

If it stinks, it's chemistry, if it squirms, it's biology, if it doesn't work, it's physics.

(not mine, but I say them)

Self Defenestrate

Sat Apr 01 2006, 11:47PM

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"The tallest blade of grass is the first to get cut"
"I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent"

Omicron

Fri Apr 14 2006, 07:55PM

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I love all a-bomb sayings:

We had the means to end the war quickly, with a great savings of human life. I believed it was the sensible thing to do, and I still do.
Luis W. Alvarez

No one who saw it could forget it, a foul and awesome display.
Kenneth Bainbridge, describing the explosion
of the first atomic bomb (Trinity, July 16, 1945)

If I had known that the Germans would not succeed in constructing the atom bomb, I would have never lifted a finger.
Albert Einstein

The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. the lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted with the intensity many times that of the midday sun.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Farrell, describing the explosion
of the first atomic bomb (Trinity, July 16, 1945)

"Such a [atomic] war is not a possible policy for rational men," Truman added. Nonetheless, each of the next five presidents who succeeded him in office found it advisable to threaten the Soviets with the use of nuclear weapons. As the British physicist P. M. S. Blackett observed, "Once a nation pledges its safety to an absolute weapon, it becomes emotionally essential to believe in an absolute enemy."
Einstein, sad-eyed student of human tragedy, closed the circle of evolution, thermodynamics, and nuclear fusion in a single sentence. "Man," he said, "grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits."
Timothy Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988)

Without a sound, the sun was shining. Or so it looked. The sand hills at the edge of the desert were shimmering in a very bright light, almost colorless and shapeless ... after another ten seconds or so it had grown and dimmed into something more like a huge oil fire, with a structure that made it look a bit like a strawberry ... the bang came minutes later, quite loud though I had plugged my ears, and followed by a long rumble like heavy traffic very far away. I can still hear it.
Otto Frisch, describing the explosion of the
first atomic bomb (Trinity, July 16, 1945)

At Los Alamos during World War II there was no moral issue with respect to working on the atomic bomb. Everyone was agreed on the necessity of stopping Hitler and the Japanese from destroying the free world. It was not an academic question, our friends and relatives were being killed and we, ourselves, were desperately afraid.
Joseph O. Hirschfelder

At Los Alamos we had some conversations on the subject and I must admit that my own position was that the atom bomb is no worse than the fire raids which our B-29s were doing daily in Japan, and anything to end the war quickly was the thing to do.
George B. Kistiakowsky

My feeling was something like, "Well it worked!" There's no great emotion to that, except that it worked. I think it was later that I and many other began to think about the consequences, about what could be done with such a powerful device.
Edward McMillan, describing the explosion of
the first atomic bomb (Trinity, July 16, 1945)

There floated through my mind a line from the Bhagavad-Gita in which Krishna is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty: "I am become death, the shatterer of worlds." I think we all had this feeling more or less.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoted in N. P. Davis,
Lawrence and Oppenheimer (1969)

Suddenly there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen.
I. I. Rabi, describing the explosion of the
first atomic bomb (Trinity, July 16, 1945)

In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.
Emilio SegrÃ¨, quoted in Richard Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986)

During 1943 and part of 1944 our greatest worry was the possibility that Germany would perfect an atomic bomb before the invasion of Europe. â€¦ In 1945, when we ceased worrying about what the Germans might do to us, we began to worry about what the government of the United States might do to other countries.
Leo Szilard

We were afraid that Hitler had the bomb first, and we made this bomb, which shortened the war and saved a lot of American and Japanese lives in the Japanese war.
Victor Weisskopf

As for my participation in making the bomb, there was no choice. The original discovery that made it possible was made in Germany, and we had believed that the German scientists were ahead of us in the development of a nuclear weapon. I shudder to think what would have happened if Germany had been first to acquire the weapon.
Eugene Wigner

And then my all time favorate: If there ever is a WWIII then WWIIII will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

Nik

Sat Apr 15 2006, 02:27AM

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"Don't touch anythign grounded!" I use that one a little too often.

ragnar

Sat Apr 15 2006, 02:37AM

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I can't remember the name of the Japanese General who was heard to say "What the fuck was that?" shortly following the blast at Nagasaki.

Bjørn

Sat Apr 15 2006, 03:20AM

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"The important thing is not to win, but to participate."
Adolf Hitler - April 29, 1945

williamn

Sat Apr 15 2006, 04:38AM

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"MMMMMM doughnuts"

GimpyJoe

Sat Apr 15 2006, 05:55AM

Registered Member #316 Joined: Mon Mar 13 2006, 01:30PM
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"Cabin lines, boys! The Blue cow's here!" my friend swears his camp councilor said this in his sleep

"There are all kinds of little things you can do each day to leave your mark on the world, even if it's on a one to one basis. The other day I saw a little boy eating an ice-cream cone, so I ran up to him and smashed it in his face and said YOU REMEMBER ME FOREVER!!!" -Dane Cook

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