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Robert Oppenheimer Vs Edward Teller is a good example of what happens when two brilliant characters don't agree. Everyone in between those two ends of the spect

by kodz4 8y ago

Robert Oppenheimer Vs Edward Teller is a good example of what happens when two brilliant characters don't agree. Everyone in between those two ends of the spectrum did not matter to final outcomes. When it comes down to which direction a gigagantic ship has to head One side has to win. So pick a side guys. Know which side you are on. Nothing is going to be smooth about what lies ahead.

jonathankoren 8y ago
> Robert Oppenheimer Vs Edward Teller is a good example of what happens when two brilliant characters don't agree. Teller publically accused Oppenheimer of being a traitor and had his security clearance pulled and then blacklisted as a communist because he didn’t see the point in building Teller’s Hydrogen bomb whose sole purpose is kill as many civilians as possible. In the end, the bomb was built, and Oppenheimer’s career was over. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#Oppenheimer_controversy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#Oppenheimer_co...
- paganel 8y ago
  Teller was a psychopath, pure and simple. He was also pretty smart which made him even more dangerous, I reguard him as one of the few humans whose decisions and actions could have wiped us all out as a species.
  - YeGoblynQueenne 8y ago
    Under what definition of smart a smart human works to create the means to end the species?
    - paganel 8y ago
      An interesting question which I find that would take me too long to answer, the shortest answer that I can come up is that I’m writing this comment from a device called a smart-phone whose battery is not replaceable, meaning that in maximum two years or so it will be in a dumpster together with other thousands, even hundreds of thousands of similar smart-phones, with all the nice rare and toxical metals of which they are composed slowly making their way into the ground and into our water-sources. What I mean to say is that we ourselves as a species can be seen as being pretty smart from a certain point of view (we went to the Moon, we designed and currently make electronic devices that can fit in our pockets and with each we can have conversations with total strangers from half a world away) but at the same time we do our best in order to destroy the livable habitat from the unique planet we’ve managed to populate so far. As such, people like Teller are the perfect representatives of this side of ours as a species: smart but self-destructive.

by kodz4 8y ago

jonathankoren 8y ago

> Robert Oppenheimer Vs Edward Teller is a good example of what happens when two brilliant characters don't agree. Teller publically accused Oppenheimer of being a traitor and had his security clearance pulled and then blacklisted as a communist because he didn’t see the point in building Teller’s Hydrogen bomb whose sole purpose is kill as many civilians as possible. In the end, the bomb was built, and Oppenheimer’s career was over. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#Oppenheimer_controversy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller#Oppenheimer_co...

paganel 8y ago
Teller was a psychopath, pure and simple. He was also pretty smart which made him even more dangerous, I reguard him as one of the few humans whose decisions and actions could have wiped us all out as a species.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y ago
  Under what definition of smart a smart human works to create the means to end the species?
  - paganel 8y ago
    An interesting question which I find that would take me too long to answer, the shortest answer that I can come up is that I’m writing this comment from a device called a smart-phone whose battery is not replaceable, meaning that in maximum two years or so it will be in a dumpster together with other thousands, even hundreds of thousands of similar smart-phones, with all the nice rare and toxical metals of which they are composed slowly making their way into the ground and into our water-sources. What I mean to say is that we ourselves as a species can be seen as being pretty smart from a certain point of view (we went to the Moon, we designed and currently make electronic devices that can fit in our pockets and with each we can have conversations with total strangers from half a world away) but at the same time we do our best in order to destroy the livable habitat from the unique planet we’ve managed to populate so far. As such, people like Teller are the perfect representatives of this side of ours as a species: smart but self-destructive.