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I consider it a glitch in the simulation that the guy who may have saved us from self-immolating on carbon with an alternative that may prove out to be just bar
by cagenut 7y ago
I consider it a glitch in the simulation that the guy who may have saved us from self-immolating on carbon with an alternative that may prove out to be just barely good enough... is named Goodenough.
- vharuck 7y agoSituations like convince me the universe is a lazy writer.
- ASTP001 7y agoLast Name: "Lazywriter"
- MS90 7y agoHis middle initial is B as well. Johnny B. Goodenough
- BurningFrog 7y agoBorn in 1922, so the "parents were Chuck Berry fans" theory is out.
- imgabe 7y agoMaybe Chuck Berry wrote the song about him
- GCA10 7y ago"He never ever learned to read and write so well, but he could drive enough current to win a Nobel."
- jjtheblunt 7y agothat's got to be one of the funniest things i've read in a long time.
- pnako 7y agoMaybe his parents are both Chuck Berry fans and time travelers.
- tunnuz 7y agoThis is the post that keeps on giving.
- rgoulter 7y agoExplained that way, it's a good aptronym. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
- wackro 7y agoIt could be a case of nominative determinism. Driven by fate to create good-enough solutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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- mrec 7y agoUnlike some people I could mention... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer
- bredren 7y agoNot to rain on the parade but wasn’t it Yoshino’s anode work that reduced the liklihood of immolation?
- zitterbewegung 7y agoHe also helped make RAM at MIT Lincoln labs .
- captainbland 7y agoFrom now on I'm going to have to call them Goodenough batteries.