tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post5718291150232604954..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: At last, it's the savvy Savva and bromancer show, coming to you from beautiful downtown Surry Hills …(or Burbank if you will) ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-130024116560172552020-02-06T19:36:37.320+11:002020-02-06T19:36:37.320+11:00Very ambivalent about Pauling, DW; his obsession a...Very ambivalent about Pauling, DW; his obsession about Vitamin C was disgraceful.<br /><br />Indeed, there have been some very accomplished individual American scientists, but that is not the key issue which is how 'America' responds to genuine science. My take is that the response is largely one of ignorance with a few cases of acceptance.<br /><br />I do not recall the Americans ever having an organisation even remotely like the Royal Society, and it's no surprise that the Nobel Prize is Scandinavian.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-49287911925248866102020-02-06T19:06:38.081+11:002020-02-06T19:06:38.081+11:00Hi GB & DP,
If you haven’t already come acros...Hi GB & DP,<br /><br />If you haven’t already come across this, I would heartily recommend this podcast from the BBC to celebrate the Moon Landing;<br /><br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads<br /><br />There was a fair bit of US innovation involved but maybe not a great deal of pure science. <br /><br />The US did however give us Linus Pauling and I would consider two Nobels as pretty good going (although one was just for Peace and who gives a damn about that).<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling<br /><br />DiddyWroteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-85100998222052258972020-02-06T19:05:49.604+11:002020-02-06T19:05:49.604+11:00"or semen in the Onan way …" always deli..."or semen in the Onan way …" always delighted to see your canary get a mention, Dorothy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-56410098815357565202020-02-06T17:40:18.990+11:002020-02-06T17:40:18.990+11:00True the Germans did bring rocket science forward ...True the Germans did bring rocket science forward a long way and it was von Braun (as you say, another import :-) ) who was a key to Apollo, but do remember that the first liquid fuel, and multi-stage, rockets were American: Robert Goddard who got the first liquid fuel rocket up in 1926.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-1898603310155074322020-02-06T17:18:18.139+11:002020-02-06T17:18:18.139+11:00' Tis true, but at least they knew the right N...' Tis true, but at least they knew the right Nazis to import to get the rockets flyingdorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-32458689975646232472020-02-06T16:26:03.175+11:002020-02-06T16:26:03.175+11:00Gracious, when will the Savvy Savva have to change...Gracious, when will the Savvy Savva have to change over to a genuine media employer. How long can she stay in Murdochia and write that sort of stuff ... why, it's almost competent journalism. Of the ABC kind that is, but still ...<br /><br />"<i> in a country which once prided itself on its capacity for science</i>."<br /><br />Now I have to disagree there, DP; the USA has only ever prided itself on 'technology' - of the Popular Mechanics kind. It has never prided itself on science - thus having to import so many of its scientists from the rest of the world (including Australia).<br /><br />What America can "pride" itself on is the scope and scale of its opposition to science from its response to smoking=cancer evidence, through to the response to "Pure White and Deadly", adoption of Wakefield's anti-vaxx, the triumph of climate science denial and all the way back to its failure to pick up on one of the great scientific inventions: the transistor (leaving Sony to become great from it). And not to mention the insistent effort to have creationism replace evolution in American schools. And don't give any credit to the American (Watson) for the DNA helix (apart from him stealing Franklin's data, that is) - he doesn't deserve any, that was a wholly British effort.<br /><br />Moon rockets ? Yeah, that's basically just applied technology, not genuine "science".<br /><br />Oh but the Bromancer speaks: "<i>A lot of voters gave Trump a chance because they respected his business competence</i>."<br /><br />And they got exactly what they voted for: lies, grift and fraud. And being from the land of Murdoch, the Bromancer just loves that. It's exactly as you say, DP:<br />" <i>who else could go bankrupt running casinos? Who could deliver Trump University and dozens of other rorts? What a scam artist, and yet the bromancer is a sucker for a scam, at least so long as he's sucking on the Chairman's teat</i> .."<br /><br />And that about says all there is to say. Except that now that the Bromancer has his teeny-bopper crush on The Don at full flow, I guess we just won't be hearing much about Tony, George, Boris, Jacob or Scotty(fM). Such is life.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com