(March 18, 2015 at 12:13 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(March 18, 2015 at 9:11 am)Huggy74 Wrote: That was the calculations of Edward Teller the guy that designed the hydrogen bomb.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2003/septe...t-924.html
Man. You are the most dishonest person on the internet. You continually think we approach life like you do---just find the blurb that works for you, ignore everything else, and post it like we won't check it for your inevitable quote mine.
Let's look at the rest of the quote from your article:
Stanford Article Wrote:More important, all but Teller had agreed that the project would narrow its scope toward the construction of a fission bomb. Teller decided that they should go well beyond that toward a thermonuclear device, a fusion bomb.(bold mine, showing what you quote mined and what the context was)
His constant attempts to get support for the "Super," as he called it, were seen by many, including Oppenheimer, as a distraction. He became even more of a distraction when he produced equations that showed the possibility that a fission weapon could ignite the world's atmosphere. It was later discovered his calculations were wrong -- and a dozen other men made similar mistakes later -- but work stopped until the flaw was found.
Notice how everyone else wanted to go for a fission weapon (Atomic Bomb) and Teller wanted to go for a fusion weapon (H-Bomb) He was the only one. So he produced equations that showed that the weapon that everyone else was pursuing would destroy the world.
So this man made a claim that people tested and proved wrong (you know, science), and you want to make it out like all of "science" thought the fission weapon would destroy the earth.
You dishonest troll.
*Edited to get fission/fusion correct, I put them in here backwards! (Thanks Parkers Tan!)
How was I dishonest?
First of all i was talking off the top of my head, secondly I had already established that the calculations were proven wrong.... that was the main point I was making, that scientists sometime get things wrong.
So unless you're trying to say that they don't, what point are you trying to make?