Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.glorb.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:24:03 -0600 Message-ID: <584748AC.47AF@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 15:24:28 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: Wasn't Albert Einstein wrong about that???? References: <5846EA7C.7D57@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-t7dBcUEVYpXKv02nI0i6Y3upsS9DtySwjpzDw8RWdWOms9RQRExrfJih76Nvmiq1wbm4Ft7Er6tIu5u!1jZRNc70URFlXw64BycvPvKkYpUiWJbLkBjbYQrLY9rdX3sHTUgW4wP8kBa/nzEQocumolfhAf5J!Yx34voJktBM= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1985 X-Received-Bytes: 2076 X-Received-Body-CRC: 949529021 Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:459088 sci.physics:608103 sci.physics.relativity:400976 alt.astronomy:287991 Michael Moroney wrote: > > The Starmaker writes: > > >In the last sentence Albert says: > > >"However, > > >such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by > > >air." > > >Wasn't Albert Einstein wrong about that???? > > >If memory serves me well, wasn't the atomic bomb delivered by air transportation? > > That was probably just his thoughts of the time since he figured out a fission > explosion was possible but didn't know what it would take to trigger it (nobody > knew at the time). He was just guesstimating given the capacity of the planes > of the time. After all, Einstein was never involved with the actual design of > the bombs. Here is an actual design of a bomb by Albert Einstein: http://pw1.netcom.com/~starmaker/Albert_Einstein/bomb1.jpg Do you wanna see more?