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From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com
"This morning at 7 a.m. we went on land and, together with the Du
Plâtres, viewed the Hindu quarter of Colombo and a Buddhist temple.20
We drove in individual little carts that were drawn on the double by
Herculean
and yet so refined people. I was very much ashamed of myself for being
complicit in such despicable treatment of human beings
but couldn’t change anything. Because these beggars in the form of
kings descend in droves on any foreigner until he has surrendered to
them. They know how to implore and to beg until one’s heart is shaken
up. On the streets of the indigenous quarter one can see how these
fine people spend their primitive lives.21 For all their fineness,
they give the impression that the climate prevents them from thinking
backward or forward by more than a quarter of an hour. They live in
great filth and considerable stench down on the ground, do little, and
need little. Simple economic cycle of life. Far too penned up to allow
any distinct existence for the individual. Half-naked, they reveal
their fine and yet powerful bodies and their fine, patient faces.
Nowhere
shouting like the Levantines in Port Said. No brutality, no market
crying existence, but quiet, acquiescent drifting along, albeit not
lacking in a certain lightheartedness. Once you take a proper look at
these people, you can hardly take pleasure in the Europeans anymore,
because they are more effete and more brutal and look so much cruder
and greedier—and therein unfortunately lies their practical
superiority, their ability to take on grand things and carry them out.
Wouldn’t we too, in this climate, become like the Indians?" -Albert
Einstein
On Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:39:47 -0800, The Starmaker
wrote:
>Einstein seems to see the Japanese as less than fully human—he
>definitely perceives their individuality as not fully developed. His
>first recorded impression of Japanese women is almost caricature-like:
>he describes them as “crawling about [on deck] with children. They
>look ornate and bewildered, almost as if stylized. Black-eyed,
>black-haired, large-headed, scurrying.” After three weeks on board,
>Einstein does not seem to have penetrated the mysterious nature of his
>fellow Japanese passengers: “Japanese very devout. Weird fellows whose
>state is at the same time their religion.” His first encounters with
>Japanese music add to his sense of alienation: he finds their music
>“very foreign” and their singing made him “dizzy.”
>
>
>So, a penquin walks into a bar and ask
>the bartender, "Have you seen my brother"?
>
>the bartender sez, "What does he look like?"
>
>
>
>
>On Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:35:53 -0800, The Starmaker
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:01:21 -0700, The Starmaker
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:33:57 -0700, The Starmaker
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:24:58 -0700, The Starmaker
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:21:12 -0700, The Starmaker
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:48:04 -0700, The Starmaker
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:21:37 -0700, The Starmaker
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:52:17 -0700, The Starmaker
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:37:15 -0700, The Starmaker
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:28:04 -0700, The Starmaker
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:36:36 -0700, The Starmaker
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>In the 1940's
>>>>>>>>>>>>the department of war
>>>>>>>>>>>>the military,
>>>>>>>>>>>>had the same problem...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>they sat around a table
>>>>>>>>>>>>they had a conference
>>>>>>>>>>>>and their solution was...
>>>>>>>>>>>>Albert Einstein.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>First I have to tell you the background
>>>>>>>>>>>of how Einstein and I became acquainted.
>>>>>>>>>>>At the time of Pearl Harbor, I was a re-
>>>>>>>>>>>search chemist in the U. S. Department
>>>>>>>>>>>of Agriculture. Soon after that, I applied
>>>>>>>>>>>for a commission in the Navy. After a
>>>>>>>>>>>long drawn-out fight with the Navy,
>>>>>>>>>>>which included one rejection, I won the
>>>>>>>>>>>fight, and received my commission as a
>>>>>>>>>>>full lieutenant (equivalent to a captain
>>>>>>>>>>>in the Army) on September 2, 1942.
>>>>>>>>>>>After that it took more than a month until
>>>>>>>>>>>I located a billet in the Bureau of Ord-
>>>>>>>>>>>nance and was called in for active duty.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Mr. Clark, following Gamow’s book,
>>>>>>>>>>>wrote about the “Division of High Ex-
>>>>>>>>>>>plosives” in the Bureau of Ordnance,
>>>>>>>>>>>but there was no such thing. The Bureau
>>>>>>>>>>>had a “Research and Development Divi-
>>>>>>>>>>>sion (Re),"" the ision had a section
>>>>>>>>>>>called “Ammunition and Explosives
>>>>>>>>>>>(Re2)", and the section had a subsec-
>>>>>>>>>>>tion called “High Explosives and Propel-
>>>>>>>>>>>lants (Re2c)."” I was assigned to Re2c.
>>>>>>>>>>>It had two other reserve officers in it
>>>>>>>>>>>when I joined, and we divided the work
>>>>>>>>>>>among ourselves. One became head of
>>>>>>>>>>>propellant research, I became head of
>>>>>>>>>>>high explosives research, and the third,
>>>>>>>>>>>who was a lieutenant j.g., became my
>>>>>>>>>>>assistant and deputy. I was, on the basis
>>>>>>>>>>>of my broad experience in the field, ex-
>>>>>>>>>>>cellently qualified for my assignment. I
>>>>>>>>>>>knew the names of two high explosives:
>>>>>>>>>>>TNT and dynamite. With that knowl-
>>>>>>>>>>>edge, I became head of high explosives
>>>>>>>>>>>research and development for the world’s
>>>>>>>>>>>largest Navy!
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>But I was young and learned fast;
>>>>>>>>>>>furthermore, the staff kept on growing as.
>>>>>>>>>>>the war progressed. I acquired two
>>>>>>>>>>>groups of civilian scientists; one headed
>>>>>>>>>>>by one of the speakers at this meeting,
>>>>>>>>>>>Raymond J. Seeger; another of tonight's
>>>>>>>>>>>speakers, Harry Polachek, was in this
>>>>>>>>>>>group; the other group was headed by
>>>>>>>>>>>Gregory Hartmann, who eventually be-
>>>>>>>>>>>came Technical Director of the post-
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
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