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   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   john larkin  wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:39:50 +0100, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.   
   > Lodder) wrote:   
   >   
   > >john larkin  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:39:55 +0000, Martin Brown   
   > >> <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> >On 11/02/2026 22:39, john larkin wrote:   
   > >> >> On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:09:43 +0100, nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J.   
   > >> >> Lodder) wrote:   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>> john larkin  wrote:   
   > >> >>>   
   > >> >>>> Why are physics types so often insulting and obnoxious?   
   > >> >>>   
   > >> >>> Their big big problem is their inability to suffer fools gladly.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >Indeed - although it can look rather cruel to onlookers.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >I'm curious though is the Demon brand still existent in demon.nl ?   
   > >> >Or is your handle a throwback to times past? Ping says domain not found.   
   > >> >It was exorcised in the UK soon after Vodaphone got their hands on it.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >> Linked to their enthusiasm to call people fools.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >When the cap fits...   
   > >> >You are arguing out of ignorance and unwilling to learn.   
   > >>   
   > >> You must be a physicist to dispense insuts so eagerly in a discussion   
   > >> group.   
   > >>   
   > >> My opinions about the brutality of the physics world were acquired   
   > >> first-hand.   
   > >>   
   > >> I did find the scientists in a few places to be collegial and happy to   
   > >> brainstorm. LANL and LLNL come to mind.   
   > >   
   > >I doubt that you would be happy having for example   
   > >a young Richard Feynman in the audience   
   > >shouting about how silly and impossible your idea is.   
   > >   
   > >Have you ever read things about Los Alamos in the good old times?   
   > >   
   > >Jan   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > Yes, lots of books, including The Los Alamos Primer and the Rhodes   
   > books. And cool pics and movies of bomb tests.   
      
   Then you must have an idea of the sometimes rough interactions   
   between the various physicists assembled there.   
      
   > My wife had an uncle who photographed the h-bomb shots in the Pacific.   
   > He died young of cancer.   
      
   Like many of the Los Alamos crowd.   
   Feynman even managed to die of two independently acquired   
   rare forms of cancer,   
      
   Jan   
      
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