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   The Starmaker to starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
   Re: A House of Dynamite (2025) (1/2)   
   27 Oct 25 20:52:51   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.tv, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   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-   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>permission to visit him in Princeton. The   
   >>>>>gracious consent came by return mail.   
   >>>>>The visit took place on May 16. After   
   >>>>>the pleasant preliminaries, I asked Ein-   
   >>>>>stein whether he would be willing to be-   
   >>>>>come a consultant for the Navy in general,   
   >>>>>and for me, in the field of high explo-   
   >>>>>sives research, in particular. Einstein was   
   >>>>>tremendously pleased about the offer,   
   >>>>>and very happily gave his consent. He   
   >>>>>felt very bad about being neglected. He   
   >>>>>had not been approached by anyone to   
   >>>>>do any war work since the United States   
   >>>>>entered the war. He said to me, “People   
   >>>>>think that I am interested only in theory,   
   >>>>>and not in anything practical. This is not   
   >>>>>true. I was working in the Patent Office   
   >>>>>in Zurich, and I participated in the de-   
   >>>>>velopment of many inventions. The gyro-   
   >>>>>scope too.”’ I said, “That's fine. You are   
   >>>>>hired.”   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Here is a short explaination of why they hired Albert Einstein:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>" Calvert served on the Jack under Lt. Comdr. Tommy Dykers, and here   
   >>>>is how he describes his sub’s first experience with the Mark 6   
   >>>>exploder: “We worked into an excellent position and fired three   
   >>>>torpedoes—the Jack ’s first war shots of her career. Short of the   
   >>>>predicted torpedo run time, we heard a tremendous explosion. That   
   >>>>should finish him, I thought.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>“‘ Damn those exploders … damn them all to hell! ’ said Dykers as he   
   >>>>looked through the scope.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>“‘The first torpedo prematured … just before it got to the MOT [middle   
   >>>>of the target] … and I don’t know whether the other two passed under   
   >>>>without exploding, or missed. Son of a bitch from Baghdad !’ came the   
   >>>>bitter exclamation from the skipper.” (Despite continuing torpedo   
   >>>>trouble, Jack ’s later forays were considerably more successful.)"   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Einstein soved the problem...   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>"If I were asked to state what specific   
   >>>>contributions were made by Einstein to   
   >>>>our high explosives research, I would   
   >>>>have to say this. New and more effec-   
   >>>>tive high explosives were developed dur-   
   >>>>ing the war, and they were used by the   
   >>>>Navy and the Army (which then included   
   >>>>the Air Force) against Germany, Japan   
   >>>>and their allies. (I found out later that at   
   >>>>least the underwater explosives, possibly   
   >>>>others, were also used in the Korean and   
   >>>>the Vietnam War.) But these develop-   
   >>>>ments were the results of the efforts of   
   >>>>large groups of people, including Ein-   
   >>>>stein."   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Einstein is da bomb!   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>https://archive.navalsubleague.org/1986/dr-einstein-s-torpedo-letter   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>Now, Albert Einstein got paid by the military $25.00 a day for his   
   >>work...   
   >>   
   >>In the movie "A House of Dynamite" (2025) it cost $50 billon   
   >>dollars(and missed the target).   
   >>   
   >>Einstein shouda asked for more money...   
   >   
   >Les not forget..Einstein dropped TWO atomic bombs on Japan! He had   
   >yellow fever.   
   >   
   >'the yellow peril' :(the political or military threat regarded as   
   >being posed by the Chinese or by the peoples of Southeast Asia.)   
   >   
   >Albert Einstein referred to Chinese as 'industrious, filthy, obtuse   
   >people'   
   >   
   >“a peculiar herd-like nation… often more like automatons than people”,   
   >adding: “Even the children are spiritless and look lethargic.”   
   >“bandit-like filthy Levantines”   
   >   
   >https://www.the-independent.com/news/science/albert-einstein-ra   
   ism-travel-diaries-china-japan-zeev-rosenkranz-a8397226.html   
   >   
   >http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s11234.pdf   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >Don't shoot till you see the slant of ther eyes...   
      
      
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