BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD (2003)

Subject: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 12:34 AM

He was Albert Einstien's most hated colleague.

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 01:26 AM

He was not a man to be trusted either. His gross disrespect of Oppenheimer had a lot to do with Oppie's demise (although I don't think he cared). Szilard had a really nasty comment about him as well although I don't remember it exactly.....Had to do with claiming credit for other's work. Bethe was no fan of his and even my hero, the light and humorous (and incredibly brilliant) Richard Feynman had little good to say of Teller.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 05:17 AM

Shame he didn't take his H-bombs with him; but maybe they don't need 'em wherever he's gone!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: Peter T.
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 08:20 AM

Star Wars lives on. Good riddance. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 08:42 AM

Dead, and better so, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: MarkS
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 10:54 AM

Anybody know his age and cause of death?

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: Wolfgang
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 10:59 AM

95, following a stroke

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: Art Thieme
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 11:00 AM

As a last meal, he ate nuclear fission chips !!

A monestary ran the restaurant. 2 guys behind the counter. The fish friar and the chip monk !

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: Joe_F
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 11:14 AM

I heard him speak, back in the '60s, at a meeting of the American Physical Society. He was, as usual, whooping up nuclear explosions, trying (without great success, as far as I could tell) to get physicists fired up about all the neat experiments they could do with them. He made, I thought at the time, a good parody of Dr Strangelove.

Rest in peace.

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: jimmyt
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 11:26 AM

now that he has followed his partner in comedy, William Penn, the comedy world has lost another great duo

Subject: RE: BS: Ed Teller finally DEAD
From: Don Firth
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 05:16 PM

A couple of decades ago, Washington State had a governor by the name of Dixie Lee Ray. She was a professor of marine biology at the University of Washington, and at one time she was the director of the Pacific Science Center. When she ran for governor, people voted for her for various reasons, one of which was the she was a woman, and a lot of hard-charging feminists voted for her for that alone. But most people who voted for her thought that, due to her background, she would be a strong advocate for environmental issues.

Wrong!! She turned out of be the environmentalists' worst nightmare. Among other things, she advocated bringing supertankers into Puget Sound. In such an enclosed waterway—a long, narrow neck of water essentially the same as a fjord—a disaster like the Exxon Valdez oil spill would have had far worse ecological consequences than it did in Prince Williams Bay (which, God knows, were bad enough), and considering the twists and turns a supertanker would have to navigate, there would be a far greater chance of something like that happening. Flying in the face of voter initiatives, she refused to close down the nuclear waste dump at Hanford, and in a state that is famous for it's relatively inexpensive hydropower, she advocated spending billions on dotting the entire state with nuclear power plants. She and Edmund Teller knew and greatly admired each other. They met at some conference somewhere and each spoke glowingly about the other.

Walt Robertson, the dean of Pacific Northwest folk singers, wrote a talking blues that managed to go the rounds during Dixie's reign. I wish I had learned it or had a copy of it, because Walt had some great lines in it. Among other things, he identified The Gov as "Dixie Lethal Radiation," and, noting that since she had not chosen to marry and have off-spring, her concern with future generations, if she had any concerns for them at all, would have been purely academic. He noted the admiration between Dixie and Teller, and speculated that, were they to mate, he didn't know what they would produce, but whatever it was, it would undoubtedly glow it the dark. Also, between the two of them, they could preside of the world's first radioactive oil spill.

It would be dated now, but it was a great talking blues.

The times I saw Teller on television, I never once saw him smile. He looked like a frightened old man, and I think that's exactly what he was. His paranoia seemed to let him feel a bit safer as long as he had The Bomb.

Unfortunately, it seems that there are some people in this world who are disasters!

Don Firth