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To: nuke rocketeer
interesting stories from Los Alamos on "tickling the tiger" from a physics prof I had, etc.

Feyman, I believe.

52 posted on 03/14/2005 11:20:52 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: skinkinthegrass
While doing a google search on tickling the tiger came across this site..???:

The Enchanted Bomb

53 posted on 03/14/2005 12:03:56 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: skinkinthegrass

It wasn't Feynman. This prof never was one of the famous ones and I'll be damned if I can remember his name. He was one of the many junior physicists on the staff. The one story that sticks out in my mind was the calculation department. There were several mathameticians who broke down the equations into a series of additions and subtractions, which were then given to an army of female clerks operating the old mechanical adding machines. The only computers were tied up calculating ballistic trajectories for the Army and Navy. AS each clerk finished her assignment, it was given back to the mathametician for further integration. He said the noise in those old Quonset huts was deafening.


56 posted on 03/14/2005 7:07:39 PM PST by nuke rocketeer
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