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To: Right Wing Professor
***No. These aren't science. They're technological applications.***

To separate science from it's practical applications is artificial.

The physicist who worked on the atomic bomb saw the inseparability when they wrestled over the ethical and moral implications of their work.
114 posted on 10/28/2005 7:29:37 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus
The physicist who worked on the atomic bomb saw the inseparability when they wrestled over the ethical and moral implications of their work.

The atom bomb was technology, not science. Science was Meitner's experiments with fission.

141 posted on 10/29/2005 7:43:48 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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