09-04-2002, 06:48 PM
Two guys for me: Robert Goddard & Neils Bohr
(two scientists, big fucking shock)
Robert Goddard is the forgotten father of the rocket. He was the first guy to do experiments wuing rocket propulsion way before the Germans were making the V-2. But no one in America seemed to acknolwedge his existance because his ideas were too whacky for the early 20th century (like going into space on a rocket...remember, this is before the Wright Brothers).
Interesting story concerning Goddard:
Most of the rocket engineers for the space program were former German rocket scientists from WWII. The head of the rocket program at NASA was a German guy named Wener van Brahm (sp?). One time, when he was working on the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo moon landing, a reporter asked him how he came up with some of the theories and laws predicting rocket behavior. Van Brahm turned to the reporter and said, "I didn't, your Robert Goddard did 30 years ago and you never noticed." Now that is a recommendation
Neils Bohr is the guy who first proposed what atomic structure looked like, but he was also an incredible physicist and mathmatician. Much of what is now quantum physics is based on his work.
(two scientists, big fucking shock)
Robert Goddard is the forgotten father of the rocket. He was the first guy to do experiments wuing rocket propulsion way before the Germans were making the V-2. But no one in America seemed to acknolwedge his existance because his ideas were too whacky for the early 20th century (like going into space on a rocket...remember, this is before the Wright Brothers).
Interesting story concerning Goddard:
Most of the rocket engineers for the space program were former German rocket scientists from WWII. The head of the rocket program at NASA was a German guy named Wener van Brahm (sp?). One time, when he was working on the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo moon landing, a reporter asked him how he came up with some of the theories and laws predicting rocket behavior. Van Brahm turned to the reporter and said, "I didn't, your Robert Goddard did 30 years ago and you never noticed." Now that is a recommendation
Neils Bohr is the guy who first proposed what atomic structure looked like, but he was also an incredible physicist and mathmatician. Much of what is now quantum physics is based on his work.
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Your pocket Bible will stop an assailant's bullet, but not before it passes through four innocent bystanders, a school-bus gas tank, and your genitals.
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Your pocket Bible will stop an assailant's bullet, but not before it passes through four innocent bystanders, a school-bus gas tank, and your genitals.