SpaceGazelle wrote:It's odd they've only just found this a few days ago. You'd think the Challenger disaster enquiry might've bothered to look for it {...}
Blue Swirl wrote:Your first point was that they didn't look. Having had that disproved, you say they did a bad job of it. They used dozens of ships, submarines, and planes, operated by multiple federal agencies, immediately after the explosion, and they didn't find that particular part, no. But they did find a lot of it. I fail to see how this becomes 'hur dur dur NASA is dum'.
SpaceGazelle wrote:He's got some stiff competition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
monkey wrote:The next theoretical breakthrough will be some AI brute-forcing through all the possibilities.
SpaceGazelle wrote:I think my favorite boffin is still Einstein. Imagination will get you far when you're not that good at maths. I don't suppose we'll ever see another like him mainly because you need a large international team and a few billion pounds to get anywhere in physics these days.
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