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The Starmaker  
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 More options Oct 9 2012, 3:36 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.sf.written, sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, misc.writing.screenplays
From: The Starmaker <starma...@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:36:33 -0700
Local: Tues, Oct 9 2012 3:36 pm
Subject: Re: "The Martians," ...

The Starmaker wrote:

> Ever since I put up my Albert Einstein page, The Man Who Built The Atomic Bomb..

> I've been getting what seems to be...opposing views.

> Now the opposing views people have put up a web page. Who_Built_the_Atomic_Bomb%3F

> Einstein is not even mentioned *once* on their web page.

> It seems that they
> http://www.atomicheritage.org/

> http://www.atomicheritage.org/mediawiki/index.php/Who_Built_the_Atomi...

> think that The "Martians," built the atomic bomb.

>  "a spaceship from Mars landed in Budapest, dropping off the extraordinarily gifted Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Leo Szilard."

The *real* reason why they called them "Martians"...is because..

is because...
you know these people,
you cannot understand a word they're saying.

They might as well be from Mars.

They don't talk English.

> The Starmaker

> I am reminded of a line in.. a movie?

> There was this kid I grew up with; he was older than me.
> Sorta looked down to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street.
> Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran refrigerators into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too.
> As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to construct a new type of an extremely powerful bomb.
> That kid's name was Albert Einstein, and the bomb he invented was The Atomic Bomb. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts.
>     And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in Manhattan! Someone took the credit for his atomic bomb.
> No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Albert, I knew he was head-strong, talking loud, saying stupid things, writing stupid letters.
> So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen; I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!

I found a statue of albert einstein..

 
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