-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 14:41, Martin Marcher wrote: > > Am 13.03.2007 um 19:11 schrieb Mike McCarty: > >> Michelle Konzack wrote: >>> Am 2007-03-08 16:22:20, schrieb Mitja Podreka: >>>> Also everybody in the US would be speaking German in that case. >>>> But I guess this could not happen. The WW2 would for sure last >>>> longer if there were no US help, but the end result would be the same >>> But do you know, that the USA had stolen the knowledge about >>> nuclear fission from the germans? If the german had 5 years >>> more time, maybe the have developed the first Atombomb! >> >> This is ridiculous. Atomic fission was a known phenomenon >> before WWII even started. > > It may be ridicolous, but it is a wll known fact that the winners > (especially former USSR and USA) where fighting to get as many german > scientists as possible behind the scenes. > > Which doesn't mean that Atomic Fisson wasn't known by anyone else at > that time it was just the case that the germans where really advanced in > a lot of scientific fields
Few people who have ever watched the Hitler Channel (i.e., the History Channel, which airs *many* shows on WW2) would deny that. But that's not the point. Nuclear fission *was* discovered by Germans (Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann). However, there was much talk between scientists, as well as papers (both formal & informal). This is how the rest of the scientific world learned of fission, not asinine anti-American theories which can be disproved with 30 seconds of Googling. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF9we+S9HxQb37XmcRAhEUAJ0ewIkYeJjnvYS0FaSorYRFzUGj2ACdGrjh 7Zcx9AQqOPF1qPGJsvGugw4= =FoiH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
