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Article #857Re: Inappropriate rejections in science (was: Truzzi Lecture)
From: Phil Mueller
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:07
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:07
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In article <1993Jan10.234750.25011@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes: >In article <104225@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes: >>The chemical reactivity of the heavier noble (fka inert) gases is >>something that anyone could have detected for decades, but didn't >>since everyone knew it simply could not happen. > >I recall Isaac Asimov mentioning in an essay (vague reference there :-). It It was "Welcome, Stranger!", xenon being the Greek word for stranger. I forget which essay collection it was in. The point was that flourine was very dangerous, and chemists didn't know how to handle it until WW2. It was then used for Uraninium hexaflouride, and we all know why that was important. -- Phil Mueller mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com "Oh I get it. This .signature is even stupider than I thought." Joel, Time of the Apes (??)
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Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,rec.arts.sf.written Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!infonode!ingr!b30news!mueller From: mueller@b30news.b30.ingr.com ( Phil Mueller ) Subject: Re: Inappropriate rejections in science (was: Truzzi Lecture) Message-ID: <1993Jan12.220721.12275@b30.ingr.com> Sender: mueller@b30.ingr.com (Phil Mueller) Organization: Intergraph References: <1in24aINNb2f@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <104225@netnews.upenn.edu> <1993Jan10.234750.25011@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:07:21 GMT Lines: 19