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From: jonz on 5 Oct 2009 05:42 Je»us wrote: > In article <59cgc5pfquoj3imqqjm3pjnso6rgvnps3q(a)4ax.com>, john4721 > @inbox.com said... > : > :Jason James wrote: > :> > :>Is he the old guy who did time-trials at Bonneville with an old but fast > :>bike, on the salt-flats or whatever they call them? > : > :Yep, and famous Kiwis are so few and far between he's probably the > :next most famous to Edmund Hillary... if you don't count Piggy > :Muldoon. :) > : > :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Munro > > > Footrot Flats and Fred Dagg are probably better well known :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ yep you bogans would be full bottle on that...... -- jonz "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind - boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford,1992
From: D Walford on 5 Oct 2009 05:52 John_H wrote: > user(a)domain.invalid wrote: >> There a lot not on the "list" and many you would not know of but looking >> at the real makers of things look as an example for the Robinson's and a >> lot of seemingly Eu names working on the bomb circa 1941/5 all from >> Unzud , even a couple of Au's there > > Rutherford's protege was Mark Oliphant, who most certainly was > Australian. Rutherford died sometime before WW2, it was Oliphant who > oversaw the Manhattan Project. He also happens to have been one of > the most thoroughly decent people I've ever had the honour to have > been in the same room with (back when I worked for Govco). :) > I got that impression of Oliphant from several interviews I saw, seems he regretted ever having anything to do with the A bomb> Daryl
From: user on 5 Oct 2009 06:53 D Walford wrote: > John_H wrote: >> user(a)domain.invalid wrote: >>> There a lot not on the "list" and many you would not know of but >>> looking at the real makers of things look as an example for the >>> Robinson's and a lot of seemingly Eu names working on the bomb circa >>> 1941/5 all from Unzud , even a couple of Au's there >> >> Rutherford's protege was Mark Oliphant, who most certainly was >> Australian. Rutherford died sometime before WW2, it was Oliphant who >> oversaw the Manhattan Project. He also happens to have been one of >> the most thoroughly decent people I've ever had the honour to have >> been in the same room with (back when I worked for Govco). :) >> > I got that impression of Oliphant from several interviews I saw, seems > he regretted ever having anything to do with the A bomb> > > > Daryl The only ones even slightly happy about the work were the military and even some of them were bothered beyond their Oh goody a bogger bang head-space into consideration of how dangerous owning such a thing had become
From: John_H on 5 Oct 2009 18:13 atec 7 7 wrote: >> user(a)domain.invalid wrote: >>> There a lot not on the "list" and many you would not know of but looking >>> at the real makers of things look as an example for the Robinson's and a >>> lot of seemingly Eu names working on the bomb circa 1941/5 all from >>> Unzud , even a couple of Au's there > > I never met the bloke but I did meet several Kiwis who worked on the >secrete stuff during wwII including Heath Robinson apparently a many >times removed rello who worked on the big banger > Shame we didn't inherit the "smarts" gene ? You've got me there! W. Heath Robinson was a British cartoonist (born and bred). He never made any of the contraptions he's associated with... he only drew them. Are you thinking of some other Heath Robinson? -- John H
From: John_H on 5 Oct 2009 19:30
Scotty wrote: > >The list just goes on and on. Not to forget those who outdone us in the dirty deeds department! ;-) http://www.palestineremembered.com/al-Ramla/Sarafand-al-Kharab/Story14539.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surafend_affair -- John H |