Which of these is the name of the person in charge of the Manhattan Project?

posted 26-Jul-2002 5:02pm

I don't think anyone is in charge of the Manhattan Project anymore... it was completed a long time ago. Oppenheimer lead the project. People mostly use his middle name, Robert. He died in '67...

dora

(reply to romkey) posted 26-Jul-2002 6:22pm

HAH!! So I wasn't dreaming,he was really called Robert!!!

posted 26-Jul-2002 6:41pm

I think its still classified.

I don't think it was Einstein. He was appauled soon after he found out what his dicoverives led to.

And wasn't Bohr a German physist anyway. I doubt he had anything to do with an Amerian project.

(reply to dora) posted 26-Jul-2002 7:18pm

yep!

(reply to southernyankee) posted 26-Jul-2002 7:25pm

Oppenheimer was appalled as well.

Bohr was Danish. Bohr's wife was Jewish and Bohr himself had some Jewish blood. He had no love for the Nazi's (a lot of Germans didn't), and he did help out the US on the Manhattan Project.

harekrishnadasa

posted 27-Jul-2002 12:56am

General Leslie R. Groves directed the Manhattan Project.

http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/manhattanproject.cfm

posted 27-Jul-2002 1:23am

Well there are many people on this list that certainly deserve the position if they are still there. Oh, silly me, I was thinking of the Philadelphia project.
In my hometown, Santa Cruz, CA, we had a mural of Einstein warily bicycling his way though a crowd of Geishas.

posted 27-Jul-2002 1:31am

I hate this netscape editor box; it's a philadelphia project reject, missing new type, repeating old type, etc.

posted 27-Jul-2002 2:41am

It's a trick question! You have to write-in Charles Nelson Riley.
Right? Did I get it right?

(reply to Kristal_Rose) posted 27-Jul-2002 2:47am

Which e-mail do you check often? And, I need to visit your site again, remember? (Link again, please - sorry.) I have a UFO story - from just the other night!

(reply to NthenSome) posted 28-Jul-2002 12:53am

oh my god I can barely begin to imagine what we would've dropped on Japan if Charles Nelson Reilly were in charge of the Manhattan Project. We probably would have laughed a lot instead of crying though...

(reply to romkey) posted 28-Jul-2002 1:18am

nnnnnnggg! nng! ng!

(reply to NthenSome) posted 28-Jul-2002 2:31am

I only use the msn one. I don't know where people are even finding the others.

(reply to NthenSome) posted 28-Jul-2002 2:33am

was he the dean in those disney science college movies?

(reply to Kristal_Rose) posted 28-Jul-2002 3:10am

I only remember Charles Nelson Reilly on 'Match Game '76 through ??' Remember that game show? J.P. Morgan, Richard Dawson (as part of the panel), that short guy and that other old woman. And that person.
(Have you too detected that I should probably give up my project tonight and go to bed?)
I'm working on expanding my db at Par to include item specific apparatus of our inventories, which will help on the other end of things as far as reports capabilities go. Unfortunately, we of course ran into a snag on the rollout for our new system. It's good for me though - I still have yet to get a physical inventory going at five locations! AAAAAaaaaaaaccccck! Why did you bring this up?
You didn't? What were we talking about again? 'Family Feud'?
No. We were discussing my essence in bed. I think I shall depart.

(reply to NthenSome) posted 28-Jul-2002 4:39am

I can tell you how to integrate a complete bar-coding system for less that a $100 (I once wrote an inventory control system for a non-profit agency that channelled used office furniture to 7000 SF area NP's), so we should discuss that before you get too involved, or waste $3000 on some barcode module.

, yes, perhaps you should depart now. i had feeling between comments.
I think the Reilly I was recalling was from the Ghost and Mrs. Muir. (and i think he did end up in those disney movies). J. P. Morgan was on a game show?

(reply to NthenSome) posted 28-Jul-2002 9:22am

he also guest starred on an X-Files and a Millennium episode as a fictional writer named 'Jose Chung'... that was great TV.

(reply to romkey) posted 28-Jul-2002 3:23pm

oh, my mistake. I must have him mistaken for someone else.

I might have been Hyndenberg. He came up with the Hyndenberg principle of uncertainy. For all the great things he did for physics, he did work for the Nazis though.

(reply to Kristal_Rose) posted 28-Jul-2002 5:02pm

REALLY?!
I'm glad you said something because that exactly one of the things I'm doing for the Camera Department this weekend! In doing this, I found that the hardware is incidental really to the entire capability, so I've put a hold on purchasing anything (software) yet to integrate our new inventory tracking system.
Our projected cost for the software/hardware system was...well much higher than what you're posing here, let's say.
Maybe we've finally found what you could take on as an employed project...?! I really want to sit down to the details to that (because you really could get a nicely-$$ job from it, I think). So, my questions would commence in the area of..."Is the program legal?"
Let's talk this week!

(reply to southernyankee) posted 28-Jul-2002 5:46pm

that was Heisenberg - Hindenburg was the blimp guy

yeah, Heisenburg was a student of Bohr's. Heisenberg did work on the Nazi's nuclear program, I believe mostly in trying to develop nuclear power. There's speculation that he intentionally held them back to try to keep them from creating the atom bomb; I'm not familiar enough with him to be sure if that's verified or just speculation.

I saw your comment in reply to my Charles Nelson Reilly comment and for a moment I had Charles Nelson Reilly building great flaming, crashing blimps, too...

(reply to romkey) posted 28-Jul-2002 6:47pm

I meant Hindenburg. I just spell really really bad. And they both end in "burg"

Damn German names. Oh, speaking of German names, Mandy was making fun of me because I spelled "Kneechee" by the way it sounds. Could you please give me the correct spelling.

(reply to southernyankee) posted 28-Jul-2002 7:07pm

oh - yeah I noticed that. I didn't say anything because I'm not sure I can spell his name correctly either

. I'm guessing "Nietzche" - nope, I just looked it up and it's "Nietzsche, Friedrich".

(reply to NthenSome) posted 28-Jul-2002 7:07pm

It's the equipment (for one user) that costs a $100 (handheld IR wand with memory). The rest of it is knowing hushed primitive software tricks. Usually they make their money selling inventory packages that cost more to integrate with your existing system than modifying your own from scratch. The only legal obligations I have beyond any other taxpayer is that I don't resale certain code I've written code in the travel reservation industry.

(reply to romkey) posted 28-Jul-2002 7:10pm

Yeah, were in bad shape if some ship called the Heisenburg goes up in flames.

(reply to romkey) posted 28-Jul-2002 8:54pm

wow!, you were off by only one letter.

Where did you look it up, a spell check??

(reply to southernyankee) posted 29-Jul-2002 12:38am

I used Google, my favorite search engine... if it sees something that looks like a mispelling it'll ask about it and suggest the correct spelling

(reply to romkey) posted 29-Jul-2002 12:42am

I finally installed the google tool bar - it's fricken GREAT! (With Internet Explorer, that is.) I really like google too.

(reply to NthenSome) posted 29-Jul-2002 12:54am

cool! yeah, I use the Google toolbar all the time.

(reply to NthenSome) posted 29-Jul-2002 12:54am

we need a Charles Nelson Reilly toolbar!

Jemmy

posted 29-Jul-2002 3:14pm

Linda Satchel.

Locutus

(reply to harekrishnadasa) posted 29-Jul-2002 5:16pm

I would like the name of the scientific director, please.

harekrishnadasa

(reply to Locutus) posted 29-Jul-2002 6:22pm

OIC http://www.doug-long.com/oppie.htm

(reply to romkey) posted 29-Jul-2002 7:23pm

Oh, anytime I'am not sure of a spelling of some word or name, I use a word procesor for its spell check. My next choice would be some sort of a search engine.

(reply to southernyankee) posted 29-Jul-2002 7:29pm

Do a spell check on each word individually and second guess the answer. Let the spell check teach you rather than make you even more sloppy in your spelling. Besides, spell checks take extra time you could be avoiding.

Biggles

posted 30-Jul-2002 10:41am

I'm from Barcelona.

joachim

(reply to romkey) posted 8-Aug-2002 12:43am

Oppenheimer may or may not have been appalled (hey wait a minute didn't he do the hydrogen bomb and not the Manhattan project and also was there a code word for the H-bomb project and was it like the Brooklyn Project or something but I digress) about the detonation of the first atomic device. Apparently he wasn't too appalled to keep him from designing a succession of even less pleasant and vastly more destructive weapons. He was one of the strongest proponents of the x-ray laser that would have been the cornerstone of the brilliant pebbles "Star Wars" program. Plus his grandson was an butt-hole and had a head shaped like a gourd and I don't care who knows it.