AW: [ RadSafe ] RE: SCIENTIST PRESIDENT

[Rainer.Facius at dlr.de]

Her name is ANGELA Merkel,

and despite being physicist and knowing that nuclear power must be part of our "energy-mix", she is too weak-kneed to withstand the rampant radiophobia in our country. The mood of the uninformed and/or misguided electorate is more important to her than her better insight. Otherwise her better insight would not make a difference either, because she would be deselected. 

Dr. Rainer Facius
German Aerospace Center
Institute of Aerospace Medicine
Linder Hoehe
51147 Koeln
GERMANY
Voice: +49 2203 601 3147 or 3150
FAX:   +49 2203 61970

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Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag von Peterson, Ken
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 2. Oktober 2008 15:56
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: [ RadSafe ] RE: SCIENTIST PRESIDENT


 
I don't think that is the answer:  Jimmy Carter was a physicist....

And so is Andrea Merkel, and while I consider her an order of magnitude brighter than either Presidential Candidate (and 10 orders of magnitude brighter than either VP), I don't know if you can call the current state of Germany Nirvana - except maybe during Oktoberfest....

Ken Peterson
LCS Sustainment
Marinette Marine Corp.
1600 Ely St. 
Marinette, WI 54143
715-735-9341


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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:07:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sam Iverstine <sam_iverstine at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] [RadSafe]Mission to Mars---Fission Propulsion
To: radsafe at radlab.nl
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Space exploration was the main impetus that got myself and many other scientists interested in science [I actually thought becoming a health physicist with nuclear navy background would qualifiy me to do work on spacecraft]. Even if the space exploration challenge is pie in the sky, it still motivates me to this day to do better science.  Perhaps over-extended space exploration will motivate a generation of scientists and the US will one day have a scientist president (vs. lawyer) and we will all achive nirvanna and have Plato's philosopher-king as our leader. 

Cheers!

Sam Iverstine, MS, CHP

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