What if he’s a brooding loner who works best alone, like Batman?
Go fuck yourself.
Signed,
Robin and Alfred.
Once you’ve solved the problem of the atom, you’ve pretty much got a solution to the problem of people, too.
Even given the joke, not really. Funding for and running the atom bomb project was a people problem. Hence, getting Einstein to sign a letter he didn’t write.
I believe GPS has to take relativity into account in order to function properly. GPS is pretty darned spiffy; I don’t recall Malcolm X ever having invented anything to keep me from getting lost.
Well, as long as you don’t use GPS. Or, space travel, I guess.
ETA: Darn you, Buckner!!
Wakes up suddenly
What? What did I miss? And what’s this frog doing here?
I guess for many white people, GPS is more important than racial equality. Not me, but I see where you’re coming from.
:dubious:
Ooo-kay then. I thought we were “debating” intelligence. Now it’s equality. Make up your minds!:mad:
The development of the atomic bomb was one of the most tremendously positive developments in human history comparable only possibly to the germ theory of disease.
nvm
Terrible, terrible timing for a typo.
I really think you’re going to have a lot of trouble getting anyone else to take this thread seriously. Not that we couldn’t have a fascinating debate about different kinds of “intelligence”, just not in this thread.
Anyway, I think it’s a bit of an exaggeration to attribute “racial equality” to Malcolm X all by his lonesome.
That sounds super stupid but I’m sure you can explain why it’s not super stupid. Probably will include a bunch of international power politics crap and late night dorm room style philosophy I expect, but let’s see.
Just as giving all the relativity cred to Einstein, no?
Basically yes-there has been no Great Power war since the invention of the atomic bomb. This isn’t even considering the immediate benefits of the atomic bomb in procuring the quick surrender of the Empire of Japan. Funny how you think international power politics is “crap” while defending a bizarre Afrocentrist poster who might as well be a white supremacist parodying one.
So, let’s compare their strengths. Einstein’s strength was physics. He was quite possibly the greatest physicist of all time, and certainly in the top three. Malcolm X’s strength was in understanding people. And while he was certainly great at that, he wasn’t even the greatest of the twentieth century. He wasn’t even the greatest in the civil rights movement: Rev. Martin Luther King was greater than him in that regard.
OK, so instead of comparing their strengths, how about we compare their weaknesses? Einstein was, admittedly, weak in people skills… but at least he recognized that. When offered the presidency of Israel (how many nations offered Malcolm X their leadership, by the way?), he turned it down, because he knew he wouldn’t be good at it.
But now let’s look at Malcolm X’s understanding of the world. The man once played Russian Roulette, and pulled the trigger three times in a row. That is not the mark of a smart man. That is, in fact, the mark of a man so idiotic about how the world works that he can’t even understand how idiotic he is.
So, Einstein’s strength was greater than X’s strength, and his weakness was greater than X’s weakness. Put it together, and I think it’s clear that Einstein was greater overall.
Einstein does not deserve all of the credit for special relativity (just most of it). That was an idea whose time had come, and if Einstein hadn’t developed it, someone else would have within five years. But of course, he did develop it.
He does, however, deserve all of the credit for general relativity. Literally nobody before Einstein had any inkling that one could construct a model for gravity based on curvature, and he proceeded to not only come up with that idea, but to develop it fully entirely on his own.
Plus, of course, the photoelectric effect, and Brownian motion, and his role in developing Bose-Einstein statistics, and his role in designing the EPR experiment, and his work on refrigeration.
And X wasn’t even the primary figure in the civil rights movement. Giving X full credit for civil rights is like giving Chandrasekhar full credit for relativity.
Attributing “GPS” to Einstein is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but yeah, Einstein certainly gets the lion’s share of the “relativity cred”. Whereas Malcolm X really was just one player (and a pretty controversial one at that) in the racial equality field.
(Or what Chronos just said.)
Also, we have relativity now.
Still waitng on that racial equality stuff.