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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 12:28 PM Original message |
"Energy resources and our future" - remarks by Admiral Hyman Rickover delivered in 1957 |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Ah, father of the nuclear navy. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-04-06 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. He was rare inasmuch his remarks were prescient. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. This is an incredibly prescient piece. |
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IDemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 03:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Why was no one listening? |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 04:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. People were ususally comfortable and optimistic in the '50s. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 08:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Jimmy Carter's mentor was Rickover. |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 05:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. "his decision to kiss up to the Shah of Iran"--on the advice of Henry Kissinger. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 05:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Still Carter did that. |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 11:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. No, the GREATEST mistake is that Svante Arrhenius postulated global warming in 1898... |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 03:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. It is probably the single most prescient piece written in the 1950's about energy |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 04:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. You commented. You are braver than I, |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 08:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I know about the Michigan program. It's excellent. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 08:59 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. That's a great pitch. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 09:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I spent a lot of time in Kalamazoo and in Holland on business. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-05-06 10:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I lived in northern Hudson County, NJ, for seven years. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:02 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Well, I was in Michigan mostly for business purposes. I avoided discussing politics. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Encourage them to study history or a modern language. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I'll consider that. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Give it a few years. |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:49 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. It's probably the case that these facts won't affect them when their young. |
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