""I created a weapon to defend the fatherland's borders. It's not my fault that it was sometimes used where it shouldn't have been. This is the fault of politicians," he said." - mkz

Freeman Dyson'in Robert Oppenheimer ve Los Alamos'ta ilk atom bombasini yapan ekip hakkinda bir dedigini getirdi bu aklima.: "In February 1948 Time Magazine published an interview with Oppy in which appeared his famous confession, "In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." Most of the Los Alamos people at Cornell repudiated Oppy's remark indignantly. They felt no sense of sin. They had done a difficult and necessary job to help win the war. They felt it was unfair of Oppy to weep in public over their guilt when anybody who built any kind of lethal weapons for use in war was equally guilty. I understood the anger of the Los Alamos people, but I agreed with Oppy. The sin of the physicists at Los Alamos did not lie in their having built a lethal weapon. To have built the bomb, when their country was engaged in a desperate war against Hitler's Germany, was morally justifiable. But they did not just build the bomb. They enjoyed building it. They had the best time of their lives while building it. That, I believe, is what Oppy hadd in mind when he said they had sinned. And he was right." - mkz

Naz, muhim konulara temas ettin, saat gec oldu, iki dakikada gecistirmeyeyim, bilahare doneyim. - mkz

Yok, burada sabahin koru oldu :) - mkz

Tabi kutupta yasamadigim icin sabahin koru bilmemkac gundur surmuyor :) Hakkini verecegim zaman yazayim dedim, bir turlu gelmedi o zaman, bu saatten sonra da cok anlami olmayacak, ama en azindan bir ek daha yapayim. Gene ilk atom bombasi projesinde calismis, Paul Olum'dan bir alinti. - mkz

"I felt then there was indeed no choice, knowing that the Germans were doing it, and what consequences would be for all of us if they got a nuclear bomb and we did not. But that raises another question. When V.E. Day, victory in Europe, came in the spring of 1945, we were quite certain the Japanese had no bomb. The Japanese had hardly gotten anywhere toward building a bomb, and there was no belief they possibly could have one. Why didn't we all stop and walk off the project then? We no longer needed what we had been trying so hard to achieve. We didn't have to worry about somebody else getting it first. Nonetheless, I know of no one, none of the scientists at Los Alamos, none of our friends, who had to make such a decision. I suppose there are many reasons for what it was. Probably the best, and it is not one to be particularly proud of, is that when you are involved in something like that and carry it close to final creation, it just is hard to stop. You are totally caught up in it." http://hnn.us/article... - mkz

Insan normal sartlarda ahlaki bulmayacagi, rahatsizlik duyacagi bir isi yapmaya karar verebilir turlu sebeplerden. Ama o rahatsizligi, ahlaki dertleri aklinda tutmasi lazim, sartlar yaptigi seyi kabul edilir hale getirdigi icin kendini salivermemesi lazim, diye bir ders cikartiyorum ben bu alintidan. Eger o rahatsizligi hissetmeye devam ederse, sartlar degistiginde, durumu yeniden degerlendirmek gerektiginde bunu fark etmesi daha mumkun olur. Ya da onune o rahatsiz edici durumdan kurtulacak bir firsat ciktiginda o firsati gorebilir belki. Insan genelde tersine, bundan cok daha kaypak (diyeyim) davraniyor. Basta ahlaki olup sonradan olayin degistigi ornekleri gectim, daha bastan ahlaksiz buldugu bir isi yapmak durumunda kaldiginda bile rahatsizliktan kaciyor, gerekirse ahlaki bakisini degistiriyor, esnetiyor, kendi ic huzurunu koruyor, korumaya calisiyor. Ama direnmek lazim bu egilime! - mkz

Senin degindigin, yapilan icatlarin, ulasilan bilimsel sonuclarin ne amaclarla kullanilabilecegini dert etme konusu da cok cetrefilli. Icatlari gectim, ornegin ulasilan bilimsel bir sonuc, yuksek olasilikla irkci yaklasimlari (diyelim) desteklemek icin kullanilacaksa, bu sonuca ulasan bilim insani ne yapmali? Cogunluk sonucu tahrif etmemesi gerektiginde hemfikir olur sanirim. Peki saklamali mi? Tabi boyle incelikli seyleri gectim, dogrudan silah olarak kullanilacak teknolojiler ureten insanlar bile cok sormuyorlar bu sorulari kendilerine. Tam da bu konuyla ilgili bir alinti daha geldi aklima simdi :) gene Dyson'dan. - mkz

"Bomber Command was an early example of the new evil that science and technology have added to the old evils of soldiering. Technology has made evil anonymous. Through science and technology, evil is organized bureaucratically so that no individual is responsible for what happens. Neither the boy in the Lancaster aiming his bombs at an ill-defined splodge on his radar screen, nor the operations officer shuffling papers at squadron headquarters, not I sitting in my little office in the Operational Research Section and calculating probabilities, had any feeling of personal responsibility. None of us ever saw the people we killed. None of us particularly cared." - mkz

Bu arada Paul Olum "kimse birakip gitmedi" diyor ama ben sanirim Weisskopf'un (unlu bir fizikci) anilarinda tam da bu sekilde, Almanya savasi kaybedince projeden cekilmis birinden bahsettigini hatirliyorum hayal meyal. - mkz

AK47 assault rifle designer Kalashnikov dies at 94 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... - mkz