Sounds like you need to enroll her in expensive private pre-school right away.evan_aggie said:
My daughter recently gave me the nickname "hairy monster with a tooty bottom."
She is 3, but I'll do my best to educate her on project manhattan.
One female, repeated. Probably 2 minutes of screen time in a 180 minute long movie.Burdizzo said:
So you're saying there boobs in this movie, and I may not be able to take my kids?
Actually sounds like a big world.BigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:
Was in Artisia,NM whe the first test was made- heard nothing but about 100 miles away. on way back to austin
in Brady when bells went off for the end of ww2.
In Navy 1946 saw where the abombs were stored on Kwajeline. Left Marshalls when the first abomb
test after the end of ww2 went off. was on ship back to states about 250 miles away - looked but saw nor heard nothing.
Small World!
Grandfather worked with him on Little Boy. My 3 kids are well versed on Oppie, Los Alamos and Manhattan project from early age.HollywoodBQ said:
At the request of my Engineering degreed daughter, I just bought tickets to see Oppenheimer in 70mm tomorrow night (the day before it opens nationally - one of the few perks of paying to live in LA).
You would think this is going to be a hooray hashtag Women in STEM story but unfortunately, it's a sad state of education story.
After I bought the tickets, she says to me, now who was this guy? Was he like a Nazi scientist or something?
My jaw hit the floor. Not so much that she didn't know who he was - at least she's going to attend the movie and find out, but the fact that she didn't even know whose side he was on. She does know that we stole some scientists from the Nazis but that is more space program related.
I spent a ton of dough on private girls school in Australia and on out of state tuition at the West Point of the South. I can't believe that they didn't cover the development of The Bomb in either of those settings.
Maybe it's just accepted these days that "Nukes are Bad M'Kay" and they don't even discuss the Manhattan Project in history class.
It's been a long time since I took American History in HS, or US Military History in college but I just can't believe that kids these days would not even know the particulars about how we won the War in the Pacific. Since the Pacific Theater affected Australia the most, you'd think that they would teach schoolchildren that their bacon was saved by The Yanks and their A-Bombs. Also by Yanks like my Grandfather who went to Brisbane before participating in amphibious assaults in New Guinea and The Philippines.
So I asked her why did she want to see a 3 hour long movie (runtime 180 minutes with $22 tickets) if she didn't even know who the guy was. She said she heard it was a good movie.
I sure hope it is a good movie, we'll see.
So my question for the parents out there is - What do your kids know about Robert Oppenheimer, The Manhattan Project, WWII in the Pacific?
Is this just an isolated incident or, are we in the midst of an American History Pandemic?
Politics because - our kids should being taught this at the HS and/or College level.
Many thanks, tech-no, for your comment.techno-ag said:Actually sounds like a big world.BigJim49 AustinNowDallas said:
Was in Artisia,NM whe the first test was made- heard nothing but about 100 miles away. on way back to austin
in Brady when bells went off for the end of ww2.
In Navy 1946 saw where the abombs were stored on Kwajeline. Left Marshalls when the first abomb
test after the end of ww2 went off. was on ship back to states about 250 miles away - looked but saw nor heard nothing.
Small World!
Thank you for your service.
CanyonAg77 said:
If anyone reads the whole thread (I know, it's TexAgs, no one reads the thread, they just comment on the title) that's not a new spoiler, it's already been discussed.
Germany was the hotbed for research into theoretical physics. Lots of the scientists were Jewish. Most of them fled when Hitler came to power. And almost all joined the MP because they were terrified that Hitler would get an A Bomb first.
There was a big celebration at Los Alamos on VE Day, and lots of the scientists thought the program would be shut down as unnecessary. There was a small revolt when they realized it was going ahead, and now aimed at Japan
Old Army Ghost said:
parents not taking responsibility for there childs education and thinkig paying private schools is the answer
Brutal.Tanya 93 said:Old Army Ghost said:
parents not taking responsibility for there childs education and thinkig paying private schools is the answer
their, not there.
child's, not childs.
thinking, not thinkig..
