OT: The Radioactive Boy Scout

Does anyone remember this case?

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I would have thought any parent that had such a child should be extremely proud of them. Certainly if this had happened prior to the 1980s, that would have been the case. Today such a young person would be smeared and feared as some sort of would-be terrorist weirdo and dangerous to the "community" (whatever the f*ck that is). The authorities nowadays - in the West at any rate - despise and fear anyone unusually intelligent, curious and adventurous for their age. They seem horrified when a young person shows no interest in being enslaved by the entertainment industry and chooses to pursue something more challenging and rewarding instead. :(

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"He was subsequently treated for mental illness, and his death at age thirty-nine was related to alcohol use." He died of alcohol poisoning and was a nut case. Yes, a child to be proud of.

Rick C.

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Remember this one?

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Nope. I was 3 years old when it was introduced.

In 2002, I did a thallium treadmill stress test. Afterwards, I went around to some of my customers with a Geiger counter doing a live demo of radioactivity. I got some surprising reactions. Here's the story from a previous rant on the topic:

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A genius idea in principle if not in practice!

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He was clearly too smart for his peers. Kids with unusually inquiring minds often struggle socially, having no one to relate to. Must have been a lonely existence. He was born on the wrong planet.

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Hahn committed a number of serious crimes to conduct his experiments including fraud and whatever statues he violated related to making your own home into a Superfund cleanup site, sounds like for all that he was never convicted or maybe even charged with anything and was admitted to college, then successfully joined and was honorably discharged from the military.

They went easy on him but naturally "the authorities" are the bad guys here. Well that's gratitude for ya. There are kids in the US who are barred from getting a government loan or grant for college or joining the military forever for selling like 1 oz of weed.

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Feel the power! Be the first on your street to rule the neighborhood. The next stop will be global domination.

"13-year-old Jamie Edwards has become the youngest in the world to build a nuclear fusion reactor"

Science blunders onward...

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Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman coped with that particular problem, rat her more successfully, probably because they were a whole lot smarter.

David Hahn might have been bright - though the fact that he was careless ab out handling radioactive materials suggests that he wasn't all that clever

- but he might also have been somewhere on the autism spectrum which would fit better with his dubious social relationships.

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bill.sloman

Presumably he was investigating the "sphinx's inscrutable smile"...

Mike.

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Mike Coon

I've just started watching "Young Sheldon" ("Big Bang Theory" prequel)...

Mike.

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Mike Coon

"the world doesn't understand me! I'm just too smart. they're all jealous and out to get me. sniff. a bew hew hew."

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bitrex

Most people in the world know better than to pro actively invest a lot of time and effort in socially awkward loners, it's rare that doing so ever ends up being worth the time invested.

If they want to have healthy friendships and romantic relationships they have to choose to suck it up and get out there and interact with the hoi polloi like everyone else, social skills are learned through practice, trial and error like most things, it doesn't happen by magic.

If they can't find anyone else in the whole world that meets their exacting high standards to "relate to" then that's tough shit Your Majesty.

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bitrex

obviously

no it suggests he wasn't mature. This is alll too obvious for slow man though.

EE companies certainly did that. Patents can be a nice payback.

loners are loners because they've done that & don't much like people

Once the iq gap is over 30 points it's a futile exercise. Hiqers have an easier life of it if they pick other hiqers to socialise/date with.

NT

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tabbypurr

I don't think most really tried. I don't think they really wanted it. If that's the case then that's on them, not anyone else. I think a lot of people underestimate how much work it really is. It's cool if someone doesn't want to put in that work, but that isn't the fault of the world at large or other people.

"Futile" in what sense? In the sense that it's the person's responsibility with the say 115 IQ in a relationship vs. 140 to do...what exactly. Understand you and your deeeeeeep complexity and amazeballs thoughts? Most lesser humans would say f*ck off, bro, if that were the deal on offer. And they'd be well-justified in saying it - what is it that this braniac is bringing to the table other than a puzzle, anyway?

But I don't see any evidence in the real world that romantic relationships between super smart people are any less turbulent and dramatic on average than the "professional" ones between some of the super smart guys here.

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Clearly simple fusion is not so hard. I'll give him kudos when he achieves "cold" fusion.

Rick C.

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One has to start somewhere. Rule the neighborhood this week. Power the world next week. The nice part is that a 13 year old probably doesn't know what is possible and what is impossible. Give him the task of demonstrating cold fusion, not only will he try, but he has a better chance of success than all those who are thoroughly convinced

cold fusion experiment will likely cost more. Give him a lab, some time, and maybe some qualified mentors, and methinks he might just get his kudos.

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all but a rare few have spent time with people. They don't want it because they don't like them.

futile in that attempting to understand each other just isn't going to happen. You can't have any genuine relationship between people that routinely misunderstand each other at every level.

NT

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tabbypurr

8 billion people in the world and can't find nobody to like? Sounds like a "their problem"

Humans routinely misunderstand each other constantly, day in and day out, even people in friendships or marriages for 30 years. Welcome to life, sorry if u were expecting something different

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you're not really getting it are you.

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