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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Inappropriate rejections in science (was: Truzzi Lecture)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.234750.25011@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:47:50 GMT
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- In article <104225@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
- >The chemical reactivity of the heavier noble (fka inert) gases is
- >something that anyone could have detected for decades, but didn't
- >since everyone knew it simply could not happen.
-
- I recall Isaac Asimov mentioning in an essay (vague reference there :-). It
- might have been in his noble gases book, though) that detecting the reactivity
- earlier than it really was detected wasn't feasible: it was hard to get a lot
- of xenon, and fluorine is a _really_ difficult element to store and work with.
- I remember being rather puzzled when I read Asimov's comments, since I knew
- of no need to refute a claim I never heard, but I found out later that John
- Campbell had used it as an example of how scientists are closed-minded.
-
- Note the newsgroups line. If you remove the Asimov and Campbell references,
- please change the group line appropriately.
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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