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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
If nothing else it is a great learning gizmo to keep the physicist employed, and not going off the China to get jobs.
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No joke, we helped support some of the ex-soviet weapons scientists thirty years ago just to keep them on the "good" side. With the USSR in ashes many of them were near poverty. We had some visiting in Los Alamos for a Pu conference in 2001-ish and just laid on the hospitality. Most had never left their country before that and they told many tales of the brainwashing that "americans are mean and evil". And yes, we did take them to Macys on the way to the ABQ airport and they did fill up on Levis...