okay okay so like i don’t wanna kill the party but i just saw an instagram shop selling a shirt that says now i am become death the destroyer of worlds in barbie font and i just sigh i just like i get the novelty of barbie and oppenheimer weekend but i have got to stress the bomb changed the entire world forever and wiped out over a quarter of a million people i think maybe we gotta kinda take a step back here when we start selling it as if it’s fun hot girl summer fodder
before you start babygirling oppenheimer just know that from what i’ve heard the film does not address downwinders, does not have a singular japanese person in it, and exploited our museums by claiming photos on loan for personal use (meaning they did not have to pay a penny to use them in the film despite being a multi-million dollar production).
I was studying physics at the university and my hero, a professor, refused to teach the Coriolis force because it’s primarily used to calculate missile weapon trajectories. There are many people who are scientists who fundamentally disagreed that the bomb was developed and my fear was that this movie would portray people who created a humanitarian crisis as heroes.
I just want Japanese people to know that there are dissenting scientists here. The Hiroshima memorial museum and the cranes there are a site most Japanese school children go to as a pilgrimage and they also fold cranes to remember.
I’m really confused by this comment because the Coriolis force is crucial to meteorology, oceanography, and many other peaceful fields that have nothing to do with missile trajectories. Not teaching it would leave students unprepared for their future careers, and I’m skeptical a real professor would do this.
^ there is almost nothing ever in physics that is only useful in making weapons.
And tbh even if that were currently true, refusing to teach principles of motion because of how it is used would be alarmingly unethical as well as completely futile against the development of weapons. For a start no rational physics professor would just assume that it could only ever be used for missiles, and this would be risking causing any number of tragedies. Also, everything is connected and refusal to explain something like this just puts people's understanding on the backfoot.
Not to mention this isnt going to stop weapons building and I dont think anything would be improved by having miscalculated missile trajectories.
