Friday, January 11, 2008
A Martyr to Science
Thought Experiments salutes this hero, who gave his life to establish once and for all that white spirit is indeed flammable, thereby silencing the doubters and scoffers. Note too his modest summing-up: 'I'm all right. I just want a fag and a beer.'
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
he looked good for 43 - and a sort of chaplinesque expression, quite appropriate to the story.
ReplyDelete"it was an act of possible bravado" - love it!
ReplyDeleteHe's already been nominated for a Darwin Award.
ReplyDeleteGiven the hard, testable, objective evidence before him, it was a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Sadly, he forgot science is self-correcting.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if perhaps he was a pissed up junkie with mental problems... not really a laugh after all. I didnt know we did cruel and heartless here - the man died for Gods sake.
ReplyDeleteWe all have to die, Mutley, why not embrace it?
ReplyDeleteWell, it really was an idiotic thing to do. It's hard not to laugh, Mutley. Also, I thought the guy was a teenager by the photo. Hard to believe the dude was 43 years old. I'm amazed he lived so long, considering his propensity for dangerous fact-finding missions.
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