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RE: MystiFACT-or-FICTION response #2 - The Dwarf Planet And The Young Man From Kansas
Oh I didn't know that story. Thus is actually a great story!
Oh I didn't know that story. Thus is actually a great story!
Thanks, I thought so too! How crazy is that? He had no formal education when he built his own telescopic mirrors on a Kansas farm - in the 1920s! Now he may be the first piece of a human being to leave the solar system. It's crazy.
That is indeed amazing. How someone without any knowledge can lead to advances in a given field of science. This is actually hard to conceive today.
Particularly before the internet. I mean, I could buy a CRISPR set online for a few grand and start doing novel things with it off some youtube videos. This guy was busy being shuttled from noplace to nowhere and learned something far more difficult using only analog sources.
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Yep, this was way before the internet era! No clear access to the information (in particular scientific information... and un-information).