When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.
Also, Romney on cold fusion … in 2011 …
I do believe in basic science. I believe in participating in space. I believe in analysis of new sources of energy. I believe in laboratories, looking at ways to conduct electricity with — with cold fusion, if we can come up with it. It was the University of Utah that solved that. We somehow can’t figure out how to duplicate it.
Finance guy. Not STEM.
Steve
Maybe C.P. Snow was more right than I ever knew.
It seems everything Romney says, that you quoted, is largely correct although “solved” is not the appropriate word and Romney doesn’t seem to fully realize the impact of the duplication problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
I remember the days of cold fusion. My sister was studying for her Ph.D. at Caltech at the time. She’s a geologist, so her studies had nothing to do with cold fusion, but she did have a roommate who was part of the Caltech effort to duplicate the finding, so I had advance word, through my sister, that it wasn’t looking good for cold fusion. And I remember taking part in an online discussion where I could see people absolutely convinced that cold fusion was real, and restraining myself to a “We can’t be sure of this finding till it’s been replicated,” because it wouldn’t be right to pass on second hand knowledge that it probably wasn’t going to be replicated.
Well, what do you want from some guy who believes that Jesus hung out with the Mohawks in upstate New York?
One doesn’t expect to replicate a result which is published in the newspaper rather than a science journal.
Back during the foofoorah of cold fusion, I was attending a very STEM-y university.
The profs would make comments about how the Wall Street Journal hat become the Journal of Unrefereed Physics
I believe we all understand this already, don’t we?
But if not:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/mitt-romney-joke-joking-airplane-windows.html
H. M. Stuart
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