Reposted by Barney LuttbegDavid Grimm @david-grimm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Once you read the first paragraph, you won't want to stop. Excellent story by @richardastone.bsky.social for @science.orgscience.orgNazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes revealExperimental reactor needed much more uranium and heavy water than the country could muster 04617
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026But don't call it magic, because witches are mouthy. 011
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Do I want to know what the broken man thinks "ACTG" means? 210
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It's a shame that the vile Iranian leadership is more strategic than the vile US leadership. 020
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Love him or hate him, the man can expel a tremendous amount of smoke. 030
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Came here for this, but personally I kind of despise PCA 010
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Tell Mr. Net -20% to go spend his time destroying FIFA 010
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Lindsey went to his grave working on those Iranian tariffs. 030
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Good, at first I thought it meant he had no wrist. 011
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Our episodes of Jeopardy saved on the cloud are the problem. 000
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The fact they've been trying to sell this line for months and they keep doing it despite it getting them nowhere is good indication they have nothing else 000
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026"who the hell can tell me to carry an umbrella? i'm an adult man!" 040
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026We're much better off having him than having a Republican in that seat 110
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026"Teddy Roosevelt, with tears in his eyes, said Mr. President, the greatest President ever, he was a very smart guy... tough guy. I want to thank you for making American great again. Boy, that guy had big teeth. Great teeth. The greatest teeth, many say." 000
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I think this is like the best rock band question and you exclude pizza since it is the obvious answer. Potatoes au Gratin 120
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026What is bet hedging? Why do I care about the geometric mean? 110
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026If I had bet on one person that has eaten a dog, my money would be on RFK Jr. 280
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The King of Thrash Talk, Larry Bird, is a boomer 000
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 21/06/2026As they say, "if you can score with it, then it counts". 000
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It's a shame Sen. Inhofe isn't still alive to jump into it 100
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The Republican didn't make the run-off that hasn't yet happened. 100
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Will "yes, but it's context dependent" win or lose the bet? 120
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Wonder how he gets his head around that agnostic is fine, but not atheist. 110
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026While the family discusses finally putting grandpa into a care facility. 040
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The answer is damn easy when you don't use AI, but he can't imagine such a thing. 000
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Wichita, Kansas: the "Air Capital of the World". www.aircapitaloftheworld.comaircapitaloftheworld.comAir Capital of the World 000
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Several Democrats won statewide elections in Texas in 1994. He was born in 1989. 000
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Had to google (need a new verb) Transnistrian 000
Barney Luttbeg @barneyluttbeg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026It is the same enforcement as any academic integrity (the original AI) case. The process has always been messy, but it has existed for decades. 010