“A NASA astronaut, Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak, has been charged with the attempted murder of a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut.”
I could not resist bringing this to the Professor’s attention. It involved a person from the world of science and technology, a person of proven intelligence, and a person who, not unlike the Professor himself, liked to have fun with “distractions”. Were it not so seriously violent a situation then the fact that this was a female would cause the professor to chuckle. On the one hand he had an old world upbringing about things like “woman’s work.” On the other hand he was a great supporter of the efforts of individual women who chose to do “men’s work.” Einstein had fun “pressing people’s buttons” with all kinds of devil’s-advocates style comments when it came to things like these, but his actions always supported one idea: Humans, and human intellects, all eventually embody potentials for greatness and folly no matter what outer body houses that human mind.
After reading this article I reminded “him” (or the personification thereof as described in my opening postings) of something he once said: “Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do– but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.”
His repsonse was along these lines: Now falling in love may not be stupid in and of itself, but it cetainly has caused people to do many stupid things, as in the case of this well educated, married mother of three! I have always been the expert witness defending any accusations against gravity as an accomplice in these acts. In this case it seems the woman may actually have fallen in love with a co-worker while in zero G, so along with the expert witness gravitation indeed has an alibi!!!
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