nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu (Nanotechnology Newsgroup Nexus) (03/29/89)
I have just received a call from a (previously Very Skeptical) friend in a nationally known research lab who says that people at Los Alamos have succeeding in duplicating Fleischman & Pons' results. "Looks like it's real after all." He says the scientific community is "abuzz" with the news. I'm reminded to some extent of the story of how after the Wright brothers first flew, they were virtually ignored by the world at large, and particularly the scientific community, who had seen so many hoaxes and failed attempts. Then a few years later a respected European scientist was travelling through Ohio, when in the fields near Dayton he saw this huge creature in the air. "My God, what is that thing?" The reply: "Oh, it's just those crazy Wright boys and their flying machine." ... --JoSH