@naught101 @tillianisafox As a professional, I've always found that while communicating one's findings is critical to this process (it indeed straddles finding out and fucking around, as many people discover when they are researching their thesis introduction), the actual publishing process is completely tangential & momentum-stopping.

Hmm. I think this could turn into a full-fledged rant and resolution to do more preprint self-archiving. Will spare you more.

@tillianisafox By the way, there's a lot of wrong information out there on YouTube etc. about what happened and what went wrong. If you want an explanation let me know.

In any case, the explosion yielded about twice the output expected so a lot of unexpected damage was done. Nobody was amused. This test scared the crap out of everybody including the Russians and resulted in a careful re-examination of the whole nuclear weapons program.

@tillianisafox @phillip

The finding out is critical, but one has to be clear about the hypothesis, even hypotheses, if you are really out here eff-ing around.

To find out, one must be open to the possibility of finding out.

If my logic is correct, this means dumbasses fall short not because they do not-hot ish, but because they think the eff-ing around is the science.

I'm applying this to so many areas, and can confirm this holds up quite well outside of a lab.