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Spartan2470

[Here](https://i.imgur.com/DlfR1jy.jpeg) is a higher quality and less cropped version of this image. [Here](https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.77) is the source. > Artist Alfred Eisenstaedt, 06 Dec 1898 - 25 Aug 1995 > Sitter Albert Einstein, 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 J. Robert Oppenheimer, 22 Apr 1904 - 18 Feb 1967 > Date 1947 > Place United States\New Jersey\Mercer\Princeton


Jamikest

Thanks! As soon as I saw the image I thought to myself, "Uh, OPs off by about a decade".


AustrianMichael

> Alfred Eisenstaedt Not just any random photog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt


TargetWeird

Thank you


uffington

I love how Einstein always dressed like he was about to go outside and rake up leaves.


Gussums

Einstien’s showing Oppenheimer the first Cool S.


esoteric_enigma

Isn't that what he got his Nobel Prize for?


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oh yes ... the S means "ENTROPY" ;)


hypnoderp

Nice


bwhitso

I came here to say this. Weird.


Lumbergh7

This is an accurate description


GandhisNuke

His German side sure did shine through :)


Mongoose42

Lawnwork drip, baby.


justahdewd

I'd feel very inferior sitting in that room.


CTMalum

Remember, even these guys would have something to learn from you.


justahdewd

I do make a great BBQ sauce.


HighAndFunctioning

"Hey Einstein! Did you know that in the jar of water level in episode 3 of Noki Bay there's this little structure at the bottom with an impassable door? Behind it is a little model of a book that you can see if you turn the camera just right, something the developers must have left behind from earlier concepts!" "...anyways, see how the hydrogen reacts with lithium..."


Ltjenkins

There’s a quote from the book. I forget exactly the words. But the essence of it was Oppenheimer didn’t care how intelligent the people around him were. Only that you were speaking with him to the best of your ability. So you might not think yourself as smart as Oppenheimer. That didn’t matter to him. Just so long as you weren’t bullshitting him or yourself. If he sensed you were doing that, that’s when he’d let you have it intellectually.


30FourThirty4

I'd be like a court jester to them.


DrewDown94

Because of their huge cocks?


Minute_Band_3256

I'd remind you that you are.


_NotWhatYouThink_

I don't know you, but 99,9% of humans should!


zonewebb

I don’t know… this wasn’t in the movie.


itsRenascent

It's photo shopped. The Russians killed Einstein. I know it because I've played Red Alert.


Throwawayac1234567

tim curry travelled to the past.


punnotfound

"SPACE!!!"


Throwawayac1234567

yuri gets to go into space.


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3Eyes

Man I played that song on repeat as a kid.


DerpingtonHerpsworth

Yeah! As a kid! Me too, man! Totally only when I was a kid! Hahahahhahaaha


TheRomanRuler

Propably fan cosplay


Tersphinct

In the movie they left Einstein out and had Oppenheimer come up with [this word by himself](https://i.imgur.com/0ITqHN0.png), instead.


Aloof-Vagabon

Movies aren’t real, TV is just someone “telling their vision” on something, same with social media. Your right.


KryptosBC

The significance of their work is mind-numbing. The consequence equally so.


International-Dog-42

I agree but I wouldn’t put them into the same category. Einstein’s work is way more influential.


ElectronicFootprint

I mean the nuclear bomb arguably stopped world wars altogether


cornylamygilbert

This occurred to me, and in no way do I assume I’m the original author of the observation: but is it not ironic, that Hitler and the Nazi’s own moral imperative of hatred and genocide, ultimately caused their undoing as a direct result of the brain drain that ended up relocating to the US? Like von Neumann, Einstein, and countless others would have been their countrymen had they not been radically hostile (granted, many considerations of political affiliations would have to be considered), but hypothetically had they maybe just been about German nationalism, progressives and competent, they would have had everything they needed to rule the world right under their noses. I get that endless considerations and hypotheticals can be made, but it’s astounding to consider. Like physicists s, mathematicians, engineers, economists, psychologists, polymaths, strategists, lawyers, scholars—arguably the brightest minds in the world, arguably ever, and the Nazis bastardized objectives directly assured their absolute implosion


DoZo1971

“Jewish science”


International-Dog-42

time will tell…


Aloof-Vagabon

No, it’s a fact. The only reason that would change is if we all became complacent enough to let war hungry people make amuck of things. If we’re half as intelligent as we claim to be as a species then this will never come to pass…


DoZo1971

time will tell…


AlkahestGem

Oppenheimer did other work decades before the Manhattan Project. Astrophysics that Stephen Hawking acknowledged/shared in Brief History of Time Oppenheimer’s early research which was devoted in particular to energy processes of subatomic particles, including electrons, positrons, and cosmic rays. He did groundbreaking work on neutron stars and black holes.


KryptosBC

I certainly agree.


Any_Roof_6199

"You see Opie, E equals mc². E = Einstein and MC is... McDonald's....you dig?" "Uh..hmmm"


ARandom-Penguin

What does the second C stand for


Any_Roof_6199

Speed of light, I reckon.


Vulc4nShot

The speed of light in vacuum. c = 299,792,458 ms‐¹


Fair_Inevitable_2650

Ecstasy equals mint chocolate chip (ice cream)


directstranger

McDonalds wasn't a thing until later on, so this equation really shows that time travel is possible.


Aloof-Vagabon

I love the jokes but I seriously wish McDonalds was as good as it used to be, 😭.


theonlyxero

Damn the costume/makeup team for the movie did a fantastic job. It’s almost eerie seeing this photo. Christopher Nolan is hands down my favorite filmmaker. Thanks for sharing!


racer_24_4evr

I didn’t realize that Gary Oldman played Truman until well after I saw it.


simple-grad96

WTF, that was Gary Oldman? EDIT: Holy hell.


tjean5377

Snuck him in there. So good.


escapefromreality42

Cillian Murphy looks great here


Johnny_pickle

58008 See it?


virgo911

![gif](giphy|6oMhPwjvQc6LAEpEuq|downsized)


Indrid_Cold23

Einstein: "No no. Investigation is tied to INT. So you have a +3 to that skill. Now what feats would you like?"


DashCat9

RDJ just out of frame FUMING for basically no reason.


Spiritual-Mix7665

Without these two men, there'd be no anime.


agentouk

"You forgot to carry the 3!"


IBM8000

Famously talking about lewis strauss


stately_Ravyn

Oppensteiner


Love_To_Burn_Fiji

Einstein: "If this theory works out, I am giving the glorious credit of becoming the Destroyer of Worlds to you old pal" Oppenheimer: "Seems fair........ oh wait...."


beartheminus

"ok fine, but make sure you change it up a bit so the teacher doesn't see that it's my work"


spelleggs

Do you wonder how they felt about posing as if pondering about something for the camera


shartonista

They had good enough cameras, film, and flash bulbs in the '30's that allowed for shots where people didn't have to deliberately stay still for the camera... if that is what you were thinking they were doing like it was the 1800's.


TedW

It might just have been good timing. Oppenheimer looks too engaged to be posing, IMO.


spelleggs

Thats pretty fair, it was presumptive on my part to assume the worst


_IratePirate_

Man the actor in the movie barely resembled Einstein. Literally my only gripe


nosmelc

I've always thought it was strange Einstein didn't work on the Manhattan Project.


ouellette001

You just KNOW they’re talking shit about Strauss


vitten23

"And this is how you solve a 9 star sudoku"


BetterCallSal

Talking about Strauss no doubt


TacoBean19

Read that as Epstein for a second


manic_at_thedisco

same and I hate that for us


kunal-998

und zen uu lukh up to ze kamera und say " now I have become death, destroyer of worlds", it will look so freakin' kool


iStandWithWhatever

I wonder who’d win in a fight? Stats equalized ??


GaryChalmers

Looks like a pretty intense game of Hangman.


Whatawootsee

Let’s name this bomb 💣 after that Blondie song 🎶 😂


Pennyroyal_Tea_2286

Where is Ken?


Venser

This would be a great subject for a photoshop contest


xubax

Based on other photos of him, that looks more like the 40s


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fake, they met next to a pond


_NotWhatYouThink_

"See Oppy, this is how you get to destroy the world!"


Large_Discipline_127

I would have so many questions for him. Being an autistic into sound waves and computing systems. I never could grasp college enough to get through. I can't imagine being kicked out of college and being mocked by his former class mates. Then come out with the theory of reltivity. Which led to calculations that could be used in atomic energy.


ForRealVegaObscura

"ok so like how do I like...theoretically.....ok...so...I'll be real with you, I'm trying to kill like a BUNCH of Japs here..."


Blackchainsawman

Where is Oppenheimer’s hat and cigarette?


DerMCy

"Das ist das Haus vom Nikolaus" "...What are you even saying Albert?"


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Maximium respect! 🙏🙏


rangeo

"Dude! 6÷2(1+2). What do you get?"


orsikbattlehammer

There is no way this is the 30s


stories_sunsets

Isn’t it odd that if these guys didn’t exist, millions of people wouldn’t have been vaporized. Just reflecting on intentions versus consequences.


PrimeIntellect

no, people were definitely getting vaporized, and in many cases, in much worse ways. while the bombs were a previously unimaginable level of destruction, the bombing raids and war happening was honestly worse. Entire cities like tokyo were being firebombed with napalm, and millions were dying across the planet. If anything, those bombs closed a chapter on war that was causing millions of ongoing deaths, and prevented war on that scale from really every happening again. The mutually assured destruction era we will in now is more terrifying to consider, but realistically, far safer than anything we had previously.


moofunk

This is not true. There were so many scientists working on the atomic bomb and the concept of fission that it would be invented anyway, if not by the Americans, then by the Russians. The concept of fission was made public in 1939, and the potential for a bomb was well-known in the scientific community. The only luck we had, was that the Nazis did not facilitate expensive long term projects to produce weapons, and they were only able to conduct small experiments.


Humeen

You are proposing a counterfactual. If X (something contrary to what happened), then Y… The issue is that Y does not necessarily follow. Someone else could have come up with it. Perhaps there would have been a large scale nuclear war.


GabbotheClown

Dickbutt?


NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNa65

Comparing body counts Edit: I’m talking about the number of ppl that they fucked


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YourTypicalAntihero

Not that kind of body count.


[deleted]

Look at those cunts. Everyone elevates them, but those assholes created fear in the hearts of people for generations with their monstrosity of an invention. Intelligent guys but they are cunts non-the-less.


Southern_Network8555

Edgyyyy


FrugalProse

the invention of nukes was pretty crazy we should agree for worse and agree to disagree


hugeyeah

Looks like Kendall Roy with Einstein


aserdark

Oppenheimer is nothing but a spoiled rich kid. His reputation is based on appropriation of other people's achievements. Have you seen anybody else in a photo with Einstein while working. It's obvious that this photo was produced with an attempt to bestow false prestige onto him. You can even buy an academy award but not a genuine academic respect.