Guest he did. He wrote a moment moyer called my several lives. The only problem was, he was great man it and was a dull bach because he was a button down yankee and didnt reveal too many secrets. I. My graph had an extraordinary career because he served the country in three wars essentially, two hot and one cold. He helped make the first weapon of mass destruction poison gas, for the chemical war service during world war 1. He then became president of harvard, and was a leading educatear, but then because of his wartime experience, and because he was a brilliant chemist by training, he ended up being recruited by roosevelt to be a scientific general of world war ii and was in charge, again, of all chemical weapons, but that included a new weapon, the bomb, and he ended up overseeing the Manhattan Project laboratory at los alamos where they built the first atomic bomb. And then he became one of the key architects of our Cold War Nuclear policy. He advised roosevelt during the war and th
One but if not incredibly compelling, a very lively and engaging had a difficult time putting down. Would you please encapsulate the life of your grandfather briefly . Because he seems to have compressed four four owe five s into one lifetime. Guest he did pick in fact, to book a memoir called my several lives. The only problem with it, it was, the New York Times declared he was a great man and he it was a dull book turkey didnt me secrets. My grandfather had an extraordinary career because he served the country in three wars essentially, too hot and one cold. He helped make the first weapon of mass destruction poison gas for the chemical war service during world war i. He then became president of harvard and was a leading educator but then because of his wartime experience and because he was a brilliant chemist by training, he ended up being recruited by roosevelt to be one of scientific journals of world war ii. He was in charge again of all chemical weapons but that included a new w
Actually been in space and that is astronaut Leland Melvin and, mr. Melvin, you write that your book is called chasing space and you write that it had all begun with a dropped pass. Yeah, exactly. A dropped path, i pass. I block a lot and we were at a homecoming game. The ball was perfectly thrown in the game and i dropped a touchdown pass in my hands and the thing is a scout was there from the university of richmond looking to see if i could play football for the team. He walked out of the stadium, my coach green believed in me, this time i caught the ball, that one catch resulted in 180,000dollar scholarship to the university of richmond because the coach said he didnt give up, he kept going. That was the grits and the first and the second chance. How did you get from playing from the university of richmond spiders to Space Shuttle missions . I think the turning of season from 010 around to 38 in playoffs brought the College Scout and then all of the hard work and dedication and disc
And no one saw it. I started writing the book and i asked my question again. Why are you requesting that question . And answer became clear to me, for two reasons, the first happened just last year. I think 2016 was the year when we started living 51 of our lives in cyberspace. Thats where we went to get a news, buy a book, buy a car, meet with our friends, find a date, find a spouse, we are now living in the developed world at least 51 of our lives in cyberspace. My definition of cyberspace its a realm where we are all connected and no one is in charge. Its the ultimate god free realm, no stoplights, no police, no ethics code, no 1800please stop putin from hacking my elections. We are living our lives in a realm thats ethics and godfree. And at the same time because of these accelerated powers ive written about, we are now standing at a moral intersections we have never stood at before as human species. One country could kill all of us post hiroshima, im glad it was mind. I believe we
Homecoming game. I was running down the sideline. It was perfectly thrown in myte hands. And i lost the touchdown pass in my hands. In the thing is a scout was there for the university of richmond. He walked out of the stadium my coach jb greene believed in me. This time i caught the ball. That one catch resulted in a hundred 80,000 scholarship to the university of richmond. It was a great in the perseverance. In the second chance. How did you get from plane from the university of richmond spiders to the spacee Shuttle Missions. I think the turning of season to zero and ten i think the turning of season to zero and ten it brought some pro scouts down. And all of the hard work and dedication and discipline i went to work for nasa a friend of mine gave me an application a said you would be a great the astronaut i said yeah right. That same year and it filled i didnt fill the application out someone else did. The if that guy can it get and i can in i can get in. The competition and then b