Something about Hungarians
From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 20:04:45 -0800
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In the old Desert Rat, there were allegations that the aliens spoke
Hungarian or choose to communicate mainly with Hungarians (base on the
claims of Bill Uhouse/Jarod 2). This article on the Rubik's Cube
provides further proof. --GC
Found at: http://www.denizine.com/columnist/malcolm/100498.htm
Thanks to: ZElston@aol.com (Zac Elston)
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The great Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi was once asked if he
believed in extraterrestrials. "Sure I do," he said. "I know a lot of
them personally. They're called Hungarians."
What Fermi was saying was not that Hungarians are strange, though they
are; what he meant to say was that Hungarians are too damn smart to be
human. If you've studied the history at all, you know that
20th-century physics and mathematics are pretty much Hungarian
conspiracies, not to speak of music and cinema (Szell, Solti, Ormandy,
Dohnanyi: can even the Germans throw up four greater 20th-century
orchestral conductors?). The currency trader George Soros, perhaps the
single most powerful man in existence, is a Hungarian. Ernie Kovacs,
the most cerebral and inventive television comedian who ever lived,
was a Hungarian. You've used a Schick razor? Schick was Hungarian.
You've heard a ballpoint pen called a "biro"? Biro was Hungarian. A
Hungarian, John von Neumann, invented game theory and was the first to
apply binary numbers to problems in computing. And today, who
manufactures the brains for the computers I'm using to type this and
you're using to read it? That's right--Intel, a company founded by
crypto-Hungarian Andrew Grove.
Hungarians are especially ubiquitous in math; crack a college math
textbook, and you'll most likely find a smattering of Frenchmen, a
rather greater number of Germans, a few Brits and Japanese, and, most
of all, Hungarians--Hungarians beyond counting, except by Hungarians,
who are better at this sort of thing than we mere mortals. Von
Neumann, Bolyai, Kalman, Polya, Turan, Szego, Peter, Erdos, Reisz,
Fejer...the torrent of goulash never ends...
...which is why I think Erno Rubik must be a pretty sad guy, even
though he's unbelievably rich. He's a math professor and all that, but
what are they going to put on his tombstone? Can he claim to be
"Father of the hydrogen bomb," like his countryman Edward Teller? Can
he call himself "Director of Casablanca, the most beloved of all
Hollywood films," like Michael Curtiz? Can he say "I was the greatest
war photographer of the 20th century," like Robert Capa? No. He's
going to have that little cube on his tombstone. In fact, his
tombstone is probably going to be shaped like a Rubik's Cube.
"But, Malcolm," I hear you saying, "Erno Rubik is one of the
wealthiest men in Hungary! What makes you think he's sad?" Well, take
a look for yourself at his website, which is at www.rubiks.com. "As
was to be expected, after the sale of over 100 million puzzles in
three years, the Cube went out of fashion," recalls the great man,
looking back to his annus horribilis of 1984. "Although it disappeared
from the shops for a while, the Cube never lost the affection of the
puzzlers once they got it into their hands. Now I am happy to say the
Cube is again back in the shops, taking its rightful place among the
permanent classics in company with a whole range of puzzles and games
which I have created in the meanwhile. With the increasing importance
of the Net and the coming of age of a whole new generation of Cubers,
I feel this is the right time to establish my own official Rubik site
on this unique road junction of the information highway."
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The article goes on to discuss the author's tortured relationship with
the Rubik's Cube.
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Index: UFO Research in Hungary (#17)
Created: Oct 9, 1998
