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Sometimes nuclear physics is easier than European geography.

How hard is it to tell Slovenia and Slovakia apart? So hard that even nuclear engineers don’t notice the difference.

(Thanks Mark!)

Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 to The Eternal Slovenia/Slovakia Mix-Up

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  • 1

    I sent a mail to the editor. let`s see what happens ;)

         by domen on January 17, 2007 at 8:19 am

  • 2

    Not again :)

         by dingomatic on January 17, 2007 at 8:30 am

  • 3

    I’m sure that your letter will end up in his junk box if you didn’t make a lot of refferences to enriched uranium, plutonium or gpraphite rods… On the other hand, if you did, your mail was picked up by the NSA and never reached the editor anyway :)

         by pengovsky on January 17, 2007 at 8:36 am

  • 4

    Nuclear physicists, huh? Now if you dredge up a brain surgeon magazine article with a mix-up somewhere, we can finaly just cave in and merge with Slovakia. If the brightest minds of this planet can’t tell us apart, that’s a good sign that we’re doing something wrong…

         by Cornelius on January 17, 2007 at 11:06 am

  • 5

    How about a new slogan: “Enriched Slovenia! You’ll leave glowing!”

         by pengovsky on January 17, 2007 at 12:17 pm

  • 6

    For nuclear physicists, Slovenia must be a tiny particle spinning on its own somewhere near the middle of… of… well things. Near Slovakia.

         by alcessa on January 17, 2007 at 12:26 pm

  • 7

    Yup, that confirms they’re geniuses alright :P

         by ARF on January 17, 2007 at 12:28 pm

  • 8

    @alcessa: but that depends on whether it is a forward or a backward spinning particle…

         by pengovsky on January 17, 2007 at 2:15 pm

  • 9

    Well, Pengovsky, what’s your prediction? As far as I know, it is the eye of the observer that determines (some of) the characteristics of a particle…

         by alcessa on January 17, 2007 at 2:38 pm

  • 10

    Indeed… But I despite all the brouhaha about Slovenia spinning forward, I still thing we’re spinning backward. But as you so eloquently put it… I think it depends on whether you look from top or from the bottom :)

         by pengovsky on January 17, 2007 at 2:45 pm

  • 11

    I think we may be doing both at the same time. Some parts are running or stumbling forward, others are clinging to the past or pacing backwards. No wonder it is difficult to find us :-)

         by alcessa on January 17, 2007 at 3:01 pm

  • 12

    This is priceless!

         by Katja on January 17, 2007 at 6:50 pm

  • 13

    Seems to have been corrected now. Does Slovenia have nukes too?

         by MiGrant on January 19, 2007 at 2:29 am

  • 14

    MiGrant: one, though we own just a half of it

         by Igor on January 19, 2007 at 6:53 pm

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