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# didn,t noble
invent dynamite?
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 23:35, archived)
# yes and blew up many assistants and relatives
that's the precise reason he created the Peace Prize, as a sort of karmic balance/guilt thing.
Alfred was his name.
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 23:37, archived)
# I believe it was his brother he blew up.
Bummer.
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 23:38, archived)
# he was great, wasn't he?
scandinavians often are
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 23:39, archived)
# yes
he intended it only for use in mining, and was rather horrified when he saw it becoming used as a weapon. so he established the nobel prizes so that he would be remembered as having a positive legacy, and not as some vile fuck.
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 23:38, archived)
# Yes he did...
...but he was so dissilusioned about the evil things his invention was used for, he used his profits to set up prizes to promote good things. Like peace.
(, Wed 22 Jan 2003, 23:40, archived)