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Helped keep the peace between the USSR and the USA through the cold war, by giving them something to collaborate on and so build some trust and keep communicati
by elektromekatron 11y ago
Helped keep the peace between the USSR and the USA through the cold war, by giving them something to collaborate on and so build some trust and keep communication going.
edit - there is other stuff as well, but 'peace' seemed the best option to go with given the way you phrased the question - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Hubble_Images_of_M100_Before_and_After_Mirror_Repair_-_GPN-2002-000064.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Hubble_I...
- eru 11y agoOk, that's an interesting hypothesis. How can we falsify / verify it? (One competing hypothesis is `nukes kept the peace'.)
- elektromekatron 11y agoWell, we can imagine another world where we still have superpowers with nukes pointed at each other but without big civil collaborative science projects going on between them. Both worlds could end up in an all-out nuclear war, but which one do you think is more likely?
- eru 11y agoWe can imagine a lot of things. I was thinking of rather more evidence-based evidence.
- elektromekatron 11y agoWell, without going down the road of trying to find plausible probabilities for imaginary scenarios it is difficult to chip away at either hypothesis, given we do not have a variety of different earths to test on.