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It's a little sad when you have to divert your best and brightest away from advancing the state of civilization, to merely defending what you already have. Ob
by berti 8y ago
It's a little sad when you have to divert your best and brightest away from advancing the state of civilization, to merely defending what you already have.
Obviously that will still advance the state of the art in some areas.
- manigandham 8y agoThe military has been behind most of the technological advances in society, and is directly behind the birth of Silicon Valley itself.
- codeisawesome 8y agoI don’t have facts on hand to back this up, but I think even the space race which advanced everyone so much, was a result of militaristic competition
- manigandham 8y agoYes, that is well known now. The cold-war is the only reason we went to the moon and we are still benefiting from that technology today.
- FearOfReprisal 8y ago's/defending what you already have/stealing what others have/g'